(CNN) Tuesday's special election to represent New Mexico's 1st District in Congress is just one race. Federal special elections, as a group, usually give us a fairly good idea how midterms are going to go. The key to understanding how to read Tuesday's result in that context is that New Mexico's 1st is a heavily Democratic district . Democrat Deb Haaland, now the secretary of the Interior, won the district by 16 points in her 2020 re-election campaign. This heavily Democratic district covering much of Albuquerque just hasn't voted for Republicans recently.

Source: CNN May 31, 2021 13:41 UTC