NMiF wraps up election coverage with candidate conversations

This week, New Mexico in Focus wraps up the candidate conversations with two congressional incumbents and two Republican challengers.

• Correspondent Russell Contreras asks U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-NM, to speak on an immigration bill that would expand the border wall.
• U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-NM, talks with Politics Correspondent Gwyneth Doland about New Mexico's homeless and housing crisis.
• Challenger Steve Jones tells Gwyneth why his top priority if elected to Congress would be to cut unchecked fiscal spending.
• Congressional candidate Sharon Clahchischilliage tells Gwyneth why she isn't concerned about climate change.

NMiF airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) on Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 3 at 7 a.m. and streaming on the PBS video app.

NMiF Segments

Rep. Gabriel Vasquez on Border Safety, Immigration Reform
Correspondent
Russell Contreras

Guest
U.S. Rep. Gabriel Vasquez, D-NM

Rep. Melanie Stansbury on NM's Housing Crisis
Correspondent
Gwyneth Doland

Guest
U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-NM

Candidate Steve Jones on Cutting Fiscal Spending
Correspondent
Gwyneth Doland

Guest
Republican Congressional Candidate Steve Jones

Candidate Sharon Clahchischilliage on Climate Change and IVF
Correspondent
Gwyneth Doland

Guest
Republican Congressional Candidate Sharon Clahchischilliage

Host
Lou DiVizio

New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic health, education, and art issues and explores them in-depth with a critical eye to give them context beyond the "news of the moment."

NMPBS Executive Producer, Public Affairs, is Jeff Proctor. New Mexico in Focus's senior producer for public affairs is Lou DiVizio. "Our Land" Senior Producer is Laura Paskus. The producer of New Mexico in Focus is Antonio Sanchez, and co-producer is Kathy Wimmer.

Funding for New Mexico in Focus is provided by the McCune Charitable Foundation and Viewers Like You.

Funding for the Your New Mexico Government Project comes from the Thornburg Foundation and New Mexico Local News Fund.

The Neeper Natural History Programming Fund for KNME-TV provides funding for Our Land: New Mexico's Environmental Past, Present & Future.