Deja Foxx, Adelita Grijalva and Arizona
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Adelita Grijalva, daughter of the late Congressman Raúl Grijalva, won Tuesday's Democratic primary in the special election to replace her father, and will advance to this fall’s general election.
Calls for generational change and dissatisfaction with the status quo have been at the center of campaigns by younger candidates. While that has lifted some to victory, others have fallen short.
Adelita Grijalva, a former local elected official, will follow in her father’s footsteps, representing a congressional district in southern Arizona after fending off a challenge built around generational change and winning the Democratic primary in a special election on Tuesday night.
Adelita Grijalva’s landslide win over Deja Foxx shows that real-world connections still matter more than social media influence in politics.
Deja Foxx is one of three major candidates in Tuesday's Democratic primary to replace the late Raúl Grijalva in Congress. See who she is and where she stands in the wave of young Democrats.
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An Arizona special election primary Tuesday to replace the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva is the latest flare-up of the Democratic Party’s clashes over age and experience.
Deja Foxx had a small watch party at Zerai’s International Bar. She presumably lost by a wide margin to Adelita Grijalva in the primary.