Adelita Grijalva wins the Democratic primary for the siege of the deceased father at Congress

The daughter of the late Democrat representative Raul Grijalva of Arizona took a big step towards succeeding her father in the congress.

The former Pima County supervisor, Adelita Grijalva, won the primary of the Democratic Party in the 7th district of the Arizona Congress, according to the Associated Press.

The young Grijalva dominated four other candidates in the strongly blue district, which extends from Tucson to Yuma and includes almost the entire length of the southern border of the State with Mexico.

Grijalva, 54, appreciated the support of some of the best State Democrats, including senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, the state prosecutor Kris Mayes and the former representative Gabrielle Giffords.

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The supervisor of Pima County, Adelita Grijalva, won a primary of the Democratic Party Congress in Arizona during a special election in the race to succeed his late father, the former representative Raul Grijalva. (Adelita for the Congress Youtube channel)

Grijalva was also supported by two best progressive champions, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York, who both supported Zohran Mamdani in the primary of the New York Democrat.

Deja Foxx, an influencer of 25 -year -old social media and a progressive activist who hoped to follow in the footsteps of Mamdani by winning an astonishing victory and victory in a primary of the Congression of the high -level Democratic Party, failed.

The eyes supported by David Hogg were upset in the main congress of the primary Democratic Party

FOXX, who has become viral in adolescence for having to face the Senator of Republican, Jeff Flake on the issue of reproductive rights, appreciated the support of the firearm crossroads David Hogg, who recently withdrew his post as vice-president of the National Democratic Committee after having turned upside the leaders of the party, long-term infractions.

Deja Foxx, a democratic candidate for the Congress in the special elections of the 7th district of the Arizona Congress, camped on June 28, 2025. (Already campaign Foxx)

Hogg, who campaigned with Foxx during the weekend in the district, predicted that she “would make history in the southwest of Arizona”.

And HOGG compared Foxx’s survey numbers in the last days of the primary campaign to that of Mamdani, the 33 -year -old Ugandan state legislator who exceeded former governor Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates last month to win the Democratic appointment for the mayor of New York.

The former Vice-President of the DNC, David Hogg, campaigned with the Deman Congress candidate Deja Foxx in Arizona on July 12, 2025. (David Hogg)

Similar to the primary of the mayor of New York, the competition in southern Arizona was considered by many political experts as a barometer of the place where the Democratic Party is heading because it deals with longtime divisions between its creation and its foreigner and progressive and moderate wings, as well as generational divisions.

The former state representative, Daniel Hernandez, also affirmed the appointment. He is well known in Arizona for helping to save the life of the former Democrat representative Gabby Giffords during a shooting in 2011 in Tucson, while he was an intern of the deputy.

The Arizona Democratic Raul Grijalva Democrat died in March of the complications linked to the treatment of cancer. (Joshua Roberts / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Aboriginal activist and scholars Jose Malvido Jr. and former health director Patrick Harris Sr. also present themselves for democratic appointment in the majority-HISPANIC district where Democrats are more numerous than the Republicans by a margin of almost two to one.

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More than $ 2 million have been distributed to disseminate advertisements in the Democratic primary, part of the money from external groups.

Adelita Grijalva will now be considered the favorite of the Special Elections of September 23 to serve the last 15 months of the Mandate of the elder Grijalva. He died in March of complications related to cancer treatment.