inrecollection. the landslide win for melanie stansbury in new mexico provides clear evidence of a biden effect. it turns out being on the side of economic recovery, pandemic relief, vaccines and protecting democracy might be a winner with voters. she defeated the republican opponent who ran on crime and tried to paint her as soft on law and order. more than 20 points. and while the decisive victory of course cannot be extram lated, politico reports that it's enough to ease the party's fears of a closer result that could have protended a brutal midterm next year. added this, democrats hailed the comfortable win that the base enthusiasm did not wane and that the gop's doubling down on defunning the police attacks backfired. one of the central arguments on policy that the gop tested as a strategy is the attack after attack against biden and his agenda. it's fallen flat in the polls.