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.
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.
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.
The next test of who Democratic voters want to see leading the party will take place Tuesday in southwest Arizona, where three leading candidates are offering competing visions in the primary to fill the late Rep.
While Adelita Grijalva is polling ahead in the CD7 Democratic primary it’s another candidate who’s making all of the headlines in this race: 25-year-old Deja Foxx.