Sheinbaum avoids comment on U.S. midterm elections, Digi Mart USA News: During her morning press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum avoided commenting on the possible consequences for Mexico of the U.S. midterm elections, in which Democrats are seeking to regain control of Congress.
She said only that her government will respect whatever the result is.
“We do not offer opinions. Today is the election.
It is not for us to comment today.” She added that the U.S. electoral process does not end in a single day and asked that the results be awaited before anticipating their effects.
Sheinbaum also avoided discussing a possible change in legislative majorities and its implications for Mexico, particularly for the trade agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada (USMCA, known in Mexico as T-MEC). “We will wait for the result and we will respect whatever the result of the election is, and we continue on our path.”
Americans are voting on Tuesday, November 3, to renew all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 Senate seats, and to elect governors in 36 states. Republicans currently control both chambers, so the results will determine whether President Donald Trump keeps his party’s legislative backing or faces a Democratic-majority Congress.
At the same conference, Sheinbaum was asked about the candidacy of Xavier Becerra, the son of Mexican immigrants, who is seeking to become the first Latino elected governor of California. She highlighted the political participation of people of Mexican origin in the United States and said that a possible Becerra governorship would represent greater presence of that community in U.S.
institutions.
“There are 40 million Mexicans who live in the United States, 39, 40, first, second and third generation, and they are part of life in the United States, because they are Mexican Americans.” She also said Mexicans and their descendants take part in U.S. political life through their parties, and that it is positive for them to have representation in government.
Sheinbaum also linked Becerra’s candidacy to the discussion of racism and discrimination against Latinos in the United States. “It breaks with the narrative of far-right groups in the United States against Latinos; the narrative of classism and racism, which has to end anywhere in the world.”
Becerra, born in Sacramento to Mexican parents, served as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden and as California attorney general. In Tuesday’s election he faces Republican Steve Hilton for the governorship, as incumbent Gavin Newsom cannot seek reelection.
If he wins, Becerra would be the first Latino elected governor of California by popular vote in more than 150 years. Romualdo Pacheco, of Mexican descent, held the office in 1875, after then-governor Newton Booth left to join the U.S.
Senate.
