Trump’s stop in a blue state could strengthen Republican efforts to flip a Democratic-held Senate seat.

New Mexico Republican Senate candidate says former President Trump a stop in the blue-leaning southwestern state on Thursday “will give our state a big boost.”

Nella Domenici, 2024 Republican Party Senate candidate and the daughter of New Mexico’s last Republican senator, is trying to defeat Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich, who is seeking a third six-year term in November as her party works to regain its majority in the chamber.

“Trump will definitely help us with independents,” Domenici predicted in an interview with Fox News Digital ahead of the former president’s visit to the state.

Five days before Election Day next Tuesday, the former president is making a rare retreat from the campaign trail in seven critical battleground states for the White House that will likely determine whether Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris win the 2024 election.

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It’s been two decades since the Republican held New Mexico in the presidential elections. You have to go back to President George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004.

There haven’t been many polls in New Mexico, but the most recent polls show Harris leading Trump by single digits, although one poll suggests a tighter race for the state’s five electoral votes.

Time has become such a precious commodity in presidential campaigns, and the clock is ticking fast. Election day New Mexico Democrats say Trump’s trip to the state, his first in five years, is a fool’s errand.

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“Trump is wasting his time coming to our state when polls show New Mexicans are determined to once again reject his MAGA extremism and divisive rhetoric,” New Mexico Democratic Party spokesman Daniel Garcia said in a statement.

And referencing the former president’s stop in Albuquerque on Oct. 31, Garcia verbally criticized Trump, declaring that “a round orange mass will be in Albuquerque on Halloween, and we’re not talking about pumpkin.”

But Domenici, who is trying to close the gap with Heinrich, sees the benefits of Trump stopping at the airport in Albuquerque, the state’s largest city.

“People are very happy that Trump came here,” she told Fox News. “It’s definitely a big concern for the base, and base is kind of a growing term.”

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Domenici argued that “there are so many problems in our state that finally people are saying, ‘I’m giving up on the Democrats and I want to be a Republican,’ and that’s happening every day, every week in this race.”

“Many Latino Democrats are coming over to our side. They are angry that the cost of living is so high. They are angry because crime is everywhere. At night you can’t even put gas in your car,” Domenici said. “People have a big incentive to vote Republican.”

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Domenici has years of experience in the financial industry at Bridgewater Associates (where she served as CFO), Credit Suisse and Citadel Investment group.

She is also the daughter of the late longtime Republican Sen. Pete Domenici, who served in the Senate for 36 years before retiring in early 2009 at the end of his sixth term.

The legacy of her father, who died in 2017, gives the younger Domenici a powerful political brand and widespread visibility in New Mexico.

“My family’s name helped me a lot. This is because my father’s legacy is so highly valued here for many generations,” she emphasized. “Many people still have very warm hearts for him.”

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