The winner of the election triumphed largely thanks to his glamorous, but off-message YouTube influencer wife, and their appearances with music stars. The loser saw her chances fade after video emerged of her in a coaching session with NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere.
It sounds like an election that could have happened in some parts of California, but it was the governorship race in Mexico’s northern border state of Nuevo Leon that proved the most revelatory of Sunday’s congressional, state and local races.
The apparent winner of the race, Samuel Garcia, 33, is a baby-faced former senator whose wife, Mariana Rodriguez,