This post was originally published on Politico.

Prospective presidential candidates are known to chew over pork chops on a stick at Iowa’s iconic State Fair. They gather in South Carolina at Rep. Jim Clyburn’s “World Famous Fish Fry.” And they’re all over New Hampshire … well, any chance they get.

New Mexico today is entering the convening conversation with chicharrón at the “Matanza.”

In the long tradition of major state gatherings that have become dead giveaways of politicians’ presidential ambitions, New Mexico is formally stepping into the political fray, with an inaugural “Fourth in the Nation Matanza Rally” hosted by Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján designed to introduce the

Author: By Ali Bianco