Well, one key is for GOP areas to NOT report the election returns until the Dem areas have. If the GOP goes first, it gives the Dems ample opportunity to manufacture/fix votes in their areas that magically overcome the GOP numbers (the “middle of the night” fraud). Not a guarantee, of course, but it is one way.
The Dems, who control all of state government, are trying to redistrict the state so that Hispanics and Native Americans are predominant in all of the three congressional districts. Many Hispanics in NM-2 mostly supported Trump in 2020 because many work at good paying jobs in the oil patch (which both NM and Fed Dems are trying to distroy). However, Dems want to pull Pub areas and put them in NM-3 which is overwhelmingly Dem. NM-1 (ABQ) has pretty much shifted from purple to blue the past several elections.