As of 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, Foxx had not made a public statement on her election loss.
Adelita Grijalva won the primary race for Arizona’s 7th Congressional District—a seat her father, the late Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva had previously held—beating out 25-year-old digital strategist Deja Foxx on Tuesday night.
Newsweek reached out to Foxx via X, formerly Twitter.Why It Matters
Observers considered the race an important signal of grassroots Democratic enthusiasm and generational change within the party, as Grijalva, a former county supervisor, faced off against younger and more progressive challengers.
Foxx, skilled in social media and billing herself as a Gen Z outsider, has pointed to recent Republican House majority advantages, like the passage of President Donald Trump’s „big, beautiful bill“, as reasons to „fight back.
