Adelita Grijalva wins her late father’s House seat in Arizona special election

Grijalva will be state's first Latina in Congress, shrinking Republicans' House majority even further

Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late progressive congressman Raul Grijalva, won a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat left open when her father died earlier this year.

Grijalva faced Republican challenger Daniel Butierez in the heavily blue seventh district in Arizona, which covers the southern parts of the state and the borderland areas.