San Antonio mayor-elect Gina Ortiz Jones tells Axios she's not waiting to be sworn in to start tackling issues like a potential new Spurs arena, an expected budget deficit and the impact of Trump administration policies.

Jones, who served in the Biden administration, defeated Rolando Pablos, a former Texas secretary of state, in a high-profile, bitterly partisan contest.

The highly contested mayoral race in San Antonio narrowed from 27 candidates to a pair of runoff candidates. Gina Ortiz Jones leads the mayoral race after early voting totals were tallied with 52 percent of the vote to Rolando Pablos' 48 percent.