April 06, 2022 11:21 AM UTC

Who's In, Who's Out for Congress?

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: The Colorado Democratic Party confirmed this afternoon that Charles “Chaz” Tedesco failed to meet the 30% threshold for ballot access in CO-08. Yadira Caraveo is thus the Democratic nominee for CO-08 in 2022.

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Democrats held most of their congressional assemblies on Tuesday, which means we have a pretty good idea of which candidates are going to be on the Primary ballot in June in the various congressional races in Colorado.

We’re still waiting on announcements regarding petition signatures for a few candidates, as well as the results from a handful of GOP assemblies. Republican congressional assemblies in Districts 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 are on Friday, April 8.

CO-01 (Denver)

Democrats

😀 Incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette qualified via assembly
😐 Neil Walia is still waiting on petition verification

Republicans

😮 No Republican candidate has filed to run in this district

CO-02 (North and West Colorado)

Democrats

😀 Incumbent Rep. Joe Neguse qualified via assembly

Republicans

😮 No Republican candidate has filed to run in this district

CO-03 (West and Southern Colorado)

Democrats

 😀 Sol Sandoval qualified via assembly
 😀 Alex Walker qualified via petition
 😀 Adam Frisch qualified via petition
 🙁 State Rep. Don Valdez failed to make threshold at assembly; his campaign is now over.

Republicans

 😐 Incumbent Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert is going through assembly process
 😐 Maria Zimmerman is going through assembly process
 😐 State Sen. Don Coram is still waiting on petition verification

CO-04 (Eastern Plains)

Democrats

😀 Ike McCorkle qualified via assembly

Republicans

😐 Incumbent Rep. Ken Buck is on the ballot via the assembly (but barely)
😐 Bob Lewis is on the ballot after winning the GOP assembly

CO-05 (Colorado Springs)

Democrats

 😀 David Torres qualified via assembly
 😀 Michael Colombe qualified via assembly

Republicans

 😀 State Rep. Dave Williams qualified via assembly
 😀 Incumbent Rep. Doug Lamborn qualified via petition
 😀 Rebecca Keltie qualified via petition

CO-06 (Aurora-ish)

Democrats

 😀 Incumbent Rep. Jason Crow qualified via assembly

Republicans

CO-07 (Jefferson County-ish)

Democrats

 😀 State Sen. Brittany Pettersen qualified via assembly

Republicans

 😀 Tim Reichert qualified via petition
 😐 Erik Aadland failed to qualify via petition but took top line at assembly
  😐 Laurel Imer qualified for the Primary ballot via assembly

CO-08 (North Metro-ish)

Democrats

😀 State Rep. Yadira Caraveo qualified both via petition and assembly
🙁 Adams County Commissioner Chaz Tedesco did not qualify for the ballot via assembly; his campaign is now over

Republicans

😀 Weld County Commissioner Lori Saine qualified via assembly
😀 State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer qualified via petition
😀 Thornton Mayor Jan Kulmann qualified via petition
😀 Tyler Allcorn qualified via petition
🙁 Jewels Gray failed to qualify via assembly; her campaign is over pending petition review