January 30, 2026 09:48 AM UTC

Will Colorado Republicans Support Trump's MEGA Election Bomb?

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• by: Colorado Pols

As FOX News reported to its faithful flock yesterday, House Republicans have answered President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theory-driven demands for sweeping changes to elections, including a prohibition of the all-mail-ballot election system Colorado enacted back in 2013 that led to record-setting levels of voter participation.

And we can’t have that, so:

House Republicans are rolling out a massive election overhaul package ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, including new voter ID requirements as well as limitations on how and when votes are cast…

Casting a ballot in federal elections would also require a photo ID. Progressive Democrats and groups like the League of Women Voters have argued that photo ID laws disenfranchise minority voters, while the Heritage Foundation pointed out that it’s shown to be popular across multiple public polls.

The part that most directly impacts Colorado elections:

New guardrails on mail-in ballots include a ban on universal mail-in ballots — meaning voters would have to specifically request one to receive it — while also requiring mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day to count and banning “ballot harvesting” by third parties aiming to deliver them to poll centers.

As for the motive? Even Fox News is honest about that:

The new legislation comes ahead of what’s expected to be a difficult midterm election season for Republicans. [Pols emphasis]

The so-called “Make Elections Great Again Act” is at its core a far-right vote suppression wish list, with no reason to exist other than to reduce turnout of millions of voters who tend to vote Democratic. The good news is that even if the legislation does make it out of the narrowly Republican-controlled U.S. House, there almost certainly is not enough crossover Democratic support in the Senate to send the bill to President Trump’s desk.

The question for Colorado’s four–three if you write off Lauren Boebert–Republican members of Congress is this: are you willing to vote against the election system to which you owe your own office? While Trump and his election denialist allies have raged against mail ballots, in Colorado it is Republican county clerks and a few brave Republican elected officials who have led the pushback against Trump’s misinformation.

It would take just a few Republicans who know better in the House to scuttle this legislation before it gains any traction. That’s important since even if the bill can’t pass the Senate, Trump and loser Republicans will almost certainly invoke its failure to justify not accepting the results of the election in November in the likely event they take heavy losses.

The sooner this bill is stamped out, the safer the 2026 elections will be.

Here’s another chance for our Republican members of Congress to prove they represent Colorado and not Donald Trump.