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July 10, 2026 10:49 AM UTC

Enough With The Sour Grapes Already, Heidi Henkel Edition

Rep. Kenny Nguyen (D-Broomfield).

After the most hard-fought and in some cases acrimonious Democratic primary election in Colorado in many years, there’s been a push by state party leadership to project a unified front for the general election, in which the winners of the June 30th primary are in most cases expected to roll to victory in a Democratic wave.

But it would appear that in at least one state legislative race, the loser of the Democratic primary doesn’t want to make nice with the winner. Here’s Heidi Henkel, whose defeat at the hands of incumbent Rep. Kenny Nguyen of Broomfield in House District 33 was not particularly close, modeling the sore loser behavior most of us stopped exhibiting in middle school:

So, we realize that these legislative races got quite heated down the stretch, but there is absolutely nothing we know about Rep. Nguyen or the conduct of this admittedly very expensive primary that warrants a comparison to disgraced exiting Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. Henkel’s dispute seems to boil down to canvassers saying mean things about the sources of her funding, which is just not the crime of the century she apparently believes it to be.

Shortly after we were forwarded this post from Henkel, the Adams County GOP excitedly circulated it to their own audience, even though a simple read-through makes it pretty obvious this is a highly trivial dispute. If anything, to a reader with no stake in the outcome, it looks like confirmation that the voters made the right choice.

Unless you lose to a guy who has actually killed people, be a better sport about it than Heidi Henkel.

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