February 25, 2026 11:57 AM UTC

Gabe Evans Inexplicably Takes Point For Trump Again

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• by: Colorado Pols

Although last night’s State of the Union address from President Donald Trump clocked in as the longest in history, nothing Trump said last night is likely to move the needle politically for himself or fellow Republicans, who are facing what could be a historic trouncing at the polls in the November midterm elections. Anyone left in the country undecided about Trump heard nothing dynamic to move them either way, while the growing majority of Americans who are not just opposed but hardened resistors against Trump’s agenda had their opinions reinforced by Trump’s taunting of his Democratic opponents and unapologetic delivery of long-debunked falsehoods.

Instead of doing the smart thing and keeping his head down, America’s Most Vulnerable Incumbent™ Rep. Gabe Evans once again made the ill-advised decision to lead the SOTU defense of the Trump administration in Colorado, publishing a guest opinion in the Denver Post that was embargoed until moments after Trump began speaking:

In which Rep. Evans made claims about Trump’s first year in office that will greatly irritate the majority of voters who the polls say know better:

Trump is reversing the many years of rising crime and chaos inflicted on families under Democrat rule. The American people asked for safer streets and secure borders, and today, GOP-led policies are delivering measurable results.

A new report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association shows violent crime is plummeting across major U.S. cities between 2024 and 2025. Homicides fell 19%, robberies dropped 20% and aggravated assaults were down nearly 10% in 2025 across 67 of the nation’s biggest police departments. These improvements came after Americans rejected soft-on-crime and defund-the-police policies, which resulted in a spike in crime over the previous 4 years. Denver saw one of the highest drops in homicide rates in the nation.

The truth, of course, is that crime began to fall from its post-pandemic peak in 2023, two years before Trump and Evans assumed their current federal offices. The driving forces behind  From there, Gabe launched into something even harder to explain politically–a full-throated defense of Trump’s immigration policies set to go over like a lead balloon in Colorado’s most Latino district:

GOP-led immigration policies are keeping American citizens safe from bad actors, including murderers, rapists, and traffickers who pose serious threats to our communities. [Pols emphasis]

This is the same argument that Evans made a year ago to justify the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign when it was in its earliest stages, and still enjoyed the public support that helped Trump narrowly win nationwide in 2024. But since that time, public opinion has flipped on Trump’s immigration agenda and the human costs and eventually dead American citizens piled up. Evans’ op-ed does not employ the “gangsters not grandmas” slogan he has beat to death while the facts on the ground have belied it.

Like Trump’s speech itself, we’re not sure who Gabe Evans was seeking to persuade with these feeble arguments that even most Trump supporters understand by now are bogus. It’s been suggested to us that Evans is fully aware he is most likely a political goner in November, and is choosing total loyalty to Trump over re-election in hope of a consolation prize after he loses. Because we do believe that Evans is smart enough to read the polls, this could be the only explanation that makes sense.