(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
40%
20%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
50%
40%↓
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
50%↑
40%↓
30%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Wanda James
(D) Milat Kiros
80%
20%
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
40%↓
30%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
30%↑
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
55%↓
45%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Shannon Bird
(D) Manny Rutinel
45%↓
30%
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
NBC News reports, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s vow to stay in the 2024 presidential race indefinitely expired about twelve hours after the last polls closed on Super Tuesday: Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dropped out of the 2024 presidential race Wednesday after losing every state but Vermont in Super Tuesday’s primary contests, […]
We interrupt our coverage of Colorado political news for this big story from our caddy-corner neighbor to the southwest: Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who disaffiliated from the Democratic Party after emerging as a major roadblock to the Senate majority’s agenda two years ago, will retire instead of running for another term. Washington Post: Sen. Kyrsten […]
Today is Aerospace Day at the Colorado State Capitol, and some of the major defense and space exploration companies with Colorado ties are in the building today handing out cool swag like the United Launch Alliance’s “REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT” keychains and general goodwill on behalf of the economically significant military-space-industrial complex. Not surprisingly, some left-leaning […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Under questioning from a hard-line abortion opponent this morning, a Colorado congressional candidate said he’d support a national abortion ban, performing a perfect flip-flop from his answer to the exact same question in January. Asked by KNUS radio host Jeff Hunt this morning if he’d support a “national ban on abortions” […]
Colorado Newsline’s Chase Woodruff reports this morning, it’s the outcome overwhelmingly expected after tough oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court last month–with Justices ruling unanimously that the state of Colorado cannot itself enforce the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution barring individuals who have engaged in insurrection from running for federal office. “Because the […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Democrats in Washington have introduced legislation that would establish a statutory right to access in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technology services. U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) has co-sponsored the Access to Family Building Act, which he says will ensure no hopeful parent or doctor is punished for trying to […]
UPDATE: The Colorado Sun’s Sandra Fish with initial reactions: “It’s unprecedented,” said Suzanne Taheri, a Republican strategist and Haley supporter who is a former deputy Colorado secretary of state. “It’s certainly unethical … (Wiliams is) targeting his own district to promote himself — using the money from the state fund.” Rich Sokol, a former Arapahoe […]
As The Washington Post reports, House Speaker “MAGA” Mike Johnson once again needed the help of Democrats in order to pass a ONE WEEK EXTENSION for funding critical government services: The House on Thursday approved legislation to extend the expiration date for federal funding later into March, sending the measure to prevent a partial government […]
As Bente Birkeland and Caitlyn Kim reported Wednesday for Colorado Public Radio: Former President Ronald Reagan famously quipped that the Eleventh Commandment was, “thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.” As Colorado GOP chair Dave Williams approaches his one-year anniversary in the job, it’s a commandment he regularly breaches. Under his leadership, Williams is […]
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Colorado Public Radio’s Paolo Zialcita reports on the latest sordid chapter in transplanted but no less drama-infused GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s “American Life,” though we doubt Boebert’s biography will be updated to include developments since its publication. As readers know, Rep. Boebert’s tagline on her social media profile is that she is “Raising my boys […]
Over the years readers have gotten to know Jeff Hunt, the head of Colorado Christian University’s political activism wing known as the Centennial Institute, from his wedge issue grandstands at the state capitol and on social media, sometimes burning fellow Republicans–and also the Centennial Institute’s annual Western Conservative Summit, which during its heyday landed a […]
Earlier this month, the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby summarized a growing list of allegations against Colorado Republican Party chairman and congressional candidate Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams, who ever since taking the job last year has regularly employed the resources and brand of the state party in pursuit of Williams’ personal career objectives. After […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) This article first appeared in the Colorado Times Recorder. The Leadership Program of the Rockies (LPR) held its annual retreat this weekend at the Broadmoor Hotel, the historic Colorado Springs hotel, resort, and conference center owned by billionaire conservative activist Phil Anschutz. LPR, Colorado’s premiere conservative political training program, is known […]
We wrote last week about the devastating opinion by the Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos had the same rights as actual people. That decision has created chaos for families who hope to conceive children through the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF) — which often uses frozen embryos for this very purpose. From […]
Pueblo Republican Stephen Varela is one of those politicians who seem to exist in a perpetual state of shadiness. The latest trouble for “Shady Steve” may finally be the one that sinks him. As Sam Tabachnick reports today for The Denver Post, Varela’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress in CO-03 would seem to […]
As CNN reports–for a party that considers itself the defenders of American sovereignty against evil foreign influences on all sides, the Republican Party sure seems to wind up doing the bidding of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service an awful lot. We’re not talking today about the 2016 presidential elections, in which Russian intelligence played a […]
There may be no more annoying, exhausting, and deplorable business model than that of the health insurance industry in the United States. Customers pay a lot of money for health insurance coverage only to be forced to jump through endless hoops in order to receive the very benefits that were agreed upon from the start. […]
awesome + uniting Polis, lawmakers unveil $74 million tax credit, loan program for Colorado quantum companies Annual Cripple Creek Ice Festival returns for two weekends It’s official: Amache National Historic Site ensures federal protection for former Japanese American incarceration camp awesome + controversy Colorado lawmakers to consider bill that may curb book bans in school […]
Former President Donald Trump might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but when it comes to political strategy, he’s definitely aware of avoiding the bigger landmines. And ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, no issue has been more fraught for Republicans than that of abortion rights. Since […]
Yesterday, as readers are by now aware, the U.S. House succeeded in their second attempt at passing a resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, by a 214-213 margin sending the resolution to certain death in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate. Last week’s attempt to pass the same resolution unexpectedly failed after Republicans tried and […]
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As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, the co-opting of the machinery of the Colorado Republican Party by chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams to service Williams’ personal aspirations is once again stirring controversy after Williams broadsided his CD-5 GOP primary opponent Jeff Crank under the party letterhead: On Monday, the party sent out an […]
UPDATE: We updated this story to include former State Rep. Amy Stephens and former State Sen. Randy Baumgardner, both of whom failed to win the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2014. We also added former State Rep. Lang Sias, who was the GOP’s Lieutenant Governor nominee in 2018. —– Scott Tipton and Cory Gardner […]
As the partisan standoff continues in Washington over legislation in the U.S. Senate that would address the surge of migrants arriving on the Southern U.S. border as well as provide needed funding to support Ukraine and Israel in their respective conflicts. As we’ve discussed previously, Republicans are under intense pressure from Donald Trump to refuse […]
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