(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
20%
10%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
40%↓
30%
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
80%↑
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Milat Kiros
(D) Wanda James
70%↓
20%↑
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
30%↓
20%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
80%
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
53%↓
48%↑
(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%
As the Denver Post’s Seth Klamann reports, Colorado Republicans scored a substantial victory today in their years-long quest to extricate themselves from the requirement imposed by Proposition 108 to allow unaffiliated voters to participate in that party’s primary elections: The ruling, in a case filed by the Colorado GOP, did not fully strike down Proposition […]
Via the Daily Beast, Colorado’s carpetbagging crusader of churlishness Rep. Lauren Boebert is once again the butt of jokes across the nation today: Gushing over Trump’s installation of ICE officers, Boebert posted a gleeful video on her social media on Monday afternoon claiming there’d been an immediate impact in Minneapolis thanks to the new […]
We regularly note the latest entrants in what we call the “Mountain-Moving Hall of Shame,” in which a Colorado politician uses an image of a non-Colorado mountain in campaign literature or television advertisements. This usually happens (we assume) when a campaign consultant unfamiliar with Colorado finds a random mountainous image pulled from stock photos. The […]
Any immediate hopes of ending the 38-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security — and giving travelers relief from long TSA lines at the airport — went out the window on Monday with President Trump’s reiteration of a demand about the so-called “SAVE Act.” As CBS News reports: Senate talks aimed at ending the […]
NBC News reports while every Republican who has spent the last year celebrating the declining price of gasoline either cringes or plugs their ears: Anyone listening to President Donald Trump’s speeches has heard him say it and say it again: Gas prices are dropping on his watch, making life more affordable. The day before he […]
In December, Rep. Gabe Evans celebrated a decline in gas prices nationwide that Colorado in particular benefited from: The reasons for the drop in prices at the pump over the last six months are of course too complicated for House Republicans to take sole credit for, and some factors behind the decline like a slowing […]
With the party caucus season in full swing and the June Primary Election coming up fast, we’ve reached that point in a given election when long-shot challengers try desperately to convince voters that they have a great shot at winning…if you squint really, really, really hard. Democrats Julie Gonzales (U.S. Senate) and Milat Kiros (CO-01) are […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of cold hard cash, what does the SCOTUS tariff smackdown mean for Colorado’s 8th favorite member of congress? Then, while President Trump flails on the national stage, Colorado democrats take the gloves off and jump into the redistricting fight with […]
UPDATE: Rep. Jeff Hurd responds with his trademark milquetoast sort-of but not really maverickyness: I represent Colorado’s Third District, and I will always put our communities first. When I took office, I swore an oath to the Constitution and to the people I serve. Every vote I cast is guided by what is best for […]
(Right the first time — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder During a committee meeting at the state Capitol Tuesday, state Rep. Brandi Bradley, a Douglas County Republican, firmly pushed back against accusations from several witnesses that she was using a sweeping gun-control repeal bill as a PR stunt. But […]
We’ve been reminding readers of Colorado Pols to stay far away from Eric Nelson, a political hopeful with a resume full of ridiculous lies and exaggerations. Nelson has provided yet another reason to take our advice. Earlier this month, Nelson submitted petition signatures in hopes of becoming an official candidate in the HD-42 (Aurora) Democratic […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Soon after he voted against extending funds for an Obamacare program that helped lower health insurance premiums for over 200,000 Coloradans, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) announced, “Extending that for three more years isn’t reform. It’s rewarding failure.” It was perhaps the harshest language Evans […]
Politico’s Hailey Fuchs reports on a story that seems a million years old, but as readers may recall through the haze of distractions dominated the headlines just a few short weeks ago: One month after the congressionally mandated deadline to release all its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department has made […]
(2026’s hottest Republican primary takes shape — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Yet another state legislator has drawn a primary challenger in a House district where the outcome of the general election isn’t really in doubt. Rep. Brandi Bradley (R-Highlands Ranch) is running for reelection in Douglas County’s deep-red […]
As Colorado Newsline’s Lindsey Toomer reports, after filing dozens of individual lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s long list of controversial, adverse, and increasingly obviously retaliatory decisions affecting the state of Colorado in less than one year in office, Attorney General Phil Weiser has united all of these disparate hostile actions into a single legal narrative–the […]
UPDATE: For what it’s worth, a “pardon” signed by President Trump is now available on the Department of Justice website. —– President Trump is really feeling the Holiday season in 2025. A few weeks after symbolically pardoning a couple of turkeys in the annual pre-Thanksgiving event at the White House, Trump did it again on […]
As Chase Woodruff reports for Colorado Newsline, the wait is over as a long-rumored Democratic primary challenge from state Sen. Julie Gonzales against incumbent Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper steps out from behind a weekend press embargo: Democratic state Sen. Julie Gonzales on Monday announced she is running to unseat U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper in 2026, […]
As FOX 31’s Heather Willard reports, following the refusal over the holiday weekend by Colorado officials to honor the request by the Department of Justice to transfer convicted felon former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters to federal custody, from which she would likely be either released or moved to Ghislaine Maxwell-style accommodations at a “Club […]
(When you can’t beat ’em the old-fashioned way — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Ostensibly, ballot initiatives are meant as a way for the average citizen to create political change without the Legislature. But over half of the initiatives which could be put to Colorado voters in 2026 have […]
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage: [image or embed] — Rep. Jason Crow (@crow.house.gov) November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM —– As Politico reports, a video recorded by Democratic lawmakers with military service experience reminding members of the […]
As we noted last week, soon-to-be-former Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky was casting around for her next elected office after a surprising defeat in her re-election campaign. With more time to ponder her political future, Jurinsky has apparently decided against running for an open seat on the Douglas County Board of Commissioners in District […]
The Colorado Republican Party is nothing if not utterly and hopelessly predictable. As Ernest Luning reports for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman, the state party that POLITICO once said “would rather lose than change” is once again wrapped around its own axle: For the second time in as many years, a group […]
Whoa. No, seriously: WHOA! It would be hard to overstate how bigly Democrats won on Tuesday, both here in Colorado and throughout the country, but we’re going to try! The 2025 election was a MASSIVE repudiation of all things MAGA and Donald Trump that should send shivers down the spine of every Republican running for […]
Colorado’s one-woman cacaphony of controversy Rep. Lauren Boebert’s whole schtick, or at least a large percentage of it, is goading into outrage anyone even slightly to her left with as wild a display of offensive tropes as she can muster with the available props. It’s a race to the cultural bottom we try not to […]
There’s no avoiding polling data in politics. Not all data is the same, however, and some is more accurately predictive than others. One question that has been asked regularly for decades is much more indicative of election outcomes than others: The Generic Congressional Ballot. The GCB asks respondents, If the election for U.S. House of Representatives […]
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