(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Mark Baisley
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
(D) Dwayne Romero
(R) Ron Hanks
50%↓
30%↓
30%↑
20%
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
80%
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
53%↓
48%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Mel Tewahade
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%
We kicked off our 2026 election reader polls with a question about the Democratic nominee for Governor. Let’s keep things moving down the ballot in the race for Attorney General. There is no plausible Republican candidate seeking the office of Attorney General in 2026, so your options are all Democrats: Secretary of State Jena Griswold, […]
The year 2025 is (finally) coming to a close and the 2026 election cycle is heating up, so it’s time to start asking Colorado Pols readers to predict the future! As always with our totally unscientific reader polls, we want to know what you THINK is going to happen — not what you might prefer […]
Many politicians have unique abilities that allow them to ascend to higher office… Those same abilities can also cause them to quickly descend from lofty political heights. Republican George Santos, for example, used his, um, “exaggeration abilities” to win election to Congress in 2022 before later becoming just the sixth person in history to be […]
We’ve been taking note in this space of the various attacks on Colorado perpetuated by President Trump as part of his apparently never-ending retribution tour masquerading as a Presidency. There is no longer any pretense that actions focused on Colorado are not being dictated by the angry old orange guy because of some perceived slight […]
As 9NEWS reports this morning, although precautions taken by Xcel Energy to prevent a repeat of the devastating Marshall Fire of December of 2021 along the Front Range foothills during yesterday’s 100 mile-an-hour-plus windstorm appear to have succeeded, large windswept fires tore through rural Yuma County last night, burning tens of thousands of acres in […]
The Colorado Sun reports today on another act of political retaliation against the state of Colorado by the Trump administration, this one involving the cancellation of over $100 million in transportation grant funding that, though allocated, appropriated, and plans built around its disbursement, does not meet the administration’s new regressive political correctness standards: The Trump […]
As John Ingold reports for the Colorado Sun, yesterday in the U.S. Senate, the vote which had been promised to a faction of Senate Democrats when they caved in to Republican demands to reopen the federal government abandoning their demand for an extension to expiring health insurance premium subsidies took place, and as was fully […]
While President Trump was pondering his “Turkey Pardon” of Tina Peters on Thursday, Indiana Republicans handed him a significant defeat that could well mark a turning point in Trump’s rapidly-declining second term. Republicans in Indiana overwhelmingly opposed demands from the White House to ram through a Congressional redistricting plan in order to boost Republican chances […]
(the race to replace “Three-Vote Becky” is on — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder After Colorado Rep. Rebecca Keltie (R-Colorado Springs) announced she wouldn’t be running for reelection to her House District 16 seat, she endorsed Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education Vice President Jill Haffley. “I […]
President Trump has been working really hard trying to convince Americans that the economy is rolling and prices are down and you should stop complaining about the cost of goods because you’re wrong. It’s not working, and Republicans are justifiably getting nervous. As The Washington Post reported on Tuesday: “We inherited the highest prices ever, […]
President Trump has been on a rampage in recent weeks about his inability to spring former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters from jail in Colorado, where she is currently serving a nine-year sentence for her actions related to breaking into her own election computers in a fruitless attempt to prove 2020 election fraud. […]
If right-wing news drivel is your thing, then you’ve got plenty to be excited about in Colorado. We’ve been paying close attention to efforts by right-wing media outlet Nexstar Media Group to buy Tegna and take over 9News in Denver. As we noted in August, if Nexstar’s merger is approved, the company would almost certainly […]
NEW: Progressive State Sen. Julie Gonzales is dropping her Democratic Socialist affiliation as she challenges Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO). Gonzales told me she is no longer a member of the DSA. pic.twitter.com/IV1lO5GdEs — Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) December 9, 2025 Speaking with 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark yesterday following the launch of her longshot bid to unseat incumbent […]
State Rep. Shannon Bird (D-Westminster) announced this week that she is resigning from the state legislature in order to focus on her campaign for Congress in CO-08. Bird’s decision isn’t as common as you might think. First, as The Colorado Sun reports: The Westminster Democrat’s last day as a state lawmaker will be Jan. 5. […]
As NBC News reports this morning, the resolution of a long-unsolved crime related to the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election has created a new, or depending on your point of view the same old headache for President Donald Trump in his never-ending quest […]
Imagine, if you will, that you are in charge of hiring a new salesperson for your widget company in Colorado. As part of the hiring process, you bring in a few potential candidates for job interviews and ask them all the same general questions. In one of the interviews, this exchange takes place: INTERVIEWER: Tell […]
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 […]
As the Minnesota Star Tribune’s Ryan Faircloth reports, a name well-known in Colorado politics after his years of involvement in the Tina Peters election fraud felony fiasco and close association with various fringe-right locals–also apparently notorious for not paying back money he’s borrowed from fellow Colorado election conspiracy theorists–is set to shake up the race […]
Last month we took note of a request from 10 Secretaries of State across the country asking the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to provide more details about why they were insisting that states turn over voter registration data. As The Associated Press reported at the time: In response to a […]
In the latest newsletter from the Jefferson County Republican Party, presently chaired by convicted felon firearms enthusiast Rich Wyatt, we find a message about candidate recruitment for the upcoming 2o26 midterm elections: We know that who our candidates are truly matters. That’s why the Jefferson County Republican Party is actively seeking individuals who are ready […]
As readers know, the political football over the permanent home of the U.S. Space Command with its attendant thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in public investment has been one of the more brazen examples of Donald Trump’s transactional style of leadership, at length rewarding the loyal Republican state of Alabama with the prize […]
As Sam Brasch reports for Colorado Public Radio, yesterday the Department of Energy led by Colorado frackvangelist Chris Wright, announced a rebranding of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden as the National Laboratory of the Rockies–deleting what has been the founding mission of NREL since its original founding as the Solar Energy Research Institution […]
As the Department of War and the Justice Department continue their “investigations” into a video featuring six Democratic lawmakers reminding members of the U.S. military of their obligation to refuse illegal orders, the Republican counterargument that no illegal order had ever been issued by the Trump administration, a cornerstone of their case that these six […]
Colorado Newsline’s Chase Woodruff reports on last night’s tragic multi-car pileup on I-25 that claimed the life of Democratic Sen. Faith Winter of Broomfield, who was about to kick off her final year in office next January: Colorado state Sen. Faith Winter, a Broomfield Democrat who served for more than a decade in the Colorado […]
Last night, 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark broke news that will greatly relieve county clerks in both parties who have been begging Gov. Jared Polis to decline the Trump administration’s request to transfer former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from the state prison, where she is serving as nine year sentence for her scheme to defeat election […]
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