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Trump Advisers Expound on Imaginary Friends and Illuminati

It is unclear that President Trump actually listens to any advice he receives from, well, from anyone. If Trump does indeed regularly dismiss counsel on policy issues foreign and domestic, there are at least two people we can only hope are among the voices he ignores. At the top of that list, as Political Wire […]

AG Weiser: Sheriffs Will Enforce “Red Flag” Or Let People Die

Colorado Public Radio’s Allison Sherry: State Attorney General Phil Weiser told gun control advocates Tuesday that despite some sheriffs threatening not to enforce the state’s new “red flag” law, he believes they will rethink that decision when faced with the realities of an armed and potentially dangerous person. “It won’t be an abstraction,” Weiser said, […]

There’s Hickenlooper, Then There’s Everyone Else

Democrat Andrew Romanoff filed his Q3 fundraising report just under the deadline on Tuesday, submitting his numbers at 11:32 pm (according to the FEC). Romanoff’s report — $503k raised and a total cash-on-hand (COH) amount of $725k — concludes the Q3 fundraising period for the 8 remaining Democratic U.S. Senate candidates. The numbers speak for […]

10/15/19 Democratic Prez Debate Open Thread

Shake hands and come out swinging left.

Ick Alert: Charlie Kirk, Don Jr. Coming To Fort Collins

As the Denver Post’s Elizabeth Hernandez reports: Donald Trump Jr. and conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk are scheduled to speak at Colorado State University next week as part of a cross-country tour put on by the conservative student organization Turning Point USA… Kirk has caused a stir at CSU in the past. When the conservative provocateur […]

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (October 15)

Happy “Global Handwashing Day.” Please celebrate responsibly. Now, let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget […]

Stupid Facts Keep Messing Up O&G Talking Points

Facts have a nasty habit of contradicting nonsense. If you are someone like President Trump, you deal with the intractable fact problem by just ignoring the existence of true, provable information altogether; this approach got Trump a room at the White House, but it hasn’t been as effective since the 2016 election. Trump’s effusive display […]

Who Will be the Democratic Nominee for President in 2020?

What time is it? Poll time! With the next Democratic Presidential debate coming up on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, it’s time again to ask the wise readers of Colorado Pols to predict the Democratic nominee for President in 2020. When we last asked this question in September, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were neck-and-neck at […]

What you can do to fight back this week (October 14)

Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Last week, a group of local and national reporters working together finally cornered Sen. Cory Gardner and pressed him about the fast-moving impeachment inquiry against President Trump over Trump’s blatant extortion of Ukraine for political advantage […]

At Least It’s Not Your Congressman (Ship Spotting Edition)

In Colorado politics, one of the seminal faux pas a candidate can commit is using a scenic photo of a mountain range that turns out to not be located in the state of Colorado. Various locations from Alaska’s Denali to the Canadian Rockies, not to mention a Utah canyonscape or two, have embarrassingly stood in […]

Colorado Kurds Ask Their Neighbors (You) To Care

Denver7’s Ivan Rodriguez reports: Members of Colorado’s Kurdish community gathered outside the state Capitol Sunday afternoon to protest Turkish attacks in Syria. President Donald Trump ordered U.S. troops in northern Syria to step aside, clearing the way for an attack by Turkey, which regards the Kurds as terrorists… Kani Murad said aside from being Kurdish, […]

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Open Thread

Trump Public Lands Director Won’t Say Why He Denies Global Warming–And Says He Has Yet to Be “Briefed” on It

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In a contentious exchange with journalists Friday, the acting director of the federal agency in charge of most public lands in the U.S. insisted his “personal views,” which include a denial of global warming and hostility toward immigrants, have no bearing on his job and he repeatedly refused to discuss his […]

Is Cory Gardner Done?

JAMES CARVILLE: That poor guy, I don’t think he is vulnerable, I think he’s done. He ought to just drop out of the race. In the past 24 hours, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado has transitioned from merely the nation’s most vulnerable Republican Senator up for re-election in 2020 into a living metaphor for the […]

Alice Madden Dropping Out of Senate Race

Today is Dropout Friday, apparently. Former House Majority Leader Alice Madden is ending her bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate: Madden 4th leading candidate to drop out since @Hickenlooper got into US Senate race. Former state House Speaker Duran’s surprise decision to take on longtime incumbent @RepDianaDeGette was the disaster many had predicted. #copolitics […]

Crisanta Duran Ends Congressional Campaign

As Ernest Luning reports for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman, former State House Speaker Crisanta Duran is ending her bid to unseat Rep. Diana DeGette in Denver’s first congressional district: Former Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran on Friday dropped her Democratic primary challenge against U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, saying she believes she […]

Ambassador Will Ignore Trump and Testify Before Congress

UPDATE: CNN reports on some eye-opening statements today from Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. —– The White House has been refusing to cooperate with Congress regarding impeachment investigations, but it appears that President Trump’s hands are not large enough to corral all of his underlings. As the Washington Post reports: U.S. Ambassador to […]

Beginning Of The End? Gardner Implodes on Ukraine Questions

UPDATE #5: AP’s Nick Riccardi reports, Sen. Cory Gardner’s flop sweat is contagious: On Thursday, two Republican senators — Joni Ernst of Iowa and Cory Gardner of Colorado — repeatedly refused to answer reporters’ questions on whether a president should make such a request of a rival power. “I don’t know that we have that […]

Mike Pence is a Blubbering Idiot on Ukraine

Vice President Mike Pence perhaps still holds out hope that something will prevent President Trump from completing his term in office and allow Pence to at least sit behind the Resolute Desk for a few days. Pence has been trying to lay low amid the latest scandals enveloping the White House, but he apparently hasn’t […]

Halliburt-Oh No! Big Oil BS Explodes In Local GOP Faces

The last 24 hours have witnessed a remarkable turn of events that has played out mostly on social media, and resulted in considerable embarrassment for local Republicans and the fossil fuel energy industry PR people who they work closely with. The long battle this year over Senate Bill 19-181, landmark legislation reforming the mission of […]

Squirrel! Gardner Tries (Poorly) to Draw Attention Elsewhere

Earlier this week we wrote about Sen. Cory Gardner’s attempt to appear as though he is taking a very important position on a very obvious policy question regarding President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Gardner voiced his opposition to Trump’s move but hasn’t done much else of note; Turkey has since attacked U.S.-aligned […]

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (October 9)

The hashtag #RepublicanCampaignSlogans is trending on Twitter today. Now, let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t […]

Just Impeachie: White House Puts Up Roadblocks

UPDATE: Here’s the letter sent to Congress by the White House in which the Trump administration explains that it will not cooperate with impeachment investigations. —– There is a LOT of impeachment news to digest these days. If it is hard for us to keep up with all of this impeachment news, it’s probably difficult […]

Ben Engen Cashes In On Moribund Garcia Recall

As readers know, all of the recall attempts initiated by Colorado Republicans in retaliation for last year’s landslide victories for Democrats in this state have fizzled except one: the recall petition due later this month against Senate President Leroy Garcia of Pueblo, the immediate successor to ex-Sen. Angela Giron who was successfully recalled in the […]

“There, I said it”

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Given the repellent effect Trump has on election-deciding independent voters in Colorado, and failed U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman’s post-election declaration that Trump caused him to lose his swing district last year, you’d expect more Colorado Republicans to start jumping off the Trump ship, at least here in Colorado. Maybe they think […]

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