(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%
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder The Trump Administration has made sweeping changes to American public policy over its first two months, from shuttering the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to downsizing the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and instigating a trade war with Canada, Mexico, China, and other […]
UPDATE: Colorado’s other U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper sounds more conciliatory about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s future, via Axios: “I think it’s time for Democrats to stop pointing fingers at each other and doing the circular firing squad,” Hickenlooper told us when pressed about whether he would support a leadership change. This too is a […]
The Colorado Republican Party is such a cartoonish disaster that it would need to undergo a deep cleaning just to be able to call itself a “mess.” It’s no wonder that the GOP is having a hard time finding a venue willing to get in the mud along with the rest of the party faithful. […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: It’s Bernie Sanders vs. Lori Saine as the always-cantankerous candidate for Colorado GOP chair organizes counter-protests for each of Sanders’ stops in Greeley and Denver: We hope both sides keep it neighborly. —– Denverite’s Kyle Harris reports on a big upcoming weekend for pressing the political flesh, with perhaps the largest crowd expected […]
When the 2026 General Election comes around, it will mark 12 years since the last time that a Colorado Republican was elected to a major statewide office (Republican Heidi Ganahl won a statewide race for CU Regent in 2016, but that doesn’t fit under our definition of “major”). That drought is not likely to end […]
Longtime political reporter Shaun Boyd at Denver’s CBS affiliate KCNC Channel 4 has a well-earned reputation as the go-to correspondent for Republicans looking for sympathetic, or failing that at least what they consider to be “fair” coverage, compared to other local news outlets that they (like Donald Trump) consider to be “enemies of the people.” […]
Members of Colorado’s bipartisan Joint Budget Committee are working hard to finalize $1.2 billion in cuts even as the economic picture for the state nation world continues to degrade thanks mostly to the asinine policies of President Donald Trump. As Nick Coltrain reports for The Denver Post: How close lawmakers are to filling the hole […]
We woke up this morning to news that a well-known local immigrant rights activist, named by TIME Magazine as one of America’s 100 most influential figures when she first made headlines early in Donald Trump’s first administration, has been arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Aurora–reportedly acting without a deportation order. […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…new polling shows Americans are already sick of Trump 2.0; will shutting down FiveThirtyEight so nobody can get a good polling average help or hurt the 45th and 47th president and his flagging ratings? The White House is controlled by Republicans. The senate is controlled by Republicans. The […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Nathan Deal reports, Colorado Mesa University, which in addition to being Grand Junction’s finest institution of higher learning has also long served as a job placement service for Republican operatives including the school’s president John Marshall, is hosting in the interest of the 2025 definition of “diversity” one of America’s […]
With no shortage of bad news to keep us down, it’s refreshing to have something unassailably positive to mention like Friday’s brief story from Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog acknowledging the continuing success of Colorado’s highest-ranking U.S. House Democrat, Assistant Minority Leader Joe Neguse of Boulder–who continued to deliver results in […]
UPDATE: Reports today that Colorado’s Sen. Michael Bennet, who will vote against the continuing resolution, blew his stack this week in a private meeting in frustration over Democratic leadership’s lack of resolve to oppose the bill: NEWS: Democratic Senate sources tell me the biggest frustration inside the caucus right now is the indecision from leadership. […]
As Lauren Watson and Blake Sammann report for KKTV in Colorado Springs, there is a new Republican candidate for Governor in 2026 who has zero chance of winning if his campaign kickoff is any indication of things to come: Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell will run for governor in the 2026 Colorado Gubernatorial Election, according […]
The Trump administration and Prime Minister Elon Musk have fired roughly 103,452 federal workers thus far in 2025. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 21,000 of those fired employees were let go while on “probationary” status. President Trump on Wednesday claimed to be very sad about the American families whose lives have been upended by the […]
We wrote yesterday about freshman GOP Rep. Jeff “Bread Sandwich” Hurd’s switch from in-person meetings with constituents to telephone town halls, following an incident last month in which Hurd’s Southwest regional staffer fled the scene of a library town hall after blanching at the size of the gathered crowd. On Tuesday evening, Rep. Hurd conducted […]
Since winning the congressional seat vacated by exited-stage-left Rep. Lauren Boebert last November, freshman Republican Rep. Jeff Hurd has been a little more difficult to pin down politically than his predecessor, thoughtfully dissenting over President Donald Trump’s pardoning of January 6th insurrectionists and more recently co-sponsoring legislation intended to offer some measure of protection for […]
The names may change, but the votes stay the same. In year after year, on one piece of legislation after another, Colorado Republicans have gone out of their way to oppose legislation that would benefit Colorado families. Fortunately, a Democratic trifecta in state government has ensured that these pro-family proposals eventually make it into law […]
Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (D-Lakewood) is demonstrating that Democrats are the true party of “family values.” Pettersen is close to being able to force a House floor vote on her proposal to allow proxy voting for new mothers despite the resistance of House Speaker Mike Johnson to the idea of modernizing the old white man institution […]
Last week, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Yaakov Roth of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division filed a “statement of interest” in the federal case from convicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is petitioning federally for release on bail while her appeal plays out. Peters, who was convicted in a Mesa County court on […]
Way back in June 2017, then-Sen. Cory Gardner made an unannounced tour of several Asian countries as part of an effort to boost his international relations bonafides so that he could eventually be a candidate for Secretary of State or President of the United States. That tour included a boneheaded photograph with murderous dictator Rodrigo […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…the brilliant businesspeople and billionaires that are currently running the country are driving the economy off a cliff; as Donald Trump’s approval ratings slide into net-negative territory at record speed, are we great again yet? Then our neighbors to the north get rightfully pissed at American voters for putting this […]
As the Houston Chronicle’s Michael Garcia reports, Colorado’s carpetbagging controversy-seeking missile Rep. Lauren Boebert couldn’t resist taking one more uniquely hypocritical little swipe at Rep. Al Green, who was censured last week after interrupting President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress–much the same way Boebert herself heckled and hollered all the way […]
Colorado Republicans will choose a new State Party Chair on March 29 when they meet in Castle Rock. While current Chair Dave Williams isn’t seeking another term (as Colorado Pols first reported earlier this year, Williams is waiting on a job in the Trump administration), the Williams banner is still being carried by the GOP’s […]
Reuters reports via USA TODAY that massive job reductions at the Department of Veterans Affairs as part of the Trump 2.0/Musk administration’s gutting-in-force of the federal workforce, far beyond the elimination of some 1,000 probationary VA employees and other examples of what human resource bean-counters call “low-hanging fruit” that already took place last month, will […]
As Aldo Svaldi reports for The Denver Post, there is no grievance too small for retribution in Donald Trump’s Republican Party: The U.S. Small Business Administration confirmed Thursday that it would pull regional offices from Denver and five other large “sanctuary cities” over their unwillingness to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [Pols emphasis] […]
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