(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%
The June 6 runoff election to become Denver’s next Mayor is finally set! The Denver Elections Office took an early lunch today and finished up the bulk of the ballot counting; with just 2,400 ballots left to count, Mike Johnston and Kelly Brough are far enough ahead of the rest of the field that […]
Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reports: Adam Frisch, the Democrat seeking a rematch against Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, raised more than $1.7 million in the first quarter for his 2024 bid in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, his campaign said Thursday. The former Aspen City Council member received nearly 50,000 individual […]
Democrat Lesley Smith announced on Thursday that she will not seek re-election to her statewide CU Regent seat in 2024 and will instead run for what will be an open seat in the state legislature. Smith will be running for the seat in HD-49, which is a safe Democratic district. This isn’t ordinarily the kind […]
A story from a team of investigative reporters at ProPublica is rocking the halls of power today in Washington, D.C., with Democrats calling for the impeachment or resignation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after revelations of hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed gifts from a Republican billionaire donor over the course of […]
(Republished under Creative Commons license by Colorado Pols) by Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline April 5, 2023 As voters in Colorado’s two largest cities returned their ballots on Tuesday in pivotal municipal elections, a news story containing a major factual error about the state’s crime rate was shared widely by Republican leaders, police officials and other […]
Tuesday was a huge election night in Colorado, particular in Denver and Colorado Springs. But there were other big races across the country that can tell us more about how things might look in 2024. Let’s start with the big headlines: Denver Mayor and Public Financing It appears that Mike Johnston and Kelly Brough […]
NBC News reported Monday on the rollout by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee–DCCC or “D-Trip” if you want to say it like the cool kids–of their initial slate of 31 Republican-held seats races they’ll be working to flip in 2024. And after coming within 546 votes of losing her on-paper R+9 seat last November, Colorado’s […]
UPDATE 7:50PM: In the Colorado Springs mayor’s race, political newcomer Yemi Mobolade is disrupting conventional wisdom and finishing well ahead of expected top contenders Wayne Williams and Sallie Clark. A runoff will also be necessary here. —– UPDATE 7:25PM: In the Denver mayoral race, Mike Johnston and Kelly Brough take early leads to make the […]
UPDATE: 34 felony charges, the Washington Post reports: In the city that made him famous, under extraordinary courtroom security, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony counts related to payments to silence an adult film actress during his 2016 presidential campaign. He is the first former or sitting U.S. president to be criminally charged. The […]
As Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland reports, the Democratic majority in the Colorado General Assembly is on the cusp of passing the most substantial package of gun safety reform laws, since at least 2019’s “red flag” law, and rivaling the landmark 2013 legislative session that saw the passage of Colorado’s universal background checks and magazine […]
Denver and Colorado Springs are the two largest cities in Colorado, and today voters will take the first step in deciding who will lead their respective cities for the next 8-12 years. With so many candidates on the ballot — 16 in Denver and 12 in Colorado Springs — it’s likely that both races will […]
Fresh from Rep. Ken Buck’s drubbing last week at the hands of CNN’s White House correspondent Phil Mattingly over Buck’s trophy AR-15 and Buck’s dreadfully inaccurate recounting of Colorado’s “red flag” gun safety law, Buck was back on CNN this weekend to defend former President Donald Trump in the wake of Trump’s indictment last […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Colorado House Democrats invoke Rule 14 to stop the 19 Republicans from filibustering a package of gun safety laws while yet another mass shooting unnecessarily takes the lives of more American children. The GOP is the party of insurrection, gun violence, and coddling criminals, and our 8th […]
In a contrast so telling it really does speak for itself, Colorado Public Radio’s Andrew Kenney reports on the election yesterday of veteran local political strategist Shad Murib to succeed outgoing chair Morgan Carroll as the head of the Colorado Democratic Party: A longtime political professional, the 35-year-old is a native of Littleton and a […]
9NEWS’ Kyle Clark yesterday confirmed what new Colorado Republican Party chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams has been suggesting ever since winning his post–indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, awaiting trial on a range of misconduct and impersonation charges related to the theft of election system data in a failed bid to prove Donald Trump […]
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UPDATE #2: Former President Donald Trump confirms via TruthSocial that he has been “indicated.” Remember, Trump doesn’t fix typos, he “covfefes” them! We have to call being indicted “getting indicated” now. We don’t make these rules. —– UPDATE: Rep. Diana DeGette of Denver is understandably stoked: BREAKING: Trump just became the first former U.S. President […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Nathan Deal reports, Colorado’s queen of the far-right rodeo (better that than the chef) Rep. Lauren Boebert voted this week for a failed amendment to a Republican education bill with itself little chance of passing the Democratic U.S. Senate. Sixty Republican members joined with Democrats to reject the amendment that […]
The race for Denver Mayor — and other municipal offices — is down to its final days. Election Day is on Tuesday, April 4, which means that if you still have a ballot sitting on your counter at home, DO NOT put it in the mail at this point (CLICK HERE for more information on […]
Yesterday afternoon, senior White House correspondent for CNN Phil Mattingly recorded a segment with Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck on the subject of gun control laws generally and the AR-15 rifle in particular–the latter being the overwhelming weapon of choice in American mass shootings, and also a personal trophy hanging on the wall of Rep. […]
As Colorado Public Radio’s Caitlyn Kim reports today, with the Colorado Republican Party now firmly under the control of far-right chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams, one of the first orders of business is the long-sought goal of closing the Republican primary to insufficiently “America First” unaffiliated voters: “The Colorado Republican Committee wishes to explore […]
This evening, Colorado’s premiere election conspiracy theorist and would-be mass political hangman Joe Oltmann is hosting a panel of nether-right election denialists, pastor Matthew Trewhella famous for calling violence against abortion providers “justifiable homicide,” and Colorado Springs mayoral candidate John “Tig” Tiegen to talk about being big bad tough guys who “stand in the gap” against… […]
It has been said that hypocrisy is not a bug, but a feature of the modern Republican Party. We saw it in 2022, when Republicans promoted candidates across the country (Herschel Walker in Georgia, Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania, and even Joe O’Dea in Colorado, to name a few) who expressed ideas that were contradictory to […]
The biggest political news of the last week in Colorado has been the end after weeks of increasing obstruction by the Republican micro-minority in the Colorado House of the Democratic supermajority’s patience–leading to the invoking this past weekend of the body’s longstanding Rule 14 to limit debate on an individual piece of legislation, thus […]
After embattled fabulous fabulist freshman Rep. George Santos made the look infamous, we didn’t expect to see it start a trend. But here today was Sen. Jim Smallwood staying warm and fleece-y in the well of the Colorado Senate: We’re not knocking the sweater itself, but maybe not as a suit vest? If Gov. Jared […]
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