(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%
Earlier today, Chase Woodruff of Colorado Newsline pointed out via Twitter that it has been three weeks since Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea said this about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago: “The American people deserve to know what’s going on here. [The] DOJ should put all their cards on the table. If the facts and […]
There are 68 days left until Election Day on Nov. 8. That’s not a lot of time left to make your case to voters, but that number is deceiving for elections in Colorado; because Colorado is a mail-ballot state, there are now only 6 weeks remaining until voters start to find ballots in their mailboxes. […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Prosecutors have concluded their investigation into Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and intend to ask for a trial date at a hearing next Wednesday. In a press release Tuesday, 21st Judicial District Attorney Dan Rubinstein said his office and “the Colorado Attorney General’s Office have been engaged in parallel […]
Last October, as readers will remember, newly-minted Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl brought in nationally-known conservative commentator Dennis Prager for a town hall-type discussion in Colorado Springs. Although it probably helped Ganahl in the Republican primary, Prager’s visit was an early indicator that Ganahl is a dedicated conservative ideologue with no intentions of running […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Axios Denver: Colorado GOP congressional candidate Barbara Kirkmeyer scrubbed her hardline anti-abortion stance from her campaign website, part of a broader overhaul to moderate her image… What they’re saying: Kirkmeyer spokesperson Alan Philp told Axios the changes came after the campaign did “a complete redesign” of its website. Other issues removed were education, […]
It’s that time of the year in Colorado when politicians don funny-looking shirts and mingle at cocktail parties in support of the Denver Rustlers at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo. If you’ve been browsing social media sites lately, you’ve no doubt seen seen the photos. Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea is among the candidates […]
As the Denver Post’s Nick Coltrain reports, the estimates are back on the cost to taxpayers and petition signature requirements for the threatened recall election against Sen. Kevin Priola, who switched from the Republican to the Democratic parties earlier this month citing Donald Trump’s war on democracy and Republican indifference on climate change. Secretary of […]
Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea hasn’t been gaining much traction against incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in any important campaign measurement, but he has had some success in one metric: Picking up national press coverage. Unfortunately for O’Dea, that “success” comes with an asterisk. O’Dea has recently been featured in national outlets such as The […]
The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) held its “Summer National Meeting” over the weekend at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. The event promised some “exciting conversations” on issues such as “inflation, litigation trends, and a Supreme Court roundup” that was surely edge-of-your seat entertainment, but the real action was at the various candidate fundraisers that […]
With Republican hopes for recapturing the Colorado Senate in 2022 dwindling after the defection of Sen. Kevin Priola to the Democratic majority, the competitive races up this year are even more crucial if local Republicans hope to in any way benefit from what looks to be a petering “red wave” midterm. One of those is […]
Late last week there were a handful of stories in Colorado news outlets about Republican State Sen. Dennis Hisey’s strange residency issues as he seeks election in a new district (SD-11) against Democrat Tony Exum. It seems that at least one notable Republican in El Paso County is very concerned about how this might play […]
Earlier this month, Republican candidates for office at all levels gathered at Mile High Station, an events venue in downtown Denver owned by multimillionaire U.S. Senate candidate Joe “Horse Sushi” O’Dea, to declare their unity heading into the height of election season. Standing together on one stage were candidates like O’Dea and Secretary of State […]
Governor Jared Polis today appointed Anne Kelly as the new District Attorney in JD-12 (San Luis Valley). Attorney General Phil Weiser had been providing oversight in the district since Democrat Alonzo Payne resigned in early July after numerous complaints about a lack of timely communications regarding prosecutions and allegations that Payne had violated the Colorado […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with University of Colorado professor Dr. Anand Sohkey about his upcoming book on Christian Nationalism and why it’s suddenly so pervasive in our politics. But that’s not all! In this unusually-long episode, we also talk about State Sen. Kevin […]
Democrat Ed Perlmutter, who is retiring this year after serving eight terms in Congress representing Jefferson County, will hold his final “Government in the Grocery” event on Saturday. Via a press release from Perlmutter’s office: On Saturday, August 27th, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) will hold his final Government in the Grocery event. A signature […]
Republican Erik Aadland is fairly new to politics, but he apparently understands — albeit a bit late — that being a full-throated election denier and “Big Lie” MAGAbot isn’t going to be very helpful in trying to win election to Congress in CO-07 against Democratic State Sen. Brittany Pettersen. Aadland spoke about his beliefs that […]
The bombshell news Monday that state Sen. Kevin Priola has defected from the Colorado Republican Party and joined the Democratic majority in the chamber provoked a furious reaction from Republicans, who immediately commenced organizing a recall campaign against Sen. Priola despite the impending November elections (where Priola is not on the ballot) being a much […]
FRIDAY UPDATE: Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland reads between the lines: While the recall website doesn’t mention the [PSA with Secretary of State Jena Griswold], Pitchford did email Williams about it just one day before sending out the blast asking for help with the recall. A source close to the situation provided CPR with a […]
Republican State Sen. Dennis Hisey is all over the place…literally. And it looks like he may have broken the law as a result. As Marianne Goodland reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette, Hisey appears to have been playing musical residences in an effort to maintain his eligibility to remain a candidate for Senate District 11 […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, another precipitous development in the felony case against Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters today as her indicted Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley cops a plea and an expected light sentence–in exchange for Knisley’s cooperation in the felony prosecution of her erstwhile boss: Belinda Knisley, the sidelined deputy under […]
As NBC News’ Marc Caputo reports, embattled Florida Republican congressbroham Matt Gaetz, despite an ongoing federal investigation into alleged human trafficking and other assorted sex crimes, emerged victorious Tuesday night in his primary that featured heavy spending on lurid ads attacking Gaetz: Rep. Matt Gaetz defeated his Republican primary opponent Tuesday in one of Florida’s […]
There is no group of people who know how to make a bad situation worse like Colorado Republicans. On Wednesday, Colorado Republicans announced that they had formally begun the process to recall State Sen. Kevin Priola from office for reasons that have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with partisanship. On Monday, […]
As the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Marianne Goodland reports, a number of local elected officials and candidates were in Steamboat Springs yesterday to confer, converse, and otherwise hob-knob with the eminent and sagely buffaloes of the Colorado Water Congress. With the West in the grip of historic drought and the effects of human-caused climate change increasingly […]
As we discussed last week, amid the growing sense of desperation among Republicans as their chances of capturing a majority in the U.S. Senate dwindle under the weight of terrible Republican candidates throwing away winnable races, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell–who candidly admitted last week that “candidate quality” is impacting Republican odds–and the National Republican […]
“Colorado is in Play” is the new “This is What Momentum Looks Like.” Back in October 2017, supporters of then-gubernatorial candidate George Brauchler were inexplicably crowing that “this is what momentum looks like” after their candidate raised less than $100k in the third quarter fundraising period and picked up a handful of endorsements from law […]
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