(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 Republican candidate for Governor, Hiedi Heidi Ganahl, did more than lie to Coloradans with the announcement of her Lieutenant Governor choice. In selecting Centennial businessman Danny Moore to be her running mate, Ganahl undercut one of her regular attacks on incumbent Democratic Gov. Jared Polis. Ganahl often alleges — without any evidence — that Polis […]
Last week, as readers know, two defeated Republican candidates who had run for higher office this year more or less on single-issue campaigns to relitigate the 2020 presidential election, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and state Rep. Ron Hanks, requested recounts in the races they both lost by substantial margins alleging that the result had […]
UPDATE: Wherefore art thou, Felix? —– Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl (finally) announced her Lieutenant Governor running mate on Monday morning. It was not who she said it would be. Earlier this month, Ganahl said on a right-wing radio show that she would name on July 7 an Hispanic male as her running mate […]
That’s the word from Matt Connelly’s Republican agit-prop website Campfire Colorado–more than a week after GOP gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl’s originally scheduled announcement of her pick for lieutenant governor last Thursday crashed and burned, with apparent first choice Las Animas County Commissioner Felix Lopez catching a case of much too publicly cold feet, another […]
Former Republican District Attorney George Brauchler has repeatedly earned the title of “The Magnificent Putz” here at Colorado Pols for his almost superhuman ability to make stupid mistakes, offensive statements, and ridiculous arguments — either in politics or in legal matters. Brauchler is no longer in elected office (thankfully), nor is he a candidate for […]
West Virginia “Democratic” Sen. Joe Manchin is every Republican’s favorite Senator. He showed why again on Thursday, as The Washington Post reports: Manchin told Democratic leaders Thursday he would not support an economic package that contains new spending on climate change or new tax increases targeting wealthy individuals and corporations, marking a massive setback for […]
Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea was looking for a way to visually convey the fact that he is a regular Coloradan through and through. Joe O’Dea wants you to truly understand that he knows what you’re going through because he has been in your horse shoes. So he posted this picture to his Facebook account: […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman is up in arms about homeless people coming to Aurora from Douglas County, despite saying last year that he hoped Aurora’s camping ban would result in Aurora’s unhoused population migrating from Aurora to “another community.” “No jurisdiction should export their homeless to another jurisdiction without that jurisdiction […]
UPDATE: It gets worse. Of course it does. According to a press release from the non-partisan Colorado District Attorney’s Council: The Colorado District Attorneys’ Council and the remaining 21 district attorneys are dedicated to ensuring that all criminal matters pending in this jurisdiction are handled in a professional manner and that all victims of crime […]
A report from Steamboat Radio has the latest in what could be a never-ending saga of denial and bad faith, as the two Colorado Republican candidates most closely identified with the conspiracy theory positing that Donald Trump should still be President of the United States refuse as promised to accept the results of GOP primary […]
UPDATE: As The Intelligencer at New York Magazine reports, Trump has already decided to run for President in 2024. The only question left is when he announces his intentions: “Do I go before or after? That will be my big decision,” he said. He was thinking aloud now. “I just think that there are certain […]
UPDATE #2: Denver7’s Blair Miller reports: On Thursday afternoon just before 1 p.m., Steinberg filed a motion to quash the arrest warrant and a request for a hearing with the court, primarily arguing that he had not seen the judge’s July 11 order by the time she had left and that he did not properly […]
Earlier this year we posted a bracket-style look at the worst major political campaigns in the last two decades in Colorado. The Winningest Loser in our bracket was Republican Bob Beauprez’s disastrous campaign for Governor in 2006, but we noted at the time that 2022 Republican gubernatorial nominee Hiedi Heidi Ganahl was making a run […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: The Glenwood Springs Post-Independent confirms the end of Shooter’s Grill as we know it, though freshman GOP rolling calamity Rep. Lauren Boebert hints that (threatens?) some kind of “smaller scale” establishment may replace it. No promises: Boebert said she doesn’t want to make any promises, but she and her husband, Jayson, are praying […]
Readers of Colorado Pols have traditionally been pretty good at predicting the outcome of key races in a given election (although readers didn’t so so well in the Primary Election last month). It’s time to start our General Election polling to get a sense of how perceptions of various races might shift over time as […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, a new arrest followed by felony charges filed against a third Mesa County Clerk’s office employee in the case of Clerk Tina Peters’ alleged breach of election system security, and other assorted felony and misdemeanor misconduct in a misguided attempt to prove the 2020 presidential election was […]
A story last week from the Colorado Springs Gazette’s veteran political reporter Marianne Goodland takes a look at the post-primary Colorado House Republican caucus, which has seen some significant changes as a slate of candidates supported by the notorious Rocky Mountain Gun Owners went down in defeat on June 28th, and incumbent members of the […]
The Jan. 6 House committee hearings are again leading the national headlines. Today’s star witness is former White House Counsel Pat Cippolone, who described details of an “unhinged” Oval Office meeting on Dec. 18 that presaged former President Trump’s infamous Tweet later that night (early morning Dec. 19) calling on supporters to come to Washington […]
The right-wing Washington Times reports on GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn’s latest culture war axe to grind: A State Department grant of $500,000 to fund the promotion of the rights of atheists and other nonbelievers in the Near East and South-Central Asia has drawn fire from more than a dozen members of Congress who say the […]
Democrat Phil Weiser is seeking another term as Attorney General in 2022, and he’s making it very clear where his policy priorities stand on several key issues. Weiser was a guest on “Colorado Matters” with Colorado Public Radio interviewer extraordinaire Ryan Warner today. The incumbent AG left no doubt that he plans to protect the […]
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We wrote and updated at length on Thursday as yet another stupendous uncontained public relations failure played out in Republican gubernatorial nominee Hiedi Heidi Ganahl’s campaign. After announcing to multiple radio outlets that she would make her selection for lieutenant governor public Thursday, saying “he’s a great Hispanic leader from rural Colorado,” word of Las […]
It’s been over a week since the November election field was set in the June 28th primary elections, but you wouldn’t know it from the virtual absence of press coverage in what’s expected to be Colorado’s–and perhaps the nation’s–hottest congressional race for the state’s new CD-8. After a feisty three-way contest between Weld County Commissioner […]
We’ve been meaning to write something about control of the State Senate in Colorado now that the Primary Election is over. Sandra Fish at The Colorado Sun beat us to it, so we’ll start there: Democrats now hold a 20-15 advantage in the Senate. They are guaranteed 12 seats, with 11 holdovers and one Democratic […]
UPDATE (4:11 pm): We’ve been trying to think through how this all went so awry for the Ganahl campaign. The only thing that really made sense is that perhaps Felix Lopez rejected Ganahl’s offer to be her running mate. If Lopez backed out at the last minute, it would be plausible that Ganahl’s campaign was in […]
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