Running Diary of the Gubernatorial Debate
Colorado Confidential has a long running diary of last night’s gubernatorial debate.
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Boebert Challenged Vigorously In First Debate, Vows No More
Yesterday, quasi-incumbent carpetbagging Rep. Lauren Boebert faced off against her Democratic opponent Trisha Calvarese in a debate hosted by the Douglas County Economic Development Corporation and the conservative-leaning Colorado Springs Gazette. As we discussed last week, this debate was not broadcast on television and was not open to the public, severely limiting its value to […]
Boebert’s Opponent Trisha Calvarese Wants Lots Of Televised Debates
After winning the Republican primary to take over Ken Buck’s deep-red conservative congressional seat, Rep. Lauren Boebert has been on carpetbagging cruise control, spending more time helping her friends like Rep. Matt Gaetz keep their seats than campaigning for her own election. Boebert’s Democratic opponent Trisha Calvarese, who bested a troubled perennial candidate for the […]
Gabe Evans Deletes “Trump Debate Money Bomb” Post
Here’s a post that went up on CO-08 Republican congressional nominee Gabe Evans’ Facebook page last Thursday, asking supporters to join Evans in “supporting President [Donald] Trump before he takes the stage.” During the primary election that Evans wound up winning handily, Trump’s endorsement of Evans–contrary to that of the Colorado Republican Party, which endorsed […]
So, Uh, How About that Presidential Debate!
If you’re reading these words there is a strong chance you are the sort of person who watched the first Presidential debate of 2024 on Thursday evening. If you watched that debate, you saw what everyone else saw: President Biden looked pretty bad. Biden’s performance was a shock to the system for many folks who […]
Let’s Get Ready to Bumble: Previewing Tonight’s Big CO-04 Debate
Tonight at 6:00 pm, the “Republican Women of Weld” (WOW) and The Lincoln Club of Colorado will host the most consequential political debate Colorado has seen in years: The first big verbal showdown between the gazillion candidates running for the congressional seat in CO-04 being vacated by the retirement of Rep. Ken Buck. [*Note: WOW […]
GOP Veep Debate: A Sad Spectacle of MAGA Meh
Last night, a group of would-be Republican presidential candidates held a debate in Milwaukee, an event most notable for the absence of the far-and-away frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination ex-President Donald Trump. The eight candidates who appeared are all mired in a single-digit pack after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ failure to thrive, with at […]
Gazette Brings Conversion Therapy “Debate” Back To Life
In 2019, the Colorado General Assembly passed a prohibition on what’s known as “conversion therapy” performed upon minors, the widely-denounced pseudo-psychological counseling intended to rid the patient of “unwanted” homosexual desires under the presumption that homosexuality is a mental disorder. This bill passed after years of unsuccessful debate over similar measures that resulted in the […]
What You Need to Know from the First Gubernatorial Debate
Governor Jared Polis and Republican challenger Hiedi Heidi Ganahl squared off on Wednesday night in Pueblo for the first gubernatorial debate of the 2022 General Election. To the extent that there were any fireworks, they were more like mini sparklers than anything that went ‘boom.’ Wednesday’s forum was missing much of the suspense and build […]
Abortion Debate: 24 Hours of Republicans Showing Their Asses
As the Denver Post’s Alex Burness reports, the big story coming out of the weekend is the record-setting debate in the Colorado House over the Reproductive Health Equity Act, legislation to codify abortion rights in statute ahead of the widely-feared overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision later this year: Colorado Republicans […]
Tracker’s Delight: Don’t Miss Saturday’s Red Meat Senate Debate
The Republican gaggle of (as of now) B-List candidates running for the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet are gearing up for a number of public forums over the next few weeks. Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reported last week: The Republican primary race for Colorado’s U.S. Senate […]
ICYMI: Desperate Gardner Speeds Through 3rd Senate Debate
The candidates for U.S. Senate in Colorado — Republican Sen. Cory Gardner and Democrat John Hickenlooper — took part in the third of four planned debates on Friday evening. Sponsored by Denver7, The Denver Post, and Colorado Public Radio, this 90-minute debate was more substantial than the first debate between the two candidates but stuck […]
Rope-A-Dope: Cory Gardner Tries Too Hard In First Debate
Friday evening, as readers know, Colorado’s U.S. Senate candidates met in Pueblo for the first of several scheduled debates. Friday’s event was not televised, but was live-streamed with somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 people tuned in at any given time. The relative lack of viewership compared to subsequent debates which are expected to be […]
The Senate Debate Is Still On. What’s Cory Gardner Going To Say?
UPDATE: The tests have been taken: Ahead of tonight’s #cosen debate in Pueblo, @SenCoryGardner and @Hickenlooper are getting tested for COVID-19. What happens if either tests positive? 🤷🏼♂️ Hickenlooper campaign statement below. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/Q44qPNFH40 — Marshall Zelinger (@Marshall9News) October 2, 2020 —– CBS4 Denver reports ominously: There are new coronavirus concerns surrounding Amy Coney Barrett’s […]
Gardner Pumps Trump Pre-Debate–But You Probably Won’t See
This is a clip of video released yesterday by Gray TV, a company that owns local television stations in numerous mostly smaller media markets across the country. In Colorado, Gray TV owns KKTV, the CBS channel in the Colorado Springs market, and KKCO in Grand Junction. KKTV hasn’t posted the video above on their own […]
It’s Official: “Q*Bert” Doesn’t Want To Debate
Colorado Public Radio reports on two more debates in Colorado’s red-hot Third Congressional District race that aren’t happening, and once you sort through the back-and-forth it’s clear why: because Republican candidate Lauren Boebert doesn’t want them to happen. “We challenged Lauren to a debate to be hosted by the Pueblo Chieftain and a forum hosted […]
Warren Utterly Dominates Vegas Debate–What’s Next?
Although we are predominately concerned with Colorado politics in this space, our upcoming Super Tuesday date with destiny has all eyes in Colorado squarely focused on every development in the Democratic presidential primary–and last night, by all accounts, something dramatic happened at the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas that could have far-reaching effects on […]
What’s Next for Democrats Who Missed Debate Cut?
The field of candidates for the next Democratic Presidential debate is set, with 10 hopefuls invited to the stage in Houston on September 12. Several candidates who failed to meet the threshold to qualify for the Houston debate — 130,000 individual donors and a 2% polling average in at least four DNC-approved polls — have […]
Bennet Competent In Prez Debate Swan Song
Colorado Public Radio reports on how Colorado’s other Democratic presidential contender Sen. Michael Bennet did in last night’s debate–like former Gov. John Hickenlooper the night before, doing what he could with the limited face time he was bound to get on a stage full of big names. And while there weren’t any flubs from Bennet, […]
Democratic Presidential Debate 1, Night 2 Open Thread
For Colorado’s presidential aspirants Sen. Michael Bennet and former Gov. John Hickenlooper, tonight’s the night to shine! The same is no less true for all those other folks, but our local boys have everything to gain tonight and not much to lose. Your personal definition of “make us proud” may vary, but here’s hoping they […]
Democratic Presidential Debate 1, Night 1 Open Thread
UPDATE: We just noticed this, so apologies if we’re late to the party. One of these men is Democratic Presidential candidate John Delaney. The other is former President Gerald Ford. It’s okay if you’re kinda creeped out by this. We are, too. —– 10 will enter, 10 will leave. And our Colorado boys […]
Tightening Debate Qualifications Put “Benkenlooper” On Notice
CNN reports, the winnowing’s got to start some time: The Democratic National Committee will double the qualifying thresholds and require that 2020 candidates meet both in order to participate in the third and fourth primary debates, the committee announced Wednesday. Candidates had to achieve 1% in three polls from an approved list of pollsters or […]
DMB Comes Out Swinging At Club 20 Debate
As the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent’s Matthew Bennett reports, the Democratic candidate running in CD-3, former state Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, surprised attendees at this weekend’s Club 20 candidates debates with a strong performance that called out incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton on a broad range of issues relevant to the district: Club 20, billed as the […]
Mike Coffman Takes All Sides in Immigration Debate
Congressional Republicans have been flailing around in the last few days trying to both express concern over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy while also making sure to avoid proposing any sort of actual change to enforcement efforts that are separating thousands of children from their families (well, except for Rep. Ken Buck, anyway). Democrats, […]
Walker Stapleton Ducks “Colorado Decides” Debate
Last week we wrote up one of our world-famous “Debate Diaries” from an appearance by Democratic gubernatorial candidates at the “Colorado Decides” series sponsored by Colorado Public Television, CBS4 Denver, KOA NewsRadio and KUNC. “Colorado Decides” held its debate with Republican candidates on Wednesday, and State Treasurer Walker Stapleton was nowhere to be found. Host Dominic Dezzutti was […]