(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 switch by sputtering Republican incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert from the Third Congressional District seat she wrested from her predecessor “Sleepy” Scott Tipton in 2020 to run for the Fourth District seat being vacated by Rep. “KenSNBC” Buck, a race that already had a slew of candidates in the mix when Boebert made her switch […]
The Expanded Child Tax Credit (ECTC) has long been one of Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet’s signature issues. The program was actually implemented for a brief period of time and proved to be incredibly successful. Nationwide, the child poverty rate more than DOUBLED less than a year after the CTC expired at the end of 2021. […]
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” –Edmund Burke
FRIDAY UPDATE: As the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Marianne Goodland reports, that didn’t take long: In case you were wondering how long it would take for the shenanigans of the 2023 legislative session to show up in 2024, the answer is: Day 3. House Republicans launched a brief filibuster Friday morning over House Bill 24-1084, which […]
Ain’t no party like a Colorado Republican Party because a Colorado Republican Party don’t stop! We have yet another new internal battle to report, but first…for Colorado Republicans, 2024 is (again) the year of infighting: ♦ State Republican Party Chair Dave Williams vs. Everybody Else in CO-05! ♦ In CO-04, it’s Lauren Boebert vs. Jerry […]
As CNN’s Lauren Fox reports, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is facing a revolt from conservative lawmakers, incensed that America’s “First MAGA Speaker” has cut a spending deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that will not fulfill the Freedom Caucus’ impossible vision of drowning the federal government in the bathtub: Johnson…faced backlash […]
At this time last year, the 2024 election cycle in Colorado was looking like it might be pretty uneventful. After all, 2024 won’t have a major statewide race on the ballot, and while it is a Presidential Election year, Colorado is such a solid-blue state in that regard that neither Democrats nor Republicans are going […]
Colorado Republicans have had trouble winning elections in Colorado for more than a decade, but the damage has dialed up exponentially in recent election cycles. Republican candidates have been absolutely throttled at the ballot box in every election since 2018, culminating in a 2022 cycle that one ousted lawmaker labeled an “extinction-level event.” You don’t […]
Congressman Doug Lamborn’s retirement announcement means that for the first time that we can remember, all of Colorado’s Republican-held Congressional seats will be open in the same election cycle. There will likely be at least two dozen Republicans running in a GOP Primary in “safe” Republican districts in CO-03, CO-04, and now CO-05. But why […]
UPDATE: Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette is first to report that Colorado Republican Party chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams is considering another run for the now open CD-5–after he makes one important phone call: Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams, the former state legislator who lost a primary challenge against Lamborn in […]
(The war on furversion continues — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Heidi Ganahl, failed gubernatorial candidate and host of the “Unleashed” podcast, has a new project in the works, one that aims to help Republicans regain control in Colorado. The former CU regent has already secured significant funding from prominent GOP donors, including Walter “Buz” Koelbel, […]
As the Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul reports, the heavily congested race to succeed retiring Rep. Ken Buck in Colorado’s safely red Fourth Congressional District added yet another contender to the mix this morning as Colorado House Minority leader Mike Lynch threw his designer cowboy hat in the ring: “I’m sick of being represented by people […]
As Sudiksha Kochi at USA TODAY reports, Colorado’s pinballing portrait of perturbation Rep. Lauren Boebert, fresh from last week’s gobsmacking switcheroo from CD-3 to the on-paper friendlier confines of Colorado’s crimson-red CD-4, is trying to explain away her most likely career-ending move by blaming Hollywood celebrities who have donated to the campaign of Boebert’s erstwhile […]
The stunning news Wednesday that America’s Most Vulnerable™ Rep. Lauren Boebert was transplanting her reality TV show re-election campaign from Colorado’s R+9 Third Congressional District to the R+∞ Fourth District currently represented by retiring Rep. Ken Buck, thus sidestepping the much-anticipated rematch between Boebert and Democratic challenger Adam Frisch, left Boebert’s Republican primary challenger Jeff […]
Republican Congressperson Lauren Boebert has been on a downward trajectory ever since she barely won re-election in 2022 by a razor-thin 546 votes in CO-03. Her odds of winning a third term in 2024 began plummeting after her infamous Beetlebert scandal and the subsequent campaign of Republican Jeff Hurd, whom establishment Republicans have been rushing […]
In the 36 hours since the Colorado Supreme Court announced their ruling disqualifying ex-President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in this state under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition of individuals who engaged in insurrection from running for elected office, there’s been an explosion of anger and threats on social media such […]
Yesterday’s ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court disqualifying ex-President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in Colorado based on Trump’s participation in an insurrection against the federal government on January 6th, 2021 has provoked a discomforting firestorm of backlash and even threats of secession and civil war from supporters of the ex-President. As the Colorado […]
Back in September, the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reported on the first few Republican elected officials in Rep. Lauren Boebert’s district who flipped to support Boebert’s Republican primary opponent after Boebert’s ejection from a Denver performance of the Beetlejuice musical for vaping and various other inappropriate behaviors. As of that writing, state Sen. Janice […]
We wrote last week about efforts from Colorado House Speaker Julie McCluskie to help make the workplace culture at the State Capitol a little less acrimonious by changing some House Committee assignments — notably the removal of Reps. Elisabeth Epps and Bob Marshall from the coveted House Judiciary Committee. Despite McCluskie’s efforts, another freshman Democrat […]
It’s the news we’ve been anticipating ever since word first broke of Monument-based conservative whacktivist Darcy Shoening’s campaign to make Colorado’s the second state Republican Party to formally endorse Donald Trump, well in advance of the Super Tuesday primary. Unless you’ve been purposefully blocking it out, you already know Trump is leading the Republican primary […]
When the United States Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v Wade in June 2022, it sparked nationwide outrage that cost Republicans dearly in the 2022 election and has continued to complicate GOP electoral interests in even the reddest of states. In the 18 months since Roe was overturned — thus removing national protections for abortion […]
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One of the principal criticisms of Colorado’s Tasmanian devil of controversy Rep. Lauren Boebert is that she spends too much of her time on wedge-issue grandstands and political sideshows like the half-baked impeachment of Joe Biden, and not enough time on issues actually pertinent to the people and economy of the vast expanse of Colorado […]
As you probably already know, Congressman Ken Buck (R-Greeley) is among the more than three dozen Republican incumbents in Congress who are not seeking re-election in 2024. That makes the fourth congressional district one of the more interesting races to watch in Colorado — at least through a Republican Primary Election — in an otherwise […]
As the Washington Post’s Liz Goodwin reports, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced today that he is dropping most of his unilaterally imposed holds on military promotions, ending an impasse that had become a major bipartisan controversy as frustrated fellow Republicans finally joined with Democrats to demand Tuberville’s ten-month grandstand end: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) announced […]
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