(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%
Former President Donald Trump already held the record of being the first current or former U.S. President to be indicted for a crime. Trump has probably now put that record forever out of reach after Monday’s big indictment in Georgia marked his FOURTH in just the last four months. Yet as Peter Baker explains for […]
As we noted in this space in June, Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams is trying to build an “alliance” with the Colorado Libertarian Party in an effort to prevent Libertarian candidates becoming “spoilers” in races that Republicans think they might otherwise be able to win. But in creating this alliance, Williams may also be […]
Many high-profile Republicans have publicly defended former President Donald Trump following his third — and perhaps most important — indictment related to his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election. Folks such as Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-ifle) and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have made ridiculous arguments, alleging that Trump didn’t do anything […]
The Supreme Court of the United States of America has been stuck in an ethical morass that continues to grow more problematic as more information becomes available. No other Supreme Court Justice epitomizes the corruption that is beginning to define SCOTUS more than Clarence Thomas, whose acceptance of lavish gifts and his blatant disregard for […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: We have a new addition to the list of things that Rep. Lauren Boebert finds confusing: Sarcasm. —– Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-ifle) has an irritating habit of regularly taking credit for federal funding in the third congressional district that she quite literally had NOTHING to do with acquiring. It happens so often, in […]
Republicans are still not learning their lesson on the issue of abortion rights. The big political news on Tuesday came out of Ohio, where voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure — dubbed “Issue 1” — that was a not-very-subtle attempt by right-wing interests to make it harder for abortion rights advocates to pass their own […]
We wrote last week about Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman’s embarrassingly ham-handed communications strategy revolving around his idea to turn the City of Aurora into a “strong mayor” government with — SURPRISE — Coffman himself as Aurora’s new supreme leader. Both the petition that got the “strong mayor” idea on the November ballot, and Coffman’s involvement, […]
(Just wow — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Even if he loses his law license due to his involvement in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, former Trump attorney John Eastman will continue working on Colorado Republican Party’s case to stop unaffiliated voters from participating in primary elections, according to a lead attorney on […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we don’t have a guest for the first time in awhile. That doesn’t mean we don’t have plenty to talk about, however. Former President Donald Trump has been indicted — again — this time for trying to stop the certification of an election he knew that he […]
The New York Times’ Carl Hulse reports today on the increasing use of the once-rare tools of censure and impeachment as conventional political weapons in the ongoing partisan warfare between Democrats and Republicans, alternating in and out of power at the whim of a deeply divided electorate: No president had been impeached for 130 years […]
[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”60%”]“I hope the media is not here, because we’re going to look terrible.” — State Rep. Anthony Hartsook (R-Douglas County), speaking at Saturday’s GOP Central Committee meeting.[/mantra-pullquote] Voting members of the Colorado Republican Party’s “central committee” met over the weekend and decided against opting out of a system that allows Unaffiliated […]
We can’t close out the week of news without a mention beneath the din of historic presidential indictments and local Republican existential crises of more positive headlines for Colorado’s freshman Rep. Yadira Caraveo, who as we’ve discussed in this space is following the low-drama high-productivity track that GOP sophomore self-immolator Rep. Lauren Boebert should be […]
Recent polling from Monmouth suggests that roughly 30% of Americans still believe that the 2020 Presidential Election was fraudulent in some manner. You can probably guess the political makeup of that 30% (it’s all MAGA, baby!) On the flip side, almost 60% of Americans believe that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump fair and square in 2020. […]
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman, a Republican, has served in elected office since basically just after the dinosaurs went extinct. This year, Coffman is running for re-election AND pushing a ballot initiative that would give the next Aurora Mayor — which he hopes will be him — significantly more power. As we discussed in this space […]
We took note yesterday of an interview conducted by far-right pseudonews talking head Grant Stinchfield of Colorado’s foremost MAGA cheerleader Rep. Lauren Boebert following ex-President Donald Trump’s indictment on criminal charges related to the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election and the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to disrupt […]
UPDATE: An unrepentant Rep. Lauren Boebert defends the 2020 coup attempt in a new interview yesterday, reciting the same barely-coherent set of disproven talking points she used in the 2022 GOP primary (below)–and hopes the indictment leads to eventual Trumpian triumph: Constitutional scholar Lauren Boebert explains how Trump was legally justified trying to overturn the […]
Bente Birkeland of Colorado Public Radio reports on the filing of the long-anticipated lawsuit in federal court from the Colorado Republican Party seeking to overturn Proposition 108, the initiative passed in 2016 allowing unaffiliated voters to take part in either party’s primary: The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Denver on Monday, alleges that Proposition […]
Following the announcement yesterday afternoon that the U.S. Space Command headquarters will not relocate to Alabama from Colorado Springs after two years of politically-motivated uncertainty manufactured by former President Donald Trump, Trump’s most indefatigable diehard supporter in the state’s congressional delegation Rep. Lauren Boebert praised President Joe Biden’s decision to reverse Trump’s last-minute act of […]
UPDATE #2: Never forget how Colorado GOP chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams bet against Colorado and lost, dragging the state party’s brand down with him: This will be an interesting follow-up. —– UPDATE: Nicely done, Rep. Brittany Pettersen: Sweet home Colorado 🚀 https://t.co/4KEhIFfALF — Brittany Pettersen (@pettersen4co) July 31, 2023 —– Colorado Public Radio’s […]
The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake took stock late last week of a recent shift in Colorado’s arch-conservative Rep. Ken Buck’s rhetoric concerning the mounting legal tribulations of former President Donald Trump–less in the way of Buck’s former unquestioning, often contorted defense of Trump, transitioning to something like an acknowledgment that Trump is indeed in hot […]
(Cross pollen-hate-ion — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Congresswoman Lauren Boebert promoted antisemitic alt-right conspiracist Jack Posobiec in a taxpayer-funded email to reporters. Yesterday’s official press release announced that Boebert had reintroduced her bill, the Protecting Free Speech Act, that she first proposed last year in response to a Dept. of Homeland Security project called the Disinformation Governance […]
(A must-read — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Vince Bzdek, the editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette, had already forced Megan Schrader to lower her ethical bar — as a journalist — well below her comfort level. Her months-long investigation of Republican Senate candidate Robert Blaha had been, as she tells it, gutted by Bzdek at […]
ABC News joined every business outlet in the land, even most of the Fox News family of partisan political news spin doctors, in reporting today on unassailably strong economic numbers for the first half of 2023: U.S. economic growth accelerated over three months ending in June, blowing past economist expectations and tamping down concerns about […]
Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck appeared on CNN yesterday to level some of the harshest criticism we seen from Buck yet against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, slamming McCarthy’s appeasement of the far right of the House caucus by encouraging impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden: Republican Rep. Ken Buck, a member of the conservative House Freedom […]
As the New York Times’ Colin Moynihan reports, Castle Rock entrepreneur and Republican activist Timothy Shea was sentenced in a New York federal court yesterday to just over five years in prison for his role in the “We Build The Wall” scam, launched in 2018 with a who’s-who of anti-immigrant hardliners singing the praises of […]
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