(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%
Republican George Brauchler has officially abandoned his bid for Governor in order to run for Attorney General. As the Colorado Springs Gazette reports this morning: George Brauchler, the 18th Judicial District Attorney, has decided to drop his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of Colorado for 2018. He first announced his decision to run last April. […]
A story from the Denver Business Journal’s Cathy Proctor, reporting from the Colorado Oil & Gas Association’s annual meeting is provoking…shall we say animated feedback from the industry’s critics, after COGA’s CEO Dan Haley (formerly of the Denver Post) turned his keynote into a bizarre and defensive spectacle that we do believe very few outside the oil and […]
Like most things in life, how we view important issues depends on our individual perspectives. This video from the Dutch show “Sunday With Lubach” should make everyone think a little differently about gun violence in the United States:
This time, the cancellations are real. Back in 2014, Sen. Cory Gardner filmed a campaign ad holding a letter he claimed was a “cancellation” of his family’s health coverage. It wasn’t true: Gardner never lost coverage, and the letter he was holding was a renewal notice. In October of this year, the Republican-controlled Congress failed […]
Inside, empty seats. Outside, a sea of red. Last Thursday’s Republican Party fundraiser starring Vice President Mike Pence in the Denver Tech Center was a powerful demonstration of how the momentum has shifted in less than a year since Trump prevailed in the 2016 election. Hundreds of protesters braved snow and frigid temperatures to express […]
With a good chance of at least some readers dropping out of society for the next few days to binge-watch the long-awaited new season of Stranger Things on Netflix, even Sen. Cory Gardner is getting into the zeitgeist: Hearing reports of a possible #UpsideDownWorld portal back this week. Not sure if it's true, but @Stranger_Things […]
So much for the “party of fiscal responsibility.” Last week, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate began the process of jamming through a massive tax cut that overwhelmingly benefits the richest people in this country at the expense of middle-class families. After spending months unsuccessfully trying to rob millions of Americans of health care, the GOP has […]
UPDATE #2: Denverite’s Erica Meltzer updates as the Colorado GOP weaves all over the road: However, later in the afternoon, GOP Executive Director Shana Banberger, said that tickets sold have already exceeded expectations of 400 attendees. She described the initial information as “inaccurate” without clarifying what, specifically, was wrong. (I’ve asked for that clarification, and […]
Trump can’t repeal the Affordable Care Act. So he’s trying to destroy health reform piece by piece. Last Friday, Trump issued a new rule that allows essentially any employer to refuse coverage for contraception if they have a “religious objection” to birth control. [1] This move will allow many more private employers to unjustly force […]
This weekend, Cory Gardner blew it. On Friday, a story in the New York Times revealed the truth about the latest Republican attack on the Affordable Care Act. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, who is the leader of GOP Senate campaign efforts in 2018, reportedly told fellow Republicans the real reason they must repeal health […]
“Zombie Trumpcare” is back. After trying and failing miserably to come up with a replacement for the Affordable Care Act that doesn’t do more harm than good, Republicans in the U.S. Senate are back with what’s being described as a “last ditch effort” to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a plan that would insure […]
Late last week, a scandal erupted after the official Twitter account for the Colorado Republican Party launched a “bizarre” and vicious attack on one of the nation’s oldest and most important civil rights watchdogs. [1] With racism and hatred against LGBT Americans on the rise since Trump took office, the Southern Poverty Law Center has […]
Denver7’s Blair Miller reports on approved health insurance premium increases announced today for the individual market in Colorado–plans that are more expensive for 2018 than they were this year, though not quite as bad as originally feared: Health insurance premiums for individual medical plans in Colorado will go up by an average of 26.7 percent […]
This morning, the Trump administration announced a decision that could result in the deportation of 800,000 “Dreamers”—17,000 of them right here in Colorado—who call America home and are Americans in every sense of the word that matters. Democrats, and even some Republicans like Rep. Mike Coffman in Colorado have called for protecting undocumented immigrants who […]
Even in the midst of political turmoil, external events sometimes force us to turn our focus to helping fellow Americans in need. This weekend, Hurricane Harvey struck the Gulf Coast of Texas, causing massive damage and flooding affecting millions of people. No matter what our political or cultural differences may be, we are all Americans, […]
In the last week, Trump has plunged to unthinkable new lows, refusing to condemn the white supremacists responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia and falsely insisting that “many sides” are responsible for the upsurge in hatred and racism that has swept the nation since he took office. This has happened too many times now […]
On Monday President Trump condemned white supremacists — two days after deadly protests in Charlottesville, VA sparked international outrage. Today, President Trump reversed course and tried to place equal blame on what he calls the “alt-left” for the violence in Virginia. As the New York Times reports: In a long, combative exchange with reporters at Trump Tower in […]
As tragedies like the events in Charlottesville this weekend prove once again, we have a long struggle ahead to stem the tide of racism and extremism in our nation and to protect the values that have made America great for generations. We will prevail, but we are reminded of the difficulty of this struggle and […]
After over a year and a half of avoiding public events like the plague, Sen. Cory Gardner has scheduled three open-admission town halls for tomorrow in Colorado Springs, Greeley, and finally on the campus of Colorado Christian University in Lakewood. The recommendation for all three of these town halls is to arrive as early as […]
An eagle-eyed reader forwarded us a photo reportedly taken yesterday in Anaheim, California: while Colorado’s senior U.S. Senator Michael Bennet holds public town halls across the state, Sen. Cory Gardner is celebrating the U.S. Senate’s votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act by going to Disneyland! Where he didn’t take questions, being busy (pardon us) picking […]
Last Friday, Cory Gardner got clobbered. After Trump’s new EPA director traveled to Durango last week to tour a Superfund cleanup site, a hastily-arranged press conference was scheduled featuring Sen. Cory Gardner, Sen. Michael Bennet, Gov. John Hickenlooper, and several other elected officials. Even though there was originally only five minutes set aside for questions, […]
You beat them again. Late last week, the far right’s latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed. Three Republican Senators—Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, and Sen. John McCain of Arizona—listened to their constituents, stood up to Donald Trump’s threats, and stopped their colleagues from passing a bill that […]
We’ve always been critical of Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) in this space. We’ve no reason to pretend otherwise. But our critique of Gardner is usually tied to specific actions or statements from Colorado’s junior Senator — such as his refusal to hold a town-hall meeting or his astonishingly poor judgment in sitting down for a discussion with […]
If you’re a reporter, what to do with U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO)? Assuming he gives you an interview (it took 9News weeks to get one), you’re facing a politician who’s apparently committed to not discussing any of the details of the GOP’s landmark Obamacare replacement bill. He won’t say what he likes, what he […]
Bad ideas die hard. After failing repeatedly to pass legislation to repeal the increasingly popular Affordable Care Act, Republicans in Washington are trying once again this week. This time, they’re trying to repeal health care reform without a replacement—something Sen. Cory Gardner recently said he wouldn’t support, despite the fact that he has voted for […]
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