(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%
As Aldo Svaldi reports for The Denver Post, there is no grievance too small for retribution in Donald Trump’s Republican Party: The U.S. Small Business Administration confirmed Thursday that it would pull regional offices from Denver and five other large “sanctuary cities” over their unwillingness to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [Pols emphasis] […]
The Aurora Sentinel’s Cassandra Ballard reports today on the fallout over Tuesday night’s address by President Donald Trump to a joint session of Congress, in which the long-debunked and reborn falsehoods about the supposed “takeover” of the city of Aurora by migrant gangs continued to flow freely from the presidential piehole: During his speech to […]
While Democrats like Rep. Jason Crow host capacity crowd town halls full of constituents angry over the Trump 2.0 administration’s bulldozing of the federal government since taking office in January, Republicans have been advised by their leadership to avoid in-person events where the public can ask unscripted questions–or at least switch to telephone-based town halls, […]
Economic news continues to darken faster than JD Vance’s eyeliner. As CNN reports today: The Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoff plans last month, new data showed Thursday. US-based employers last month announced plans to slash 172,017 jobs, a 103% increase from a […]
UPDATE: After some six hours of testimony, today’s circus hearing has concluded. As Kyle Clark reports for 9News, not much happened: Colorado Republicans were THIRSTY for viral moments from today’s hearing, but none of them (Boebert, Crank, and Evans) were able to come up with anything memorable. Congressman Jeff Hurd left the proceedings without speaking. […]
President Trump will deliver a joint address to Congress tonight in which he will likely lie his ass off about a whole bunch of topics. One subject he will have trouble avoiding is the increasingly-worrisome state of the economy. From The New York Times: Global stocks tumbled on Tuesday as investors’ concerns over the future […]
Following the passage last week of the Republican framework budget resolution setting the stage for massive cuts to funding for a broad range of vital government services like Medicaid, Colorado Public Radio’s John Daley took a detailed look at the impact of the expected cuts on individual congressional districts across the state. And as we’ve […]
(Saine is in — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Former Weld County Commissioner Lori Saine plunged into the race to be the next leader of the Colorado Republican Party last night, saying that “America-First policies” will put Republicans back in power here. “I’m Lori Saine and I am running […]
To the extent that the capacity for outrage still exists in Washington, D.C. today as Donald Trump’s second term leaves jaws agape on a fatiguingly continuous basis, the historic-in-a-bad-way meeting today between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump with Vice President J.D. Vance riding shotgun has once again left literally everyone in the world […]
As Ali Longwell reports for Grand County’s Sky-Hi News, the current and prospect of many more layoffs as part of the Trump administration’s Elon Musk–engineered reduction in force of federal employees, many of them seemingly without regard to the important responsibilities of these workers leading in some cases to their rehiring, continues to cause alarm […]
Former Colorado State House Speaker Crisanta Duran has decided to seek the Democratic nomination for Attorney General in 2026. But as The Colorado Sun reports, she’s going to need to make a lot of new introductions: Duran hasn’t been in the political spotlight in Colorado for several years. She served as speaker from 2017 to […]
“When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.” –Muhammad Ali
President Trump’s mass deportation promise has thus far not lived up to its fantastical billing, and Trump is reportedly growing upset about the “numbers” being reported back to the White House. As Reuters explains: President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished U.S. Department of Homeland Security data show, […]
UPDATE: Statement from Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser: Attorney General Phil Weiser issued the following statement on today's unanimous ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court ordering the Weld County Board of County Commissioners to adopt a district map that follows state redistricting statutes. pic.twitter.com/8g60dpNlvk — Colorado Attorney General (@COAttnyGeneral) February 24, 2025 —– A press […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder National Harbor, MD– Brita Horn, candidate for chair of the Colorado GOP, has led the organizing of volunteers at CPAC for the past four years. “Colorado is really involved here,” Horn said. “They really do like CPAC. They really like the style of it.” […]
As we noted on Friday, House Republicans quite literally showed their asses during a several-hours long debate over whether or not to support a resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s blanket pardons of criminals convicted of various charges — including assaulting police officers — related to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. Rather than follow the lead […]
Colorado Democrats scheduled a noon rally today outside of the Northglenn office of Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Adams County), calling on the freshman Congressman to oppose the latest Republican budget proposal that would make at least $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. Some 1.1 million Coloradans rely on Medicaid to some degree — essentially 1 out […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…Sam Silverii is three weeks old, which is five days younger than the Trump Administration, and even he knows what’s going on in DC is bonkers. We check in with our 8th favorite soon-to-be-one-term member of Congress, who has spent his time in Washington hiding when he’s not […]
The Washington Post leads off our look today at two new polls that suggest public support for Donald Trump and the sweeping cuts at federal agencies being carried out by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is precipitously declining as the consequences of the first traumatic month of Trump’s second term sink in: President Donald […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally published at the Colorado Times Recorder Any Colorado voters who feel that Republicans did not spend enough energy attacking transgender people in prior election cycles can rejoice: anti-trans activist Rich Guggenheim has officially filed to run for the state’s 6th Congressional District in 2026. Guggenheim is the Colorado chapter leader […]
Regular readers of Colorado Pols are familiar with the lunacy that is Republican State Rep. “Boxwine” Brandi Bradley of Littleton, but in the last couple of weeks Bradley has really dialed up the crazy to another level. Bradley is now in her second term as a state representative, where she has regularly proven to be […]
As CNN reports, one of the final and most contentious pieces of President Donald Trump’s second Cabinet was narrowly confirmed by the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate this morning, and later today Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. will be sworn in as the director of the Department of Health and Human Services, consummating the alliance forged between the […]
USA TODAY reports on the confirmation today of one of the most controversial of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees, former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii to serve as Director of National Intelligence–a position with access to the nation’s deepest secrets, control over American intelligence and covert operations around the world, and too many other […]
President Donald Trump campaigned heavily in 2024 on promises to lower the cost of groceries (including eggs) and gasoline if given another term in the White House. Voters obliged, and then Trump promptly got started on…not doing a damn thing to lower costs for Americans. As CNBC notes in a detailed chart, the cost of […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium today to do the bidding of President Trump and/or Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the war in Ukraine. Hegseth made it clear that the new administration in the White House is not exactly pro-Ukraine. As NBC News reports: Hegseth said Wednesday that it is […]
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