(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%
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) This week, the Colorado Title Board approved two ballot initiatives targeting transgender people in Colorado. “Public Athletic Programs for Minors,” which would require transgender athletes to compete according to their sex assigned at birth in school or intramural athletics, and “Prohibit Certain Medical Procedures for Minors,” which would ban gender-affirming care […]
As ABC News reports–although Colorado’s struggling Rep. Lauren Boebert didn’t manage to disrupt President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last night as feared, ceding the spotlight in that regard to a MAGA hat-wearing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Boebert did raise some eyebrows for her deja vu-inducing face time with none other than expelled […]
We know, we know: It totally does seem like Republican Ron Hanks has been around FOR-EV-ER. But his 2024 campaign for Congress in CO-03 is only his third campaign in the last three election cycles (State House in 2020, U.S. Senate in 2022). Hanks has been doing some real thinking since we last saw him […]
NBC News reports, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s vow to stay in the 2024 presidential race indefinitely expired about twelve hours after the last polls closed on Super Tuesday: Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dropped out of the 2024 presidential race Wednesday after losing every state but Vermont in Super Tuesday’s primary contests, […]
We interrupt our coverage of Colorado political news for this big story from our caddy-corner neighbor to the southwest: Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who disaffiliated from the Democratic Party after emerging as a major roadblock to the Senate majority’s agenda two years ago, will retire instead of running for another term. Washington Post: Sen. Kyrsten […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Under questioning from a hard-line abortion opponent this morning, a Colorado congressional candidate said he’d support a national abortion ban, performing a perfect flip-flop from his answer to the exact same question in January. Asked by KNUS radio host Jeff Hunt this morning if he’d support a “national ban on abortions” […]
UPDATE: As expected, Bottoms’ “personhood” bill failed to make it out of committee. —– Republicans are in dangerous place, politically-speaking, on the issue of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and so-called “personhood” legislation that seeks to give a zygote the same rights as a walking, talking human being. Colorado Springs Republican Rep. Scott “There is No” Bottoms […]
Colorado Newsline’s Chase Woodruff reports this morning, it’s the outcome overwhelmingly expected after tough oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court last month–with Justices ruling unanimously that the state of Colorado cannot itself enforce the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution barring individuals who have engaged in insurrection from running for federal office. “Because the […]
UPDATE: The Colorado Sun’s Sandra Fish with initial reactions: “It’s unprecedented,” said Suzanne Taheri, a Republican strategist and Haley supporter who is a former deputy Colorado secretary of state. “It’s certainly unethical … (Wiliams is) targeting his own district to promote himself — using the money from the state fund.” Rich Sokol, a former Arapahoe […]
As The Washington Post reports, House Speaker “MAGA” Mike Johnson once again needed the help of Democrats in order to pass a ONE WEEK EXTENSION for funding critical government services: The House on Thursday approved legislation to extend the expiration date for federal funding later into March, sending the measure to prevent a partial government […]
As Bente Birkeland and Caitlyn Kim reported Wednesday for Colorado Public Radio: Former President Ronald Reagan famously quipped that the Eleventh Commandment was, “thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.” As Colorado GOP chair Dave Williams approaches his one-year anniversary in the job, it’s a commandment he regularly breaches. Under his leadership, Williams is […]
Colorado Public Radio’s Paolo Zialcita reports on the latest sordid chapter in transplanted but no less drama-infused GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s “American Life,” though we doubt Boebert’s biography will be updated to include developments since its publication. As readers know, Rep. Boebert’s tagline on her social media profile is that she is “Raising my boys […]
Retiring Rep. Ken “KenSNBC” Buck has substantially reduced his stockpile of friends on the right side of the aisle through his “evolution” away from support for the impeachment of President Joe Biden and more recently Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, while at the same time contributing greatly to the present state of historically unproductive disarray […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the incredibly cynical and evidence-free impeachment attempt against President Biden is failing, and now even Republicans are noticing; as it turns out, when the leader of your party is a 91-time indicted twice convicted obvious crook, trying to play both sides against a guy like Joe Biden […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) This article first appeared in the Colorado Times Recorder. The Leadership Program of the Rockies (LPR) held its annual retreat this weekend at the Broadmoor Hotel, the historic Colorado Springs hotel, resort, and conference center owned by billionaire conservative activist Phil Anschutz. LPR, Colorado’s premiere conservative political training program, is known […]
We wrote last week about the devastating opinion by the Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos had the same rights as actual people. That decision has created chaos for families who hope to conceive children through the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF) — which often uses frozen embryos for this very purpose. From […]
Colorado Public Radio’s veteran Capitol correspondent Bente Birkeland reports on seething acrimony from certain excitable members of the GOP House micro-minority, over bills this year that pertain to the decidedly not intertwined issues of protecting LGBTQ+ rights and penalties for crimes related to human trafficking and sexual assault on minors. The fact that we are […]
Pueblo Republican Stephen Varela is one of those politicians who seem to exist in a perpetual state of shadiness. The latest trouble for “Shady Steve” may finally be the one that sinks him. As Sam Tabachnick reports today for The Denver Post, Varela’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress in CO-03 would seem to […]
As the Denver Post’s Saja Hindi reports, the last remaining Republican primary challenger to a resurgent Donald Trump, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, is headed to Denver next week for what could be a swan song campaign stop: Haley’s campaign confirmed in an email that she will attend the event, which starts at 1:30 […]
As Jesse Paul reports for The Colorado Sun, Republican congressional candidate Jerry Sonnenberg has picked up some notable new endorsements in his bid for the GOP nomination in CO-04: Cory Gardner reentered Colorado’s political conversation Wednesday to endorse former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg in the crowded Republican primary in the state’s 4th Congressional District, a […]
As CNN reports–for a party that considers itself the defenders of American sovereignty against evil foreign influences on all sides, the Republican Party sure seems to wind up doing the bidding of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service an awful lot. We’re not talking today about the 2016 presidential elections, in which Russian intelligence played a […]
As reporter Hannah Metzger writes for Westword today, one of Colorado’s most infamous conservative activists, former state Rep. Doug “Mr. TABOR” Bruce, is officially jumping into the CD-5 primary for retiring Rep. Doug Lamborn’s seat after signaling his intention to do so early this month: Rumors have swirled for weeks that Bruce could join the […]
Former President Donald Trump might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but when it comes to political strategy, he’s definitely aware of avoiding the bigger landmines. And ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, no issue has been more fraught for Republicans than that of abortion rights. Since […]
ABC News reports on new and potentially damning information obtained by the House Ethics Committee validating longstanding allegations against Rep. Matt “Giggity” Gaetz of Florida of sex trafficking and payment of women both above and below the age of consent for sexual favors. Gaetz’s alleged partner in sex crime, former Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg, has […]
On paper, the race for Colorado’s Eighth Congressional District should be attracting the top tier of Republican challengers to run against Democratic incumbent Rep. Yadira Caraveo, who won this newly created seat by a slim margin in 2022–with some help from a Libertarian candidate who drew more votes than Caraveo’s margin of victory. But that […]
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