UPDATE 6:30PM: In a stunning upset, “Election Truther” U.S. Senate candidate Ron Hanks holds all his assembly rivals below the 30% threshold. Say goodbye to Deborah Flora, Gino Campana, Eli Bremer and everybody else except Joe O’Dea who qualified for the ballot via petition:
Ron Hanks: 38.96%
Deborah Flora: 28.93%
Eli Bremer: 14.7%
Gino Campana: 11.21%
Greg Moore: 3.19%
Peter Yu: 3.02%
We told you Ron Hanks is the center of gravity in the Republican Senate race.
We were more right than even we could have known.
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UPDATE 5:15PM: via Colorado Public Radio’s Andrew Kenney, U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Ron Hanks takes the stage to big cheers:
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UPDATE: GOP gubernatorial candidate Danielle Neuschwanger refuses to concede after narrowly missing the 30% threshold required to make the June 28th primary ballot:
Due to numerous delegates reporting fraudulent behavior during the vote today I will not be conceding until I have had ample time to investigate their claims.
Their concerns deserve to be addressed. Our movement is NOT stopping!
— Danielle Neuschwanger for Colorado Governor 2022 (@DanielleforCO) April 9, 2022
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First results are in at the Republican Party state assembly at the World Arena in Colorado Springs, where perennial candidate for governor Greg Lopez just narrowly bested CU Regent Heidi Ganahl to win top line on the June 28th primary ballot–and in the process narrowly shutting out upstart Danielle Neuschwanger, who came in just under the 30% required to stay in the game:
Greg Lopez: 34.34%
Heidi Ganahl: 32.63%
Lopez reportedly inspired delegates ahead of the vote with a speech promising to pardon indicted Mesa County Clerk/Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters if elected. Watch this space for updates, many more races (including Peters’) coming up.
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Ganahl should drop out of the race. She has not generated any momentum.
Best collection of GOP “talent” since Maes!
Based on this thread, Mr. Lopez is campaigning on a unique "law and order" platform. If you resist arrest by kicking a police officer (caught on video), he will pardon you once he is governor. He is substituting himself for the judge and jury before a case goes to trial on that charge and many others. He needs to answer what facts he has that exonerate Ms. Peters. I'm sure he can let us all in on the secret facts the rest of us have not seen.
And true to form, when a Republican candidate looses just claim fraud. Apparently, Republicans themselves are committing vote fraud. Who knew?
She really should sue the Republican Party.
I wish she would. Rudy's license is under suspension but is Sidney Powell still allowed inside any courtroom?
Release the kraken!
Two words: Jenna Ellis……
DANG!
Ich rechnete damit, dass der neue schwanger gewinnen würde.
STOP THE STEAL!
When you finish behind Lopez and barely ahead of the new Wanger, a great day this is not, Yoda says.
Ron Hanks got top line on Senate primary ballot. O'Dea also made ballot.
CPR reports
I’m impressed by the CPR choice of what to use as descriptors for Hanks: January 6 and his questioning of election validity.
Rumor has it Hanks wouldn't have won top line if they used watermarked ballots.
And at first decision, the Republican primary WON'T be limited to true believers … Marianne Goodland wrote this afternoon that "A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed a request for a preliminary injunction seeking to block unaffiliated voters from participating in the June 28 state primary. "
Well, I sure a hell won't be wasting my primary votes in the Dimocrat primaries.
Fun times.
And the R primary will have a full house of crazy … CS Gazette says
Can she hold office if she is convicted?
In today's GOP the biggest floaters always rise to the top!
Flora, who had the coveted endorsement from the junior senator from Texas, fell short of 30%.
Wow – after the general they'll be calling Colorado a Blue state as Democrats win every statewide race by a substantial margin.
And if Buck & Lamborn lose their primaries to the crazies against them, we'll have a full sweep of batshit insane Republicans in Congress.
What a picture that'll make to the rest of the country.
The craziness makes sense to a certain extent, no? Dems do have the upper hand in CO and nothing suggests that will change, soon. GOP moderates have thus lost the "we have to win elections" argument that tempers any party. The more we win, the whackier they get.
All you ever need to know about the place that gave us Ron Hanks as a public figure is right here: http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2014/04/10/ku-klux-klan-once-a-fremont-county-political-powerhouse/amp/
And your point is……..? Most of Colorado was either Klan run, or was heavily influenced by the Klan, during the 1920s. Why smear every resident of a county now, in 2022?
My point is that, as someone who spent decades living there, practically nothing about the mentality of the place has changed in the last 100 years. It’s still the same cesspool and breeding ground of vehement racism it always was.
Maybe you should move.
Cañon City isn’t, as CHB stated, by any means special. They used to hold cross-burnings on Mt. Lindo and the (Ben) Stapleton Administration was lousy with Klansmen.
Seems to be a clear media narrative:
It must be a conspiracy.
Littwin's off a bit: The big winners at the GOP Assembly yesterday were those who want to destabilize/delegitimize society to the point that only those with guns will be able to hold sway. The Big Lie is the wedge issue for that.
You are right on target. The so called conservatives aim to destabilize our political and social institutions by substituting a narrative grounded in things that never were. Their substitute, if adopted, would end mired in authoritarianism.
I'm now calling it "authoritarian conformism." Ask no questions, make no suggestions, just do as we say. Just like the Chinese Communist Party.
Or the Republican National Committee…
Where’s our little groundhog? I thought he’d have popped up by now to lecture us on who really scares us?
It's early.
Actually, they’r all pretty scary.
I dunno … but am sort of worried that Lang Sias might sneak into the Treasurer's office on a sympathy vote — people looking at the whole ballot, not wanting to back ALL Democrats or the the RWNJs faction of the Republican party. Hanks, Lopez, and Peters take a hit for being TOO Trumpy, Kellner/newcomer lose on merits to Weiser, … and many don't know what a Treasurer can do, so they vote for Sias.
You have to admit it’s a pretty impressive fete for a California immigrant who fancied himself as a moderate back in the day.
Any over-under on when Moddy gives Loren his 💯 %
endorsement kiss of death?In November, will anyone, anywhere stick to the narrative that only having Republicans in the primary somehow helps Republicans?
Or that caucus is not exclusionary and a colossal waste of time?