New Year’s 2024 Weekend Open Thread
“I don’t have to have faith, I have experience.” –Joseph Campbell
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Maine Joins Colorado Booting Trump From 2024 Ballot
As the Washington Post’s Patrick Marley reports, Colorado is no longer the only state in the Union to have ruled that ex-President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for re-election under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment barring insurrectionists from playing democracy: Maine barred Donald Trump from the primary ballot Thursday, becoming the second state to […]
BREAKING: Trump Tossed Off Colorado’s 2024 Ballot
UPDATE #2: Statement from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington celebrates today’s ruling: Donald Trump is disqualified from serving as president and barred from appearing on ballots for president in Colorado under the 14th Amendment, according to a Colorado Supreme Court ruling issued today in a case brought on behalf of six Republican and […]
Abandon Ship! McCarthy, McHenry Lead GOP Exodus in 2024
UPDATE: Via Caitlyn Kim of Colorado Public Radio, the National Republican Senatorial Committee needs a proofreader: —– Republicans are in risarray. As The Washington Post reports, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is among a quickly-growing number of Congressional Republicans who are taking their “talents” someplace other than Capitol Hill: Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the former […]
Ken Buck Will Not Run Again In 2024
UPDATE #2: Here’s the final Buckpedal: —– UPDATE: Via The New York Times: “We lost our way,” said Mr. Buck, 64, who announced his intentions in interviews and a video news release. “We have an identity crisis in the Republican Party. If we can’t address the election denier issue and we continue down that path, we […]
Trump Makes 2024 Another Lost Cause for Colorado GOP
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 […]
Will Joe O’Dea Ride His Horse to Weld County in 2024?
Colorado Republicans apparently still think that it might be a good idea to get 2022 Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea to run for federal office again in 2024. That’s the very same Joe O’Dea who lost the 2022 U.S. Senate race to incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet by 15 points. POLITICO reports (again) about a potential […]
Nearly 50,000 Donors Fill Adam Frisch’s War Chest For 2024
Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reports: Adam Frisch, the Democrat seeking a rematch against Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, raised more than $1.7 million in the first quarter for his 2024 bid in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, his campaign said Thursday. The former Aspen City Council member received nearly 50,000 individual […]
Colorado May Have a Contested Statewide Race in 2024 After All
Democrat Lesley Smith announced on Thursday that she will not seek re-election to her statewide CU Regent seat in 2024 and will instead run for what will be an open seat in the state legislature. Smith will be running for the seat in HD-49, which is a safe Democratic district. This isn’t ordinarily the kind […]
Lauren Boebert To Get The “Full Cory Gardner” In 2024
NBC News reported Monday on the rollout by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee–DCCC or “D-Trip” if you want to say it like the cool kids–of their initial slate of 31 Republican-held seats races they’ll be working to flip in 2024. And after coming within 546 votes of losing her on-paper R+9 seat last November, Colorado’s […]