(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
70%↑
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
UPDATE #13: After a brief gavel-in, the leaderless U.S. House is in recess until noon Eastern tomorrow. —– UPDATE #12: The GOP circus is officially in recess until 8:00 pm EST. —– UPDATE #11: Kevin McCarthy fails on Ballot #6 with the same number of Republicans (21) refusing to support his candidacy. House Republicans reportedly […]
UPDATE #9: Rep. Ken Buck, who was good enough to show up to work today, warns after three failed ballots that Kevin McCarthy is more likely to lose support in successive rounds of voting than turn things around: A warning sign for Kevin McCarthy: Conservative supporter Rep. Ken Buck told us he believes that it […]
Just one of several convergent storylines around the issue of abortion rights that we’ll be discussing in our ongoing recap of the top stories in Colorado politics for 2022 is the legislation passed this year by the Colorado General Assembly expressly codifying abortion rights into statute. This legislation was forced by the widely-expected and since-fulfilled […]
Hannah Metzger of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reports on a changing of the guard in Adams County, as Democratic stalwart Rep. Adrienne Benavidez resigns from her House District 35 seat: Though she didn’t mention her reason for resigning in the letter, Benavidez spoke on the increasing number of Latino lawmakers in the legislature. […]
(Would Jesus steal elections? — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado Christian University (CCU) is “honestly, the safest campus in Colorado because we’re deeply committed to Jesus,” said Jeff Hunt, a CCU leader on his podcast last month. “There’s not a lot of craziness going on.” Hunt didn’t respond to an email seeking data to back […]
It’s about to get really freaking cold in Colorado. Like, dangerously cold. Bundle up, people! Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to […]
UPDATE: The Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul: Burton Brown, a lawyer who got her start in politics as an anti-abortion advocate, took the helm at the Colorado Republican Party in March 2021 when the state GOP was at its lowest point since 1936. She sought to reverse the party’s losses in 2018 and 2020 through a […]
Almost ten years ago, a small number of rural Colorado counties led by conservative stronghold Weld County tried and mostly failed to pass ballot measures that would have, in theory, kicked off a process to secede from the state government in Denver. Since that time, secessionists in Oregon have enjoyed somewhat greater success, with a […]
Sandra Fish of The Colorado Sun outlined today some big-picture campaign spending takeaways from state races in Colorado, with the main takeaway being that Gov. Jared Polis was the biggest spender of them all in 2022. You can argue about what Polis’ self-funding means in relation to elections and campaign finance norms and whatnot, but […]
As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Anna Lynn Winfrey reports, a proposed ordinance in Pueblo that would have banned abortions in that city, modeling a local ordinance that has spread in other states lacking Colorado’s recently-passed robust abortion rights protections, is dead after a 4-3 vote to indefinitely table the measure: Council President Heather Graham, Vicente Martinez […]
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