(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
While President Donald Trump and the conservative mediasphere celebrate their “big win” in high-stakes negotiations with Mexico under the threat of punitive sanctions to reduce undocumented immigration into the United States via that country, the New York Times was obliged to pop the bubble: The deal to avert tariffs that President Trump announced with great […]
(To get the full multimedia effect of this blog post, we suggest listening to “Ride of the Valkyries” in the background as you read). President Trump’s threat to impose new tariffs on Mexico — which are widely considered to be an economic disaster waiting to happen — become reality on Monday. Naturally, Sen. Cory Gardner […]
We do our best to keep abreast of the latest political scuttlebutt as compiled by our various political newsrooms into weekly newsletter offerings, but like an unfortunate number of news consumers out there we sometimes don’t always make it all the way through every single such roundup every single week–particularly when there’s nothing in the […]
Congress is nearing the end of its Memorial Day recess, which began last Friday and continues through this weekend. It’s been a busy break for most of Colorado’s Congressional delegation. Many of Colorado’s Congresspeople used this “district work period” to meet with constituents and local groups. Freshman Reps. Joe Neguse (D-Lafayette) and Jason Crow (D-Aurora) […]
If Senator Cory Gardner wants to win his tough re-election fight next year, there’s really no constituency he can ignore–which helps explain why he’s all over the map on so many issues. But over a decade in Congress, and especially since entering the Senate, Gardner has allied himself closely with the one sector of society […]
Republican lawmakers in Alabama this week passed the most restrictive abortion law in the country as part of an effort to ultimately force the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade. For obvious reasons, Alabama’s new law has thus been one of the biggest political topics of the week and will likely continue to dominate […]
Squelched locally under the crush of news at the end of Colorado’s legislative session late last week, another embarrassing defeat for the Trump administration with the withdrawal of Wall Street Journal columnist Stephen Moore from consideration for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board was the talk of Washington–as CBS News reported Thursday: “Steve Moore, […]
As the Denver Post’s Justin Wingerter reports, the state’s two senior Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate are calling for the resignation of Attorney General William Barr, as a standoff between Barr and the House over what’s become generally recognized as a brazen cover-up of damning evidence in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on […]
There are currently 20 incumbent Senate Republicans seeking re-election in 2020. None of them — not one — has a lower approval rating among Republican voters than Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma). These are some remarkable numbers, as Morning Consult explains: Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) is the least popular Republican with his home base, with […]
A long-form Politico story out today gives us some of the first detailed answers from Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado about the now-concluded investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections–an investigation that, despite a vigorous attempt by the White House to spin the final report’s conclusions, revealed deeply […]
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