AG candidate Brauchler pushes through Colorado Springs as election day nears

The last leg of Republican attorney general candidate George Brauchler’s campaign is spread across the state – the size of which is not insignificant, he’s quick to mention.
“We’re the eighth-biggest state, … but feels like the fifth biggest,” Brauchler joked Friday afternoon in a GOP office on Colorado Springs’ north side.
About a dozen supporters served as Brauchler’s backdrop, holding campaign signs and offering well wishes to the candidate.
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The road to the attorney general seat passes through El Paso County, Brauchler said. Earlier in the day he visited Pueblo and he plans to head to Grand Junction next to encourage voters to cast their ballot.
“Victory is on someone’s kitchen counter right now,” Brauchler said.
While the last few days before the Nov. 6 election will consist of a “whirlwind” state tour, Brauchler still had the energy Friday to trade a few laughs with his supporters, tout a few of his priorities and loose a few jabs at his Democratic opponent, Phil Weiser.
Representatives of Weiser’s campaign did not respond to messages seeking comment.
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If elected, Brauchler said beating down the state’s black market marijuana and methamphetamine markets would be a top priority. He has previously said that decentralizing the office with regional offices across the state would support local law enforcement with that effort.
Flourishing his bona fides to that end, Brauchler, the 18th Judicial District Attorney, said the number of felony cases his office has filed in recent years has increased by about 50 percent.
He then compared his own experience to Weiser’s by saying he has spent the last 24 years “in the ring” while Weiser, a former University of Colorado Law School dean, spent those same years as a spectator.
Weiser is also a former official in the Department of Justice under Presidents Obama and Clinton.
Despite a pair of polls this week showing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis leading Republican Walker Stapleton, Brauchler said he’s still pulling for a GOP victory for the state’s head office.
But if Polis is elected alongside Brauchler, the Republican said he expects the two speak often over lunch and as the state’s attorney general he would defend the governor’s positions, even if he disagrees with them, so long as they are consistent with the state’s laws and constitution.
