Kamala Harris defeats Donald Trump in contest for state’s electoral votes | COLORADO’S 2024 ELECTION

This combination of photos shows Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, speaking at a campaign event Sept. 25, 2024, in Mint Hill, N.C., and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, speaking a campaign event Oct. 19, 2024, in Atlanta.
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For the third presidential election in a row, Colorado voters rejected Republican Donald Trump, this time voting to deliver the state’s 10 electoral votes to Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, according to early statewide returns posted Tuesday night.
Preliminary, unofficial results showed Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, with 55% of the vote to 43% for Trump and his vice presidential pick, Ohio Sen. JD Vance.
Libertarian Chase Oliver had about 0.5% and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who suspended his bid and endorsed Trump in August — had just under 1%. Several other third-party and independent candidates followed.
The Associated Press called the state for Harris at 8:08 p.m.
Although Trump held one of his trademark rallies in Colorado in early October — drawing more than 10,000 supporters to a convention center on the outskirts of Aurora — the Trump campaign didn’t appear to aggressively contest the state, while the Harris campaign and the state’s Democratic Party operated a robust turnout operation.
Trump lost Colorado to Democrat Hillary Clinton by 4.5 points in 2016 and trailed President Joe Biden by 13.5 points — the widest victory margin for a Democratic nominee in the state since Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 landslide.
The last Republican presidential candidate to carry Colorado was George W. Bush in 2004.