Colorado Politics

 Democrat, Republican enter Colorado state House race

A Democrat and a Republican have officially entered the race for House District 32, which includes parts of Westminster and Commerce City. The seat is currently held by Democratic Rep. Manny Rutinel, who is running for Congress. The eventual winner...

 ‘I want my Colorado back’: Teller County sheriff to run for Colorado governor

Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell is joining the 2026 Colorado gubernatorial race with plans to tackle several issues. His focuses will be on the budget shortfall, housing affordability issues, immigration policies and crime trends if elected all while emphasizing the...

 Colorado Springs tests machine to count, verify City Council election results

The ballots are mailed out and the machines are calibrated to count votes in Colorado Springs’ April 1 municipal election. The City Clerk’s office and elections staff ran the logic and accuracy test for the ballot counting machine early Monday...

 Top Trump ally Steve Bannon set to headline Colorado GOP’s annual fundraising dinner

Former senior Trump advisor Steve Bannon is slated to headline the Colorado Republican Party’s annual fundraising dinner in March, five months after the popular podcaster’s release from federal prison, the state GOP announced Thursday. An architect of Donald Trump’s 2016...

 Colorado GOP sues Republicans who tried to oust Dave Williams from state chair position

The Colorado Republican Party sued six prominent state Republicans this week alleging the group orchestrated a failed “coup” that attempted to remove state GOP Chairman Dave Williams and his fellow state party officers from their positions last summer, costing the...

 Colorado GOP adjourns online meeting without considering controversial bylaws amendments

It took just over an hour and a half for the Colorado Republican Party’s state central committee to decide it wasn’t going to conduct any business on Thursday night. About 90 minutes into an online meeting of the committee, state...

 Democratic state lawmaker Manny Rutinel launches bid to challenge Gabe Evans in Colorado’s 8th CD

State Rep. Manny Rutinel on Monday announced his candidate for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans in Colorado’s swingy 8th Congressional District, a nearly evenly divided seat decided by some of the narrowest margins in the...

 FEC dismisses complaint over Colorado GOP’s support for state chair Dave Williams’ 5th CD campaign

The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint filed last year against the Colorado Republican Party and its chairman, Dave Williams, that alleged the state GOP violated campaign finance law when it spent party funds to support Williams’ congressional campaign....

 Jamie Jackson wins Colorado House District 41 seat after vacancy election

A vacancy committee of Arapahoe County Democrats elected Jamie Jackson to serve as the state representative for House District 41, replacing Sen. Iman Jodeh, who left the position to serve in the Senate.  Jackson, the COO of the nonprofit organization...

 Arapahoe County Democrats set to hold vacancy election to replace Sen. Iman Jodeh in House District 41

The Arapahoe County Democrats will be holding a vacancy election Wednesday evening to replace Sen. Iman Jodeh, D-Aurora, who moved from the House to the Senate following former Sen. Janet Buckner’s departure.  Three candidates are running to represent the district,...

 Colorado GOP chair candidate Brita Horn announces endorsements from dozens of leading Republicans

More than two dozen Republican politicians, party officials and activists are supporting Brita Horn’s bid to chair the state GOP, the former Routt County treasurer announced Thursday. Among those backing Horn are former University of Colorado Regent and past gubernatorial...

 Top Colorado GOP staffer Darcy Schoening announces bid for state Republican Party chair

Darcy Schoening, the Colorado Republican Party’s director of special initiatives, on Monday declared that she’s running for state GOP chair in the party’s upcoming reorganization election. The state Republicans’ incumbent chair, former state Rep. Dave Williams, hasn’t announced whether he...

 Colorado Gov. Jared Polis urges lawmakers to pay fallen officer’s widow $1 million as mandated by voter-approved measure

Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday urged lawmakers to honor the will of the voters, notably by immediately implementing a measure approved last November that directs the state to provide benefits to the families of officers killed in the line of...

 Some Colorado House Republicans refuse to certify election results due to voting system breach

Six Republican members of the Colorado House of Representatives voted against certifying the 2024 election results, arguing that an error made by the Secretary of State’s office in which a spreadsheet containing passwords for the state’s voting machines were posted...

 Phil Weiser’s campaign for Colorado governor raises $155,000

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said his gubernatorial campaign raised more than $155,000 a day after launching his campaign. Weiser announced his candidacy for governor on Thursday. It’s customary for candidates to unveil their fundraising numbers shortly after announcing their...

 Top political stories in Colorado add up to a topsy-turvy 2024 | YEAR IN REVIEW

In a year marked by reversals, switches and unprecedented twists, Colorado’s political players barreled through month after month of historic firsts in 2024. While he lost Colorado by double digits, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies loomed over...

 Denver district attorney won’t pursue criminal charges over election password breach

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann has decided against pursuing criminal charges over the breach in election equipment passwords by the Secretary of State’s Office. McCann said her decision was the result of a seven-week investigation into whether the office of...

 10 Colorado electors officially cast state’s vote for Harris in presidential election

Colorado has officially cast its 10 electoral votes for Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election.  The 10 electors, elected by the Colorado Democratic Party to represent each member of Colorado’s congressional delegation, all voted for Harris and her vice...

 Colorado voters undecided over choices for governor among Democrats, poll says

A majority of voters are undecided about their next choice for Colorado governor among a few potential Democratic aspirants. The poll only offered potential Democratic candidates.   The nonprofit Healthier Colorado released its findings of its first poll on the 2026...

 Maya Wheeler announces run for Colorado District 29 seat to be vacated by Sen. Janet Buckner

Maya Wheeler, a community activist and business owner from Aurora, has announced she will be running for the vacant Senate seat in District 29. The seat is currently held by Democratic Sen. Janet Buckner, who recently announced she would be...

 ‘We cannot be romantic’: Shad Murib launches bid for second term as Colorado Democratic state chair

Colorado Democratic chair Shad Murib on Wednesday launched a bid for a second, two-year term running the state party in next year’s biennial reorganization meeting. Murib told Colorado Politics that while he’s encouraged by the party’s performance in the November...

 Colorado legal experts weigh in on ‘truth in sentencing’ measure

Colorado voters earlier this month approved a ballot measure that increases the amount of time an individual convicted of certain violent crimes must serve before being eligible for parole and removes parole eligibility for those with two previous violent crime convictions....

 Former Jeffco Clerk and Recorder George Stern mulling run for Colorado secretary of state

Former Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder George Stern is considering a run for Colorado secretary of state in two years, the Democrat told Colorado Politics. Stern, 37, said his experience turning around one of the largest county clerk’s offices in...

 Audit of Denver election results set for Tuesday

Denver’s election officials will conduct an audit of election results, which they said would help ensure the integrity of ballots cast in the Nov. 5 general election. This post-election audit, slated for Nov. 19 at the central office of the...

 Meet the new (and not so new) faces of the 2025 legislative session

The upcoming legislative session will see a mix of new and familiar faces, including a number of House members who will be moving to the Senate. With nearly two dozen brand-new legislators set to begin their terms in January, here’s...

 Razor-thin race for Colorado House District 16 qualifies for a recount

An especially tight race for Colorado House District 16, which came down to a mere seven-vote difference on Thursday, has qualified for an automatic recount, El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Steve Schleiker announced. Final unofficial election results updated by...

 Advance Colorado’s Michael Fields is ‘very encouraged’ by election results

With three citizen initiatives on the ballot this election and two more that were withdrawn following a special legislative session over the summer, Advance Colorado has had a busy year. The organization, which describes itself as “focused on reversing radical...

 Briefly | Youth voter turnout in Colorado nearly double national average

Gov. Jared Polis congratulates new Democratic House leaders Gov. Jared Polis released a statement congratulating the newly-elected Democratic House leadership, on Monday. “Congratulations to Speaker of the House Julie McCluskie, Majority Leader Monica Duran, Assistant Majority Leader Jennifer Bacon, Co-Whips Iman...

 Voters ‘overwhelmingly’ satisfied with Colorado’s voting system, exit polling finds

Colorado voters from across the political spectrum are happy with the state’s voting system and give local officials high marks for the way they administer elections, according to statewide exit polling released Thursday by a bipartisan public opinion research consortium....

 Gabe Evans pulls ahead of incumbent Yadira Caraveo in Colorado’s 8th CD as ballot count continues

Republican challenger Gabe Evans took a slim lead over Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo late Friday in Colorado’s battleground 8th Congressional District as county clerks continued to post returns days after Tuesday’s election. Evans jumped ahead by 2,529 votes when...