2016 democratic presidential primary
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DeGette primary challenger Saira Rao running for a ‘seat at the table’
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Saira Rao says she decided to stop practicing law at a New York firm and start a publishing company devoted to children’s fiction featuring diverse characters when she was watching cartoons with her daughter Lila one day about six years ago. “I saw the utter lack of diversity, and that’s when I switched gears to…
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Colorado Democrats, Republicans trade shots over Tancredo’s participation in Hispanic GOP forum
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Seizing upon an ongoing dispute between state Republicans over whether gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo can attend a forum sponsored by the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, a spokesman for the Colorado Democratic Party gleefully tweaked the opposition Tuesday. State GOP officials, for their part, shrugged off the jab from across the aisle, with one calling it a…
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Democrat Joe Salazar endorsed by Bernie Sanders-aligned Our Revolution group for attorney general
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Our Revolution, the national progressive organization spun off from the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, is getting behind Democrat Joe Salazar and his campaign for Colorado attorney general, the Thornton lawmaker announced Wednesday. “That’s really big for this campaign,” Salazar said in a Facebook Live video unveiling the endorsement, which he added he’d learned about Tuesday…
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Democrat Levi Tillemann taps Bernie Sanders veteran to run 6th Congressional District campaign
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Colorado congressional candidate Levi Tillemann announced this week that Juan Rodriguez, a veteran of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, will manage his campaign in Colorado’s 6th District, where Tillemann is one of four Democrats running in next year’s primary for the seat held by Republican Mike Coffman. A political media and campaign consultant with nearly 30…
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As Levi Tillemann enters 6th Congressional District primary, national Republicans gleefully stoke Democratic divisions
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The National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday rolled out the red carpet to welcome Democrat Levi Tillemann into an already crowded primary race for the chance to challenge GOP incumbent U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District. Sounding positively gleeful, NRCC regional spokesman Jack Pandol used the occasion to invoke tried-and-true GOP bogeyman…
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Levi Tillemann rejects call to declare candidacy in 6th District, says he’s still considering run
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A local conservative organization is charging that Democrat Levi Tillemann is only pretending to be weighing a bid for Congress and has demanded the Aurora resident make his campaign official. But the former Obama administration official insists he’s staying “well within the boundaries” of federal election law and plans to decide soon whether or not…
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Colorado Sanders supporters have mixed reactions to Clinton endorsement
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Bernie Sanders might have thrown his support behind presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally on Tuesday, but some of the Vermont senator’s leading Colorado backers say it’ll take more than his enthusiastic embrace for Clinton to earn their endorsement. “You have to tip your hat to Sen. Sanders. He could have taken…
