2018 congressional races
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TRAIL MIX | Live, from New York, it’s real-time polling of Coffman-Crow race
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Liberal bloggers have taken to calling it “Crowmentum,” and national election forecasters appear to be acknowledging it’s happening. For the first time in the suburban 6th Congressional District’s history, a publicly released independent poll found U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman’s Democratic challenger – this time around, Jason Crow – running ahead of the five-term Republican incumbent…
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Conservation group launches six-figure ad campaign targeting Coffman
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A leading liberal environmental group is urging voters to “take the cough out of Congress” in a TV ad campaign launched Tuesday aimed at unseating U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, the Aurora Republican seeking reelection in the swing 6th Congressional District. LCV Victory Fund, the political arm of the League of Conservation Voters, plans to spend…
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Rhonda Fields endorses Levi Tillemann in 6th Congressional District Democratic primary
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DENVER – State Sen. Rhonda Fields, an Aurora Democrat, has thrown her support behind Levi Tillemann in the two-way Democratic primary in the 6th Congressional District – giving the clean energy expert and author a boost with his first endorsement from a sitting legislator. Tillemann is facing attorney and veteran Jason Crow in a primary for…
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Lakewood Republican Mark Barrington launches ‘fun’ run against U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter
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Politics can be fun again. Just ask Mark Barrington, the Lakewood Republican who launched a bid this week to unseat six-term U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, an Arvada Democrat, in Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. Barrington, a 39-year-old salesman, says he looks forward to campaigning door-to-door on a Hoverboard and plans to hold a campaign kick-off event…
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Mike Coffman donates campaign cash from GOP colleague who settled sexual harassment complaint
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A Democrat challenging U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman on Wednesday called on the Aurora Republican to unload $10,000 in campaign contributions from a fellow GOP lawmaker under fire for settling a former aide’s sexual harassment complaint with taxpayer money – but a Coffman spokesman said he’d already donated the funds earlier in the day to a local…
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Democrat Jason Crow beats Mike Coffman in quarterly fundraising, lags GOP incumbent’s cash on hand
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Democrat Jason Crow outraised Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in the most recent fundraising quarter, but the five-term incumbent outspent his challenger in Colorado’s battleground 6th Congressional District and had more cash on hand at the end of the year, according to reports the campaigns plan to file with the Federal Election Commission. In the…
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Lamborn primary challenger Bill Rhea calls on Trump to resign over vulgar immigration remarks
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Bill Rhea, one of three Republicans challenging six-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in a primary, on Tuesday called on President Donald Trump to resign in the wake of an ongoing furor ignited by Trump’s use of the term “shithole” to describe African countries during an Oval Office discussion about U.S. immigration policy. “I am…
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Shane Sandridge picked by GOP vacancy committee to fill state Rep. Dan Nordberg’s term
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A Republican vacancy committee on Thursday elected Shane Sandridge, a Colorado Springs investment consultant and former police officer, to become the next representative of state House District 14. Sandridge will replace state Rep. Dan Nordberg, R-Colorado Springs, who is stepping down in January to take a job as regional administrator of the Small Business Administration.…
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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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Democrat Ken Toltz suspends campaign in primary for Jared Polis’ 2nd Congressional District seat
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Democrat and gun control activist Ken Toltz on Monday announced he’s suspending his campaign for the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, who is running for governor. Toltz said in a release he’s putting the campaign he launched in early October on hold to focus his attention on what he called a serious…
