2018 primary races
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TRAIL MIX | Positive polls like Jason Crow’s are often shrouded in mystery
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Jason Crow’s campaign is touting the results of a poll showing the Democrat with a slim lead over five-term Republican Mike Coffman in Colorado’s battleground 6th Congressional District. The survey, commissioned by the Crow campaign, found the first-time candidate had the support of 47 percent of the district’s likely general election voters, edging out Coffman’s…
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Stapleton taps running mate — but plans to keep selection secret for awhile
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Walker Stapleton has a running mate, but the Republican gubernatorial nominee is in no hurry to let anyone know who it is. After winning the four-way GOP primary a week ago, the two-term state treasurer has “offered the position to a well-qualified candidate,” a Stapleton campaign spokesman told Colorado Politics on Tuesday, and the candidate…
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Democrat Jena Griswold spends $260,000 on fall TV ads in secretary of state race
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While other candidates were sweating out the results in last week’s primary, Democratic secretary of state candidate Jena Griswold spent big on TV advertising for the general election, her campaign said Monday. Griswold’s campaign paid $260,000 on June 26 to reserve air time in October in an attempt to lock in desirable spots at the…
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Democrats pledge unity, rally around gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis
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DENVER – Leading Colorado Democrats on Friday called for a unified front ahead of the fall election at a Capitol rally for freshly minted gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis, though the absence of the three candidates defeated by the Boulder congressman in Tuesday’s primary drew jeers from state Republicans. Speakers hailed Polis’ drive and inclusive approach…
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TRAIL MIX: Tom Tancredo, Bernie Sanders will flavor Colorado’s fall campaign
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Elsewhere at ColoradoPolitics.com, we take a look at the just-completed June primary and consider the winners and losers left in its wake. Two towering and political figures, Tom Tancredo and Bernie Sanders, don’t fit neatly into either category – they appear to have won some and lost some – but have done as much as…
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Trailing by slim margin, Joe Salazar says AG race isn’t over
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State Rep. Joe Salazar isn’t giving up yet. The Thornton Democrat said Thursday he wants election officials to finish tabulating thousands of uncounted ballots statewide before deciding who won the primary for Colorado state attorney general, even though Salazar has trailed rival Phil Weiser by thousands of votes since soon after polls closed Tuesday night.…
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Colo. Republicans hit the road on a unity tour
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They quarreled like politicians on the campaign trail before Tuesday’s primary. On Thursday, Republican candidates for governor applauded nominee Walker Stapleton in a series of small rallies up the Front Range. To try to gum up the GOP unity, the state Democratic Party emailed reporters a list of quotes his GOP primary rivals said about…
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PRIMARY 2018: DeGette, Crow, Neguse win congressional primaries
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With decisive votes, Coloradans set the table in the June primary that ended Tuesday for seven fall congressional elections, settling most key races not long after voting ended by wide margins. Less than an hour after the 7 p.m. voting deadline, three of the state’s most interesting congressional races were already decided, and a fourth…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Colorado candidates notch support as primary looms
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Politicians and organizations are bestowing last-minute endorsements as candidate scramble to motivate voters in the days before the June 26 primary. Here are some of the Colorado candidate endorsements announced in recent days, including some going to candidates who aren’t in contested primaries and have already won their party’s nomination: ? Former U.S. Sen. Tim…
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Poll: Colorado’s unaffiliated voters favor Democrats, strongly dislike Trump
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Unaffiliated voters in Colorado plan to vote in the Democratic primary in sharply higher numbers than in the Republican primary, a poll released Tuesday shows. What’s more, the unaffiliated voters who say they plan to vote in the November election hold significantly more favorable views of the leading Democratic candidates for governor than the leading Republicans.…
