6th congressional district
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Rep-elect Jason Crow names Iraqi immigrant as district director
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Jason Crow, the first Democrat to represent Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, on Friday announced that he’s hired Maytham Alshadood, an Iraqi immigrant who served as a military translator and combat interpreter, to be his district director. Crow, an attorney and Army Ranger veteran who unseated five-term Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in November, said his…
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Coffman, Crow spar over immigration, Trump in 6th CD debate
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Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and Democratic challenger Jason Crow on Tuesday night accused each other of dishonesty and failing to stand up to their party’s leaders during the final televised debate in what could be the hardest-fought – and most expensive – congressional race in the country. The candidates clashed over immigration policy, health…
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Major Republican funding group cuts off support for Mike Coffman
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The campaign arm of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives is dropping its financial support for U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, the GOP incumbent who has represented Colorado’s battleground 6th Congressional District for five terms, Colorado Politics has confirmed. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is canceling $1 million in TV advertising and redirecting the…
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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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Poll puts Democrat Jason Crow 11 points ahead in Colo.’s most competitive House seat
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Anna Staver, The Denver Post, via AP Colorado Democrats are starting to believe this could be the year they finally flip Colorado’s most competitive congressional seat. A New York Times poll of the 6th Congressional District released Friday put Democratic challenger Jason Crow 11 points ahead of U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora. Crow’s 51-40 lead…
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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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TRAIL MIX | Candidates clash over gun control in swing 6th Congressional District
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Colorado’s 6th Congressional District looks like a lot of the districts across the country where the battle for control of the U.S. House is being fought – often suburban, represented by Republicans but won two years ago by Democrat Hillary Clinton – but it has a history that most other swing districts lack. Two of…
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HUD Secretary Ben Carson plans visit to Aurora affordable housing complex
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U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson is scheduled to tour an affordable housing site in Aurora Monday afternoon with U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and the city’s new mayor, Bob LeGare. The officials plan to visit the $53 million Village at Westerly Creek complex on East Kentucky Avenue and talk about Aurora’s Opportunity…
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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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Crow sets 6th CD record, tops $1 million in quarterly fundraising
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Democrat Jason Crow plans to report raising more than $1 million for the just-completed second fundraising quarter of the year, more than any candidate in the battleground 6th Congressional District has raised for the same period in previous elections, including five-term Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman. Crow, who isn’t taking contributions from corporate political…
