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Bennet challenger Gino Campana announces statewide grassroots team
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gino Campana on Monday unveiled his campaign’s grassroots team, including more than 85 current and former elected officials and community and business leaders from across the state. The former Fort Collins City Council member is one of seven Republican candidates seeking the nomination in Colorado’s June primary for the chance to…
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Texas Rep. August Pfluger endorses Eli Bremer in Colorado’s Republican US Senate primary
U.S. Rep. August Pfluger, a Texas Republican, on Thursday endorsed Eli Bremer in Colorado’s GOP primary for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Michael Bennet. Pfluger said that his fellow Air Force Academy graduate has the national security chops needed in the Senate amid mounting crises worldwide, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We have…
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Colorado’s politicians join world leaders in condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Colorado’s public officials joined the chorus of condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and called for tough sanctions and swift punishment against the invading nation and its strongman, Vladimir Putin. Gov. Jared Polis unveiled a slew of sanctions aimed at Russia, including divesting from Russian-owned assets. He also called on the federal government to suspend…
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TRAIL MIX | After a decade in China, Bennet challenger Gregory Moore plans to speak his mind
Jefferson County Republican Gregory Moore says the seeds of running for office were planted in the summer of 2020, when he returned to the United States after roughly a decade teaching political science at universities in China, though it wasn’t until a year ago in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.…
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TRAIL MIX | Colorado’s 1974 ballot serves as a distant mirror to this year’s election
The two major parties enter Colorado’s 2022 midterm election year in starkly different positions. The Democrats hold every statewide office on the ballot this year – from governor and U.S. senator to attorney general, secretary of state and state treasurer – and every one of those incumbents is seeking reelection. Republicans, on the other hand,…
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Bennet, Hickenlooper lay out state’s windfall for transportation, airports
As is political tradition, Colorado’s U.S. senators, Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, are saluting federal money headed to their home state. Thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by Congress last month, Colorado’s roads and bridges are in line for $716 million, while airports are expected to land more than $86 million in the current…
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GOP Senate candidate Eli Bremer denounces Colorado organizer over calls to execute political opponents
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eli Bremer on Monday denounced the leader of a conservative Colorado organization who called earlier this month for the mass execution of political opponents he labeled “traitors,” including Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and Republican U.S. senators who voted for a recent spending bill. Bremer said remarks made by Joe Oltmann, the…
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WATCH: Gardner, Bennet respond to Cohen, Manafort convictions; Mueller probe
Colorado’s congressional delegation is responding to Tuesday’s news that two of President Donald Trump’s previous allies – former campaign manager Paul Manafort and former attorney Michael Cohen – were convicted of various financial crimes. U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, who traveled with Trump Tuesday to West Virginia to rally for a Republican Senate candidate, says…
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Colo.’s senators on opposite sides as confirmation battle brews over Kavanaugh
The U.S. Senate is gearing up for a major political battle over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who is poised to push the high court bench in a conservative direction for the first time in decades. Kavanaugh was nominated on July 9 and has already met privately with nearly half the Senate,…
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Colorado’s Democrats try to block U.S. census citizenship question
WASHINGTON – Colorado’s U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined a group of Senate colleagues this week in introducing a bill to block the Trump administration from asking residents about their citizenship on the upcoming U.S. census. The Trump administration wants to ask all voting-age U.S. residents about the status of their citizenship in the 2020 census.…