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TRAIL MIX | Candidate switcheroos are nothing new in Colorado
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Wouldn’t you know it, less than a week after last week’s Trail Mix column went to press, it was obsolete. In the holiday news lull, it had seemed like a good opportunity to take stock of the candidate line-ups in major Colorado races. While savvy political watchers have been expecting at least a few additional contenders…
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Casper Stockham takes on long odds (again) in Denver’s 1st Congressional District
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Republican Casper Stockham is facing the challenge of unseating 11-term Democratic incumbent Diana DeGette as Denver’s representative in Congress. And he knows what he’s getting into. He wasn’t convinced of DeGette’s invincibility in the 1st Congressional District when she got nearly 68 percent against him in the general election two years ago, and nearly 71…
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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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Denver GOP congressional candidate welcomes Dems on citizenship issue
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Republican congressional candidate Casper Stockham thinks Democrats are coming around to his way of thinking. The 1st Congressional District candidate said he when he ran the first time against Democratic incumbent Diana DeGette 2016, eventually getting 28 percent of the vote, he proposed a Planting Seeds of Purpose platform that would restore citizenship for criminals…
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Is America a melting pot — or a buffet?
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Is today’s America a great melting pot of individuals pursuing their personal dreams (good) or a buffet of tribalistic interests and ideas intent on tearing down and dividing our nation (evil)? At this point, it is both. We are at a tipping point to decide the future of America. We cannot be a melting pot…
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Democrat Diana DeGette faces primary challenge from Saira Rao
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U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat serving her 11th term, will share the June primary ballot with challenger Saira Rao but on Friday easily won top line at the 1st Congressional District assembly. DeGette received 270 votes, or 62.6 percent, to Rao’s 161 votes, or 37.4 percent at the meeting. Because Rao had already…
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DeGette primary challenger Rao tops $250,000 in 1st-quarter fundraising
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DENVER – Saira Rao, the Denver Democrat mounting a primary challenge against 11-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, will report raising just over $250,000 for the quarter that ended Saturday, her first in the race, Colorado Politics has learned. Rao’s campaign said she received contributions from more than 950 individual donors since launching her campaign in…
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Lamborn, DeGette challenger Rao qualify for primary ballot by petition
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Congressional candidates Doug Lamborn and Saira Rao will be on Colorado’s June primary ballot, the office of Secretary of State Wayne Willams said Thursday after ruling they submitted enough valid signatures on nominating petitions. Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican seeking his seventh term representing the 5th Congressional District, says he’ll pass on asking delegates for…
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Saira Rao becomes first Democratic congressional candidate in Colorado to submit petitions
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Democrat Saira Rao on Monday submitted petitions to the secretary of state’s office to secure a spot on the 1st Congressional District primary ballot – becoming the second congressional candidate in Colorado to turn in signatures. “This campaign is about giving everyone a seat at the table and making Colorado a progressive leader in national…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election (March 4)
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STRIKE UP THE BAND … It is, after all, March Fourth. The celebration started a few days early in Colorado, when John Philip Sousa IV, the grandson of the composer and marching band icon, was on hand to endorse a pair of longshot Republican candidates – Greg Lopez, the former Parker mayor running for governor,…
