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Republican Deborah Flora hires Axiom Strategies, team for 2022 US Senate campaign
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Republican Deborah Flora announced key additions to her 2022 U.S. Senate campaign in Colorado on Wednesday, including strategists fresh off wins in last month’s off-year elections and consultants at national firms with winning records in Senate races. Flora is one of eight Republicans vying for the nomination to challenge Democrat Michael Bennet, who is seeking…
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Noonan: Bipartisan bill takes on age of consent for mental health care for children
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Parents generally make medical decisions for their children. A bipartisan House bill addresses at what age children can make mental health care decisions for themselves, lowering the age of consent for a child to receive outpatient therapy from 15 years to 10 years. Bill sponsors cite a 50 percent rise in the occurrence of suicide…
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Trump marks his first month with tweets, turmoil
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One month after the inauguration, the stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of Donald Trump’s White House still is a hard-hat zone. Skeletal remains of the inaugural reviewing stands poke skyward. Random piles of plywood and cables are heaped on the ground inside crooked lines of metal fencing. The disarray outside the president’s front door,…
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Webb: Looking back on Election 2016
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As we begin to digest the 2016 election results, let me begin with our successes. First, I want to congratulate Denver voters on our 80 percent turnout, which is outstanding. I also want to congratulate Emmy Ruiz for running a great campaign in Colorado for Hillary Clinton. She helped make Colorado blue and bring Hillary…
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Trump transition continues, may revisit Trump Country during victory tour
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Donald Trump may take a victory tour to states that elected him president, an aide said Saturday, as boisterous protests unfolded outside the tower where he holed up with members of his transition team and fielded calls congratulating him. While he’s announced one decision – putting Vice President-elect Mike Pence in charge of the transition…
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Jensen: The not-so-conservative Chris Christie
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To say New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is skipping … um … trudging … out of office, loading up Jersey drivers with a 250 percent increase in the gas tax, is certainly accurate. To say he’s waddling out of office, giving tax breaks to veterans, the poor, the middle class and the wealthy would also…
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Durst: Assembling Trump’s Dream Team
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Any politician angling to be president has to appear believable while wearing many hats. The electorate needs to imagine him/her in a pith helmet to lead us through the jungle. A hard hat to connect to blue collar voters. A top hat to conduct formal diplomatic negotiations. A deerstalker to sift through the intrigue. And…
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Trump stand-ins struggle to speak for and defend nominee
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Donald Trump isn’t making it easy for top supporters and advisers, from his running mate on down, to defend him or explain some campaign positions. Across the Sunday news shows, a parade of Trump stand-ins, led by vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, couldn’t say whether Trump was sticking with or changing a central promise to boot the roughly 11 million people…
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Clinton receives first intelligence briefing as nominee
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Hillary Clinton received her first national security briefing Saturday as the Democratic presidential nominee, meeting with intelligence officials for an overview of the major threats facing the nation around the globe. Clinton attended the briefing for more than two hours at the FBI office in White Plains, New York, near her suburban New York City…
