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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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INSIGHTS | Ganahl pins fentanyl surge on Polis’ policies
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Heidi Ganahl is an untested candidate in a crowded governor’s race, but where she’s starting provides a strong indication of where Republicans are headed in 2022. Gov. Jared Polis is expected to run on his record of lowering the cost of health care, cracking down on air pollution, promoting greener transportation and making free full-day…
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Colorado Republican Barbara Kirkmeyer announces campaign team for 8th CD run
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Republican congressional candidate Barbara Kirkmeyer, a state lawmaker and former Weld County commissioner, this week announced key members of her campaign team in her bid to represent Colorado’s new 8th Congressional District. Kirkmeyer is one of five Republicans seeking the nomination in the battleground district, which stretches from Adams County suburbs north of Denver to…
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TRAIL MIX | Stapleton, Coffman don’t expect Trump’s help before election
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President Donald Trump is planning an aggressive campaign schedule ahead of the November midterm election to help elect Republicans, but top Colorado candidates – including one who warmly embraced the president on his way to a primary win – say they don’t expect Trump to stump here for them. Trump intends to log more than…
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Speaker Ryan chides Coffman, other breakaway Republicans on DACA tactic
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WASHINGTON – Speaker Paul Ryan mocked an effort by breakaway Republicans – a group that includes U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado – to force election-year votes on rival immigration proposals as a drive that would produce “show ponies,” not legislation the president would sign into law. Ryan, R-Wisconsin, said Thursday that since he’s been…
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Seeking DACA debate, Rep. Coffman backs ‘queen of the hill’ maneuver
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Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman will sign a “discharge petition” to force four immigration bills to the floor of the House for a vote via a parliamentary maneuver known as “queen of the hill,” his office announced Wednesday. “These immigration bills deserve a vote, and Republican leadership has been wrong in holding them up,” Coffman said…
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Much Trump talk at Colorado’s whittling of governor hopefuls
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BROOMFIELD – A former mayor delivered a rousing speech praising President Donald Trump and helped hand a stunning defeat to Colorado’s moderate attorney general in the race to enter the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary Saturday, while Democrats selected two candidates who pledged to push back against the White House. In the Denver suburb of Broomfield,…
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Colo. state party assemblies: Battle for the ballot — Complete CoPo coverage
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Colorado Republicans and Democrats are gathering Saturday to choose candidates for statewide office to appear on the primary ballot in June – and last-minute drama involving key candidates has made the gatherings even more tense than usual. Colorado Politics reporters have been covering the lead-up to the party gatherings, and Ernest Luning and Marianne Goodland…
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AG Coffman backs citizenship question in census
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Colorado state Attorney General Cynthia – Coffman in the thick of a race for governor – has announced her support for a controversial proposal to ask about U.S. citizenship in the 2020 census. Controversial, because some fear that a citizenship question on the government’s once-every-decade national survey could discourage some immigrants from taking part in the…
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Trump fires VA Secretary Shulkin over controversies
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin on Wednesday in the wake of a bruising ethics scandal and a mounting rebellion within the agency. U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman whose 6th Congressional District includes the VA’s troubled Aurora hospital project, has repeatedly called for Shulkin to resign or be fired. Shulkin is…
