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El Paso County GOP mulls punishing Republicans deemed insufficiently Republican
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El Paso County Republicans plan to decide whether the local party can censure its members for violating its platforms or getting crosswise with GOP leaders. The county GOP’s central committee – made up of precinct leaders, party officers and elected officials – is scheduled to weigh a proposed bylaws amendment to establish a formal censure procedure…
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Gardner named Republican deputy whip in Senate
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So, does he get to carry an actual whip? That’s unclear, but in any event, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner on Tuesday was named one of several Republican deputy whips in the Senate. The selections were made by Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., the Washington Examiner reports. Gardner has been a deputy whip since he joined…
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Trump answers Romney criticism: ‘I won big, and he didn’t’
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WASHINGTON – Faced with biting public criticism from Republican Sen.-elect Mitt Romney, President Donald Trump pushed back Wednesday, reminding him that “I won big, and he didn’t.” Days away from joining the Senate’s Republican majority, Romney broadly criticized Trump’s policies and character in a newspaper column, arguing that the president “has not risen to the…
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Not president, not yet a senator: Romney is starting over
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WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney is a man in-between. He made it to Washington after all – but not as president of the United States, the office he sought twice and other men won. He’s not yet a senator from Utah, either, until he’s sworn in Jan. 3. Romney, lifelong executive in public and private life,…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Romney looks ahead after winning Senate nomination
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Utah Romney looks to November after landslide Utah primary win SALT LAKE CITY – Mitt Romney looks like a shoo-in for a U.S. Senate seat from Utah after winning a landslide primary victory and toning down his criticism of Donald Trump, but first he’ll face a Democratic opponent with a distinctly different political outlook. Jenny…
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PRIMARY 2018: Polis, Stapleton to face off in November for Colo. governor
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Republican Walker Stapleton and Democrat Jared Polis, two sitting office-holders with high name recognition and lots of campaign cash, dominated their opponents and claimed victories in their parties’ primary races for governor less than an hour after the polls closed Tuesday. In all-but-final tallies June 28, Stapleton had received 47.7 percent of the Republican vote…
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Poll: Stapleton tops Republican field for Colo. governor
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Walker Stapleton is leading Colorado’s four-way Republican primary for governor, but businessman Victor Mitchell’s late ad blitz could position him to close the gap in the final weeks of the campaign, according to a poll released Monday by GOP firm Magellan Strategies and made available early to Colorado Politics. The survey of nearly 600 likely…
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BIDLACK | Does honesty matter anymore in a president?
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Readers of a certain age will recall that in 1976, then California Governor Ronald Reagan did what many in politics thought was both foolish and disloyal – he ran a campaign for president against the sitting Republican, Gerald Ford. It was a bitter battle, with acrimony and insults all around. Many political thinkers believe that…
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Colo. governor’s race: Who has raised and spent the most so far?
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As Colorado’s Republican and Democratic primaries for governor hit the final stretch, campaign finance reports filed Monday detail a big-ticket race that continues to set records, with two self-funding candidates accounting for roughly $9 million of the nearly $15 million spent so far. The latest totals confirm predictions that the race to succeed term-limited Democrat…
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Doug Robinson is on the ballot in GOP gubernatorial primary
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A Denver District Court declared Wednesday afternoon that businessman Doug Robinson has qualified for the Republican gubernatorial primary ballot just five days after state officials ruled he didn’t submit enough signatures on his nominating petitions. Judge Ross Buchanan accepted an agreement reached between Robinson and Secretary of State Wayne Williams allowing Williams to count 40…
