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  • Gardner, bipartisan Senate group back bill to keep US in NATO

    Gardner, bipartisan Senate group back bill to keep US in NATO

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    Marianne Goodl

    “NATO is as bad as NAFTA,” President Donald Trump told G7 leaders in Canada in June. And you know how much Trump hates the North American Free Trade Agreement. Concerns that the president could unilaterally remove the United States from the nearly 70-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have prompted four bipartisan senators to introduce…

  • Rep. Mike Coffman wants to rein in president’s war authority

    Rep. Mike Coffman wants to rein in president’s war authority

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    JOEY BUNCH

    U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman wants to reign in the power of the president to use military force – and not necessarily just the current president, but him, too. “What I have confidence in is the people around the president,” Coffman said Thursday when Colorado Politics asked him if he had confidence in President Trump’s war-making judgment.…

  • Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet, Tim Kaine unveil bill to create ‘Medicare-X,’ a public-option health plan

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    Ernest Luning

    U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado and Tim Kaine of Virginia, both Democrats, on Tuesday introduced legislation to create a government-run health insurance plan that would eventually allow anyone to buy coverage under Medicare, the federal program that covers the elderly. “This bill creates a true public option, which I believe we should have passed…

  • Hickenlooper lands on another list of possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidates

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    Ernest Luning

    For the second week running, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has found himself on a list of potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, this one compiled by D.C.-insider publication The Hill. And although the former geologist and brewpub pioneer maintains he’s taking no steps toward a run, he recently told a national radio audience that he’s open…

  • Bennet names senior advisors, communication director to D.C., Colorado offices

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    Ernest Luning

    U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet announced the addition of several staffers to his Washington, DC., and Colorado offices on Friday, including two senior advisors who previously worked in the Obama White House and the former state executive director of the USDA Colorado Farm Service Agency. “We are fortunate to have these outstanding additions to our state, policy, and…

  • Report: Trump White House ‘scouring’ Hickenlooper’s background

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    Ernest Luning

    The White House considers Gov. John Hickenlooper a potential challenger to President Donald Trump in 2020 and has hired consultants to “scour” his background, according to a report in the New York Post. The story by Post reporter Aaron Short relies on anonymous sources “close to the administration,” and has the salacious whiff of a…

  • Candidates clash in battlegrounds as Trump path narrows

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    Steve Peoples

    Election Day just 15 days off, Donald Trump was fighting to preserve his narrow path to the presidency in must-win Florida on Monday as Hillary Clinton tries to slam the door on her Republican opponent in New Hampshire. Trump’s team concedes both publicly and privately that his electoral map is bleak. And GOP leaders are…

  • Eric Trump to campaign in Weld County Tuesday

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    Colorado Politics

    Colorado is getting even more major presidential campaign attention this week – now from the Republican side. Eric Trump, son of Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump plans to visit his father’s new campaign office in Weld County on Tuesday morning. He will make an appearance at the new Weld County Trump for Colorado office in Greeley…

  • Tim Kaine, Dave Matthews hold rally and concert in Denver

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    Colorado Politics

    Following a rough and tumble debate between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican challenger Donald Trump last night, Clinton’s running-mate Tim Kaine along with singer-songwriter Dave Matthews are campaigning together in Colorado Monday. The two plan to host a combination rally and concert at the National Western Complex at 1:30 p.m. The event is…

  • Reagan: Perfect Pence

    Reagan: Perfect Pence

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    Michael Reagan

    Now that was a debate. The Mike Pence-Tim Kaine bout Oct. 4 wasn’t the main event of 2016. It was what they call in boxing an “undercard” match. It was a contest between two natural lightweights – the VP candidates. There was no exciting 12th round knock out. But Pence and Kaine engaged in a good, spirited…

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