SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – It’s understandable when you host a meeting featuring actor Matthew McConaughey – and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pops in as a surprise guest – that the mundane business of bipartisanship and saving democracy maybe gets lost in the shuffle.
Western Slope congressional candidate Adam Frisch grabbed some headlines Tuesday by being among the first Democrats to call for 81-year-old President Joe Biden to get out of the 2024 race, citing the president’s advanced age and inability to effectively combat former President Donald Trump’s incessant stream of lies during last week’s first presidential debate.
Northwest Colorado, the Republican parts of it anyway, remains solidly Trump country despite his felony convictions last month on 34 counts in New York. Trump’s Colorado golden boy, however — state Republican Party Chair Dave Williams — may be on a bit shakier ground.
Democratic lawmakers who hammered out and passed by overwhelmingly bipartisan margins compromise property tax bills this past legislative session are feeling dismayed and betrayed by conservative groups that got their way in negotiations but are forging ahead anyway with a pair of draconian tax-cut ballot questions Dems say would devastate the Colorado economy.
For state Sen. Dylan Roberts (D-Frisco) “protecting and securing our water future is the most important issue and biggest challenge facing our state for the next several decades.”
Now that there are officially four Republicans on the June 25 primary ballot in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District (CD3), it’s fair to ask if any of them will earn the endorsement of the Colorado Republican Party as it continues to roll back decades of pre-primary neutrality.
Outrage over the Trump-packed U.S. Supreme Court rolling back federal reproductive rights has in some ways overshadowed the now 6-3 conservative majority’s relentless assault on environmental regulations that for decades protected Colorado’s clean air and water.
Colorado House District 26 state Rep. Meghan Lukens (D-Steamboat Springs) wasted no time this month announcing the campaign of her Republican opponent – although not by name – and trying to define him as a Jan. 6 riot participant.
Tuesday likely underscored a couple of key lessons for Democrats in Colorado’s massive, mostly rural 3rd Congressional District (CD3), which stretches from Pueblo to Grand Junction, leans nine points Republican, and may be up for grabs in November.
In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 23 triumph in the New Hampshire primary, Colorado congressional candidate Russ Andrews of Carbondale, called on his GOP rivals in his race to demonstrate party unity and embrace presidential frontrunner Trump.
