During a congressional hearing yesterday, Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) defended a Trump nominee who once wrote that Islam is a “deficient theology.”
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At Republican fundraising event, Gardner touts Trump’s accomplishments, according to one attendee
With scores of protesters outside the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs last week, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) told supporters inside the hotel of Trump’s “many accomplishments,” according to a Facebook post by Kelly Couey, a conservative activist who attended the event.
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Coffman praises Trump at GOP meeting
In contrast to his appearance Wednesday at a town hall meeting in Aurora, where he was reportedly “pummeled” by constituents and tried to distance himself from Trump, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) praised the president and was “very well received” a few days before at a meeting of the North Suburban Republican Forum.
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Progressive groups call on Gardner to side with Colorado, not Trump
A broad coalition of progressive organizations vowed today to maintain pressure on U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) to face constituents at a town hall meeting while Gardner is in Colorado during the current two-week Congressional recess.
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Derrick Wilburn takes Trump’s cue: Jobs numbers are “real” now
I’m gonna miss Derrick Wilburn, former Vice Chair of the Colorado GOP. He is reliably one of the nuttiest and most hyper-partisan members of the party. As a tribute to his history of Fever Swamp hysterics, I offer this case study in double standards. A few days ago, Wilburn posted this on Facebook:
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Beauprez tells radio hosts he’d “very much enjoy” Secretary of Interior job
In what appear to be his most extensive comments yet on his possible appointment as Trump’s Secretary of Interior, former Colorado Congressman Bob Beauprez told KOA 850-AM listeners this morning why he’d be a good fit for the job.