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Two GOP primary losers in Colorado fail to pay for recounts

DENVER – Colorado’s Secretary of State’s office on Wednesday said it has told two candidates who lost their Republican primary races last month that it will not conduct a recount of those ra...

DATE: Jul 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

GOP Colorado governor hopeful puts election denier on ticket

DENVER – Colorado’s Republican nominee for governor, Heidi Ganahl, on Monday selected as her running mate a Navy veteran who has claimed President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected pres...

DATE: Jul 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

State Sen. Kerry Donovan to run against Rep. Lauren Boebert

DENVER – Democratic State Sen. Kerry Donovan formally announced Thursday she will challenge Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert in the 2022 election, setting the stage for a nationally watched po...

DATE: Feb 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Gardner defends record, Trump’s morality in final debate with Hickenlooper

DENVER – Republican Sen. Cory Gardner on Tuesday defended his record, alliance with President Donald Trump and the president’s morality in the final debate of the heated Colorado Senate race...

DATE: Oct 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New political group tries to help Hickenlooper in primary

DENVER – In a sign of mounting concerns about John Hickenlooper’s standing in the Colorado Democratic Senate primary, a new political group is spending at least $1 million on a scathing att...

DATE: Jun 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Polis slams Romanoff for attack ad in Democratic primary

DENVER – Colorado’s Democratic governor took the unusual step Friday of criticizing a fellow Democrat, Andrew Romanoff, for airing a biting attack ad in the party’s Democratic Senate primary...

DATE: Jun 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

‘A hot mess’: Hickenlooper stumbles into Democratic primary

DENVER – Former Gov. John Hickenlooper was supposed to be Democrats’ worry-free solution to the Colorado Senate race, but he’s stumbled badly in the weeks leading up to the party’s June 30 p...

DATE: Jun 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Senate hopeful Hickenlooper apologizes for slave comment

DENVER – Former Colorado governor and current Senate hopeful John Hickenlooper apologized Monday for comments he made six years ago comparing politicians to slaves being whipped to row “an a...

DATE: Jun 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado Ethics Commission subpoenas Hickenlooper

DENVER – The Colorado Ethics Commission on Monday voted unanimously to subpoena former Gov. John Hickenlooper, setting up a possible court clash over whether the Democratic U.S. Senate hopef...

DATE: Jun 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Presidential hopeful Bennet pledges $6T ‘Real Deal’

DENVER – Presidential hopeful Michael Bennet is releasing a $6 trillion plan that he calls the “Real Deal” in an attempt to offer what he says is a more realistic contrast with more liberal ...

DATE: Jan 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bennet picks up presidential backing of ex-Sen. Gary Hart

DENVER –Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet picked up the endorsement Friday of onetime White House hopeful Gary Hart, a party elder statesman hoping to boost Bennet’s longshot ...

DATE: Sep 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Leading Democrat ends Senate bid now that Hickenlooper is in

DENVER – A leading candidate and the top campaign fundraiser in the crowded Democratic U.S. Senate primary in Colorado bowed out of the race Tuesday, the first casualty of former Gov. John H...

DATE: Sep 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News