The House Democrats' independent expenditure arm this week reserved $1.55 million in fall TV advertising in Colorado's largest media market, likely targeting the state's tossup 8th Congressional District as the party bids to retake the majority in the chamber in November.
In less than a week, Colorado voters will have spoken.
A Republican candidate who is running the Colorado state Senate faced tax liens and owed $40,000 in child support.
A candidate for the Regional Transportation District board of directors has a criminal record spanning two states that included multiple financial charges and a charge of animal cruelty.
Backers of a move to force Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams from office over the state GOP's attacks on Pride Month gained support this week from additional county parties, even as Jefferson County's GOP censured its chair for setting the drive in motion.
When talking about campaign fundraising, one expression often heard in political circles is "spend it to the end."
Utah’s republican governor takes a swipe at Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s busing program in the days leading up to the primary election.
A national Republican group on Tuesday unleashed attack ads on Ron Hanks, the state GOP-endorsed candidate running in Colorado's crowded 3rd Congressional District primary, while accusing Democrats of "propping up" Hanks in order to produce a weaker nominee for the November election.
Colorado Democrats on Tuesday applauded President Joe Biden's executive order to shield from deportation hundreds of thousands of individuals who are living in the country illegally and are married to American citizens.
The $1 million Democrat Adam Frisch raised in contributions during the just-completed, roughly two-month pre-primary fundraising period didn't measure up to the towering totals the Colorado congressional candidate regularly posted last year, when he was running to unseat Republican Lauren Bo…
Gov. Polis endorses Sean Camacho in House District 6 primary, adding to a list of endorsements from elected leaders and organizations.
The Denver Republican Party says it's time for Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams to go.
Colorado's Libertarian Party doesn't plan to submit paperwork putting the party's presidential and vice presidential nominees on the state's general election ballot after determining the national ticket doesn't share the state party's core values, a party spokesman said.
Justin Everett, the former Jefferson County legislator who oversaw Donald Trump's presidential campaign in Colorado earlier this year, is helping organize next month's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, party and campaign officials told Colorado Politics.
A Colorado political action group focused on gun issues has withdrawn its endorsement of a state House candidate after discovering several tweets it says contradicted his responses to a candidate questionnaire.
When the chair of the Colorado Republican Party Dave Williams posted a social media post excoriating the LGBTQ+ community and June as National Pride Month, the reaction was swift.
Initiatives would increase telehealth visits for pets and create a physician's assistant position for clinics
Gov. Jared Polis has signed an executive order to bolster cybersecurity measures for the state's primary election later this month.
Colorado Republican Party faces calls for Chairman Dave Williams' removal after controversial Pride Month attacks. Letter to Williams demands special meeting.
The Democratic National Committee on Monday said it's sending a six-figure grant to the Colorado Democratic Party to boost down-ballot candidates ahead of the November election.
Colorado Republican Chairman Dave Williams is facing calls to resign amid controversy over a divisive email attacking Pride Month. Jefferson County GOP Chairwoman Nancy Pallozzi launched a petition Friday to force a vote to fire Williams.
Weston Imer, the youngest delegate from Colorado to this year's Republican National Convention, is financing his trip to Milwaukee, in part, by hawking T-shirts that celebrate former President Donald Trump's conviction on felony charges.
One of two Republican candidates in Douglas County's Senate District 2 has a lengthy criminal and civil court case history, beginning in 1988 and continuing until 2022, Colorado Politics has learned.
Michael DiManna, Republican candidate for Denver's House District 2, rejects GOP's anti-LGBTQ stance and calls on other endorsed candidates to do the same.
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It can be a crime to burn a Pride flag, depending on the circumstances, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said on Wednesday after the state Republican Party issued a call to do just that in a series of anti-LGBTQ messages.
Grand Junction Republican Jeff Hurd holds a comfortable lead in the six-way GOP primary in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District as ballots go in the mail to voters, new polling shows.
The latest campaign finance reports filed with the Secretary of State show hot fundraising for several primary races for the state House and Senate.
Among promises to finish over the next four years what he helped start during his first term in office, Teller County Commissioner Erik Stone also vowed to preserve the county's way of life when he is reelected this year.
Teller County Commissioner Dan Williams is running for reelection this year, promising to continue advocating at the state level for more local control and to use his past experience as the county planning director to help manage growth.
Republican candidates and elected officials reacted with outrage Tuesday after the Colorado GOP called to "burn all the Pride flags" in a social media post and evoked a notorious anti-gay slur in a mass email.
President Joe Biden did not tiptoe around former President Donald Trump’s felony conviction at a Monday fundraiser, his first since a New York jury handed down the verdict in Trump’s hush money case. “Folks, the campaign entered unchartered territory last week,” Biden told donors in Greenwich, Connecticut, four days after Trump was convicted on 34 […]
Colorado recently became the first state in the nation to pass a law requiring county jails and detention centers to create makeshift polling locations for those being held but have not yet been convicted to vote in person during general elections.
Donald Trump on Monday endorsed Republican Gabe Evans in Colorado's battleground 8th Congressional District, where the state lawmaker is running in a primary against a candidate endorsed by the state GOP.
Debate rules momentarily broke down at a Congressional District 5 debate Monday evening hosted by The Gazette, KOAA and the El Pomar Foundation, as the intraparty conflict between Republicans Jeff Crank and Dave Williams came to a boil onstage.
County clerks start sending primary election ballots in the mail to Colorado voters on Monday, kicking off three weeks of voting to designate Republican and Democratic nominees to the November ballot in contested congressional, legislative and local races.
If Denver’s ballot measure to ban slaughterhouses is approved by voters in November, it could cost Colorado’s economy up to $861 million and impact nearly 3,000 jobs, according to a study by Colorado State University’s Regional Economic Development Institute.
Colorado voters face two broad options that seek to tackle soaring property tax valuations — one enacted by lawmakers to cut both residential and commercial assessment rates and another via proposed initiatives to revert taxing levels back to two years ago and then place a hard cap on revenu…
Greg Lopez, the Republican nominee in Colorado's upcoming special election in the 4th Congressional District, on Friday canceled plans to participate in a debate with his Democratic and third-party opponents scheduled for the following day, citing a refusal by a GOP organization hosting the …
District Attorney Mike Allen won't pursue charges against Republican congressional candidate Dave Williams and El Paso County GOP Chairwoman Vickie Tonkins in response to a criminal complaint that alleged the two withheld data from candidates who were competing with Williams for the party's …
The district in charge of planning a passenger rail line from Pueblo to Fort Collins said on Friday that it would wait until 2026 to seek voter approval for a sales tax raise.
A last-minute amendment to an elections bill has voting rights groups seeing red and calling on Gov. Jared Polis to veto the measure.
Nancy Pallozzi, the Jefferson County Republican chair, has taken on a monumental task — restoring the beleaguered party in one of Colorado's largest counties, where the GOP once ran the show but in recent decades has been relegated by voters to the sidelines.
The Republicans running in the June primary in Colorado's 4th Congressional District threw more elbows than punches in a televised debate on Thursday night in Denver, with most of the jabs aimed at U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, though her rivals also took hits.
Colorado's Republican Party blasted the legal system on Thursday after a New York jury convicted former President Donald Trump on all 34 counts in a criminal hush money trial.
Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert starts off leading Democrat Trisha Calvarese by a sizable margin, but that lead turns into a nearly equal deficit after voters hear about Boebert's positions on abortion and other issues, according to an internal poll conducted by a Colorado firm for the C…
El Paso County commissioner candidate David Leinweber faces accusations he has violated Colorado fair campaign practices in his bid for county office.
Republican congressional candidate Ron Hanks has signed a pledge drafted by Colorado's Libertarian Party as part of a deal to prevent the state's largest minor political party from fielding potential spoiler candidates in competitive races.
The 2024 presidential election features a unique wrinkle in the form of Donald Trump‘s New York trial and three other legal cases pending against the former president. The trial, which is now in its final stages, opens up several scenarios that have never played out before. Can Trump become president if he’s convicted of a […]
An internal poll conducted last week for one of the three Democrats hoping to deny U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert another term in Congress shows potential challenger Ike McCorkle leading the Republican by double digits in Colorado's 4th Congressional District. However, a whopping one-third of the …
