Month: June 2026

Col­orado Attor­ney Gen­er­al Phil Weis­er defeat­ed Sen. Michael Ben­net, D‑Colo., in Colorado’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic pri­ma­ry for gov­er­nor Tues­day, block­ing Bennet’s attempt­ed move from the Sen­ate to the gov­er­nor’s res­i­dence and putting Weis­er in posi­tion as the favorite to replace term-lim­it­ed Demo­c­ra­t­ic Gov. Jared Polis.Weiser’s win over Ben­net, a three-term sen­a­tor and for­mer 2020 pres­i­den­tial can­di­date, marked […]

Man­ny Ruti­nel, a Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­date for Con­gress in Colorado’s 8th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict, won a pri­ma­ry race on Tues­day evening, secur­ing his party’s bid to chal­lenge incum­bent Rep. Gabe Evans, R‑Colo.Rutinel, a mem­ber of the state’s House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, faces one of the country’s most com­pet­i­tive races that could help decide the bal­ance of pow­er in […]

Jes­si­ca Killin won the Demo­c­ra­t­ic pri­ma­ry in Colorado’s 5th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict on Tues­day, set­ting up a Novem­ber match-up against incum­bent Rep. Jeff Crank, R‑Colo., for the Col­orado Springs-based seat.Killin, a for­mer Army cap­tain and for­mer chief of staff to sec­ond gen­tle­man Doug Emhoff, defeat­ed fel­low Army vet­er­an and non­prof­it leader Joe Rea­gan, accord­ing to the […]

The Trump admin­is­tra­tion says it has com­plete sup­port from the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment amid human­i­tar­i­an efforts just months after the removal of for­mer dic­ta­tor Nicolás Maduro, which sparked rage among the pres­i­den­t’s opponents.After mag­ni­tude 7.2 and 7.5 earth­quakes struck the north­ern part of the South Amer­i­can nation last week, the Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment stepped in to help […]

Lau­ren Boe­bert, R‑Colo., clinched her Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry after run­ning unop­posed to rep­re­sent Col­orado’s 4th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict on Tues­day evening, set­ting her­self up to pur­sue a fourth term.Despite notable clash­es with House GOP lead­er­ship and Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, Boe­bert emerged from her pri­ma­ry large­ly unscathed, sep­a­rat­ing her­self from the three oth­er Repub­li­cans who vot­ed with Democ­rats […]

Rep. Jeff Hurd, R‑Colo., clinched the GOP nom­i­na­tion against a right-wing chal­lenger Tues­day, as the fresh­man law­mak­er seeks to hold a com­pet­i­tive House dis­trict Democ­rats are seek­ing to flip in November’s midterm elec­tions. Hurd defeat­ed for­mer state Rep. Ron Han­ks, R‑Colo., in the Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry for a sprawl­ing House dis­trict cov­er­ing near­ly all of west­ern and […]

A mod­er­ate Demo­c­rat mount­ing his last cam­paign staved off a pro­gres­sive chal­lenger in Col­orado, mark­ing a small speed bump in the rapid far-left evo­lu­tion of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty. Sen. John Hick­en­loop­er, D‑Colo., a long­time fix­ture in Col­orado pol­i­tics, over­came a chal­lenge from state Sen. Julie Gon­za­les, his pro­gres­sive chal­lenger, who has argued that Democ­rats need to […]