CO-GOV, CO-01, CO-08: The Democratic Insurgency Is Sweeping Through Colorado
DENVER — The insurgency rocking the Democratic Party is set to reach mile-high heights on Tuesday, with a trio of primaries in Colorado giving voters a chance to express their anger with the party’s establishment.
The Colorado races are distinct: an ideological battle for a safe blue House seat in Denver, a governor’s race where a longtime senator is in an unexpectedly tight race and a fight for the chance to knock off a vulnerable Republican in the suburbs north of the city. In all three, however, momentum seems to be on the side of the candidate most willing to buck the party’s old ways in a state where moderate Democrats have long reigned.
“Voters are tuning against anybody associated with the establishment,” said Rick Ridder, a longtime Democratic pollster in the state, pointing to this week’s progressive victories on the other side of the country. “We saw it in New York. The same attitudes exist among Democratic primary voters everywhere.”
The most shocking outcome may be the possible failure of Sen. Michael Bennet’s campaign for governor. Bennet ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and was a leading supporter of the expanded child tax credit, which in 2021 paid parents across the country a monthly allowance of as much as $350 per child. The benefit slashed child poverty and represented a high-water mark for progressive policy, but Bennet and likeminded Democrats failed to make it permanent.
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