Holding Trump accountable is right and necessary, but indictments over hush money are not the accountability Americans need most.
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Littwin: Don’t get too excited yet. All the, uh, indications suggest more Trump indictments to come.
How will this first indictment and others affect Trump’s run for the GOP nomination? One guess: Maybe not as much as you’d think.
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Littwin: Joe Biden had a secret weapon at the State of the Union, but it wasn’t what you’d think
Mike Littwin writes that Joe Biden’s poll numbers aren’t that strong even among Democrats, but the president knows who he’s running against. And in his State of the Union address, he played them.
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Littwin: McCarthy’s backroom deals move frenemies Boebert and Greene to the front row
Columnist Mike Littwin notes that it’s almost funny, but Lauren Boebert, who opposed Kevin McCarthy for speaker, and Majorie Taylor Greene, who supported him, got pretty much the same backroom deal.
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Littwin: As Trump prepares to run again in 2024, is the GOP prepared to doom itself again?
Columnist Mike Littwin writes that Republicans have had plenty of chances to dump Trump. The question is whether they can summon the courage to do it this time.
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Movshovitz: “The Day the Earth Stood Still” still speaks to us, if we’re willing to listen
“Gort, KLAATU BARRATA NICTO” A loose translation of this famous line spoken near the end of the brilliant 1951 movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (forget the splashy, nowhere 2008 version with Keanu Reeves) would go something like “Gort, Klaatu says don’t incinerate the Earth — yet.” To go backwards in the story, Gort […]
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Nicolais: Anti-transgender activists should take a lesson from Colorado
Just over a week ago, to comparatively little fanfare, Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a bill that will make discrimination against anyone based on gender identity expression unlawful. In particular, the bill will protect the rights of transgender Coloradans in the same manner as the law currently protects people based on race, sex or […]
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How Democratic control in Washington will influence Democratic control in Colorado — and vice versa
When Democrats regained control of the Colorado legislature in 2019, they started taking action in response to President Donald Trump and a deadlocked Congress. That included passing legislation around environmental, immigration and criminal justice issues. Recently, state lawmakers have also taken on coronavirus economic relief and are gearing up to debate the creation of a […]
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Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems employee files defamation suit against Trump campaign, Rudy Giuliani
Eric Coomer, a top employee at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, filed a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, the president’s personal attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and the conservative media outlet Newsmax, among others. The legal action alleges Coomer, who lives in Colorado and serves as Dominion’s director of […]
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Seven big takeaways from Cory Gardner and John Hickenlooper’s third — and most fiery — debate
Republican incumbent Cory Gardner and Democrat John Hickenlooper faced off in the third of four U.S. Senate debates on Friday, hours after Colorado elections officials began mailing ballots to voters across the state. The 90-minute faceoff, hosted by Denver7, The Denver Post and Colorado Public Radio, covered many expected topics: health care, immigration, Hickenlooper’s ethics […]