The majority of the money spent in a political campaign is aimed at persuading voters to pick a certain candidate and turnout to vote. The tools of the trade are familiar: television commercials, glossy mailers, yard signs, flashy digital ads, text messages, phone calls and more. What is less visible: The entities spending the money […]
U.S. Senate race
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How to tell who’s behind political messages flooding screens in Colorado ahead of the 2020 election
The television commercials are airing during Denver Broncos games. The mailers are filling the postal box. The texts are popping up on the phone. When they arrive, a series of questions come to mind: Who’s paying for these political messages? Are they truthful? What do the folks behind them want? The 2020 election has driven […]
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A look at the major differences between Cory Gardner and John Hickenlooper in the U.S. Senate race
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner and former Gov. John Hickenlooper like to remind Coloradans of how great the state is. During their tenure in office, the state’s population grew and the economy boomed. But their visions for its future vary. The Colorado Sun researched the candidates’ platforms and asked the presidential campaigns to respond to more […]
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Hickenlooper demolishes fundraising gap with Gardner in final stretch of Colorado’s U.S. Senate race
Democrat John Hickenlooper’s three-month $22.6 million cash haul was nearly three times the $7.8 million raised by Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, who posted his best fundraising quarter ever. Hickenlooper ended the July-through-September quarter with about $7.2 million in the bank, while Gardner had $6.8 million. It was the first time the former governor held a […]
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Gardner says Roe v. Wade is “settled law” in final U.S. Senate debate, as Hickenlooper talks court packing
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said he believes the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade protecting a woman’s right to an abortion and a ruling affirming a same-sex couple’s right to marriage are settled law. “Both cases are settled law … and that precedent should be respected,” Gardner said. The Republican incumbent’s comments in the […]
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Gun-control groups see Colorado’s U.S. Senate race as a big opportunity. But it’s complicated.
Colorado’s Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner has effectively been a top target for Giffords, a national group pushing for more gun-control legislation and candidates willing to champion those measures, since its inception four years ago, said Joanna Belanger, the organization’s political director. In fact, Belanger says, Giffords has been engaged in a “years-long effort to […]
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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 […]
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Cory Gardner takes offensive, levels attacks in first U.S. Senate debate against John Hickenlooper
Republican Cory Gardner hurled attack after attack at his Democratic rival John Hickenlooper, from the opening minutes of the first debate in the U.S. Senate race to his closing statement. He noted the former governor’s two violations of the state ethics laws, his contempt citation and taxpayer-funded defense attorney, his personal wealth and rides on […]
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In Colorado, where climate change is front and center, John Hickenlooper is favored to unseat Cory Gardner
Democrat John Hickenlooper famously told a U.S. Senate committee he’d sipped fracking fluid — it was, “almost ritual-like,” he said in 2013 — to prove it’s safe. Now the one-time energy geologist is pitching himself as the more pro-climate candidate in a battle to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner. Hickenlooper’s success might seem surprising […]
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death pours intensity on, could reshape Colorado’s hotly contested Senate race
With 45 days until the 2020 election, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death promises to add more intensity to Colorado’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race and will likely force both campaigns to change strategy in the final stretch. Within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court justice’s passing Friday at age 87, Democratic calls for Republican incumbent Cory […]