Top Democrats campaigning in Colorado signal they’re nervous about losing

Recent visits from high-level Biden surrogates to Colorado indicates that Democrats are nervous about their election chances here, the Colorado Sun reports.

There were more surrogates of President Joe Biden in Colorado last week. First Lady Jill Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra made a stop in the Centennial State on Friday and Saturday.

 

As we’ve written before, the administration’s decision to send its top people to Colorado is an indication that Democrats are nervous about their chances in the state this November.

The First Lady and Becerra, among other Biden officials, have been criss-crossing the country in recent weeks as Democrats gear-up for what appears to be an absolutely dreadful outcome for them.

Both were in Arizona, another top-tier midterm election state, just three weeks ago.

While Biden won Colorado by over 13 points in 2020, Democrats have every reason to be nervous about their chances in 2022.

Two separate polls in recent months showed U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet roughly tied with a generic Republican challenger, while state General Assembly Democrats trailed by one point against generic GOP candidates.

Republicans think they can flip state legislative chambers in Colorado and Minnesota and gain seats in liberal strongholds in November, saying on Thursday that the current political environment is putting chambers in play that were out of reach at the beginning of the cycle.

 

The Republican State Leadership Committee announced its targets for 2022 elections in a Thursday memo pointing to their polling that shows President Joe Biden is “dragging down Democrats in key states across the country.” 

Recent national polling backs up the trends that operatives are seeing in Colorado, particularly with respect to the economy and cost of living.

Biden‘s approval rating sunk to a new low according to an NBC News poll released Sunday, with inflation fears and concerns about his leadership in Ukraine appearing to be the driving factors.

Also of concern to many voters is the troubling rise in violent crime.

A recent report from the Common Sense Policy Institute showed Colorado crime cost the state $31 billion in 2021, which totals over $5,000 per Coloradan.

As we reported earlier this month, even the left’s own polling shows them trailing when it comes to which party voters trust to address crime in Colorado.

…Democrats trail on the issue of handling public safety irrespective of the message presented to the poll’s respondents.

 

Given the lack of a likely voter screen, it’s reasonable to presume the trust gap when it comes to crime is even worse for Democrats than this poll suggests.

The political environment has never been more ripe for a GOP wave to crash in November.

If Republicans can manage to nominate the right candidates, 2022 could be an absolutely massive year for a party that the mainstream media wrote off for dead in Colorado just two years ago.