John Hickenlooper made an unusual campaign promise to win another six-year U.S. Senate term.
Vote for him just one more time and he’ll never run for office again.
He would be 80 years old by the time he stepped down, having spent 30 years as a full-time politician.
It’s the kind of political pledge only a Democrat would even consider making, and Democrat voters would embrace.
Term limits were never their thing.
Hickenlooper made his political bones as mayor of Denver when he was first elected to office in 2003.
After failing on his promise to end homelessness, Democrats elected him to a couple terms as governor.
He had driven Colorado halfway to Hell by then, so Hickenlooper tried to flee the state by running for president — along with dozens of other Dems — instead of a third term as governor.
He dropped out just a few months later and instead ran for Senate, where he spends most days in Washington, D.C.
Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper: “Two terms is plenty.”@Hickenlooper is running for a second term in 2026, but says he won’t seek reelection after that. @DenverChannel #copolitics pic.twitter.com/6wGlQYwOjm
— Brandon Richard (@BrandonLRichard) August 22, 2024
Hickenlooper thinks his was an unusual road to the U.S. Senate, having served as a mayor and governor working his way up the political ladder.
A quick Google search showed that’s not uncommon.
PeakNation™ might wonder why a 74-year-old man would run for office yet again, instead of retiring to spend more time with his now two-year-old child.
It’s because he needs that second term to cash in on Congress’s lucrative pension scheme that will ensure he can pass on that generational wealth to his children.
We tried to reach out to Hick for comment, but for some reason we’re now blocked.
