For all the boasting and blue nob polishing claims that Colorado won the battle to swing the state even further left this election, Democrats lost the war for a supermajority in the state legislature.
Democrats already had a supermajority in the state House but needed to win more state Senate seats to make their authoritarian dreams come true, and that’s not happening.
They fell short by at least one seat.
From the Colorado Sun:
That kept the party from a rare level of political power that would have allowed Democrats to override gubernatorial vetoes, refer constitutional amendments without Republican help, and expand their edge on key committees that shape and advance legislation.
Their shot at a supermajority vanished as Republicans held on in rural swing districts and flipped the suburban seat of outgoing Sen. Kevin Priola, a Henderson Democrat who was a Republican when he was elected.
PeakNation™ will also remember that Democrats had their eyes on winning the district 6 Senate seat with Vivian Smotherman against Cleave Simpson of Alamosa.
Smotherman would have been the first trans senator in Colorado but lost 44% to 56%.
Just weeks before the election, she was busted for blowing campaign funds on a beauty consultant to do hair and makeup, signaling to voters how careless she was likely to spend their tax dollars if elected.
Vivian Smotherman
We disagree with some media characterizations that the state slide even further to the left in this election cycle.
9News (of course) used Mesa County as an example of shifting demographics favoring Democrats:
For instance, in Mesa County, Trump beat Biden by 28 points in 2020. This election, Harris is down in Mesa County by 22 points. Still a large margin, but six points better.
And yet, that six points only amounted to 173 more votes for Harris than Biden received in 2020.
What’s odd in Mesa County is that 7,000 more Republicans voted in 2020 than in 2016 and 2024.
Trump 2016 49,779
Trump 2020 56,894
Trump 2024 49,774
Hillary 2016 21,729
Biden 2020 31,536
Harris 2024 31,709
By these numbers, the Democrat surge in Mesa County occurred before Biden was elected, not after in this election.
Also, Harris is underperforming Biden in Colorado overall by a quarter million votes, while Trump is just short 120,000 Republican votes since 2020.
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