State and national mainstream media insist Colorado has shifted even further to the left politically and think that’s what magically bucked the national trend to vote for Donald Trump at our state borders.
We countered last week it was fake news that we’ve lost even more political ground and we stand by our opinion.
Republicans have since won a tremendous victory in flipping the 8th District Congressional seat for GOP candidate Gabe Evans to give us a 4-4 even split of representation in the U.S. House.
Democrats blew more than $16 million on the Western Slope District 3 seat and still couldn’t wrestle it from the grip of determined conservatives.
Even when the media pitched in to frame Lauren Boebert as some empty-headed hussy who likes to fight more than Beth Dutton, the left still couldn’t beat her with nearly $4 million and an airhead establishment bureaucrat who used her campaign war chest to draw a personal paycheck.
Then Republicans dashed Democrat dreams of winning a supermajority in the state legislature, denying them the power to block gubernatorial vetoes, and preventing them from putting constitutional questions directly on the ballot without Republican input or support.
Democrats only needed to win one seat from Republicans to make that happen in the Senate, and mercifully failed when the GOP instead reclaimed a seat held by a party-switcher.
Now the Dems supermajority status in the House is as risk where the GOP needs to flip three seats to make that happen.
Which brings us to Greeley, where Republican Ryan Gonzales has flipped a seat held by Democrats since 2005 by beating three-term state Rep. Mary Young.
All eyes are now on potential seats two and three where Republicans are leading over Democrats.
In the Colorado Springs area of District 16, Republican Rebecca Keltie was leading Democrat Steph Vigil after the last weekend count by 21 votes.
In the Boulder and Weld area where Democrat Jillaire McMillan is trying to fend off Dan Woog from reclaiming the seat he lost to her two years ago, the Republican Woog leads by 207 votes.
Other key Republican wins include Yazmin Navarro, who beat Rhonda Solis for the District 8 State Board of Education seat.
In Pueblo, Kala Beauvaias flipped the district attorney seat to become their first female Republican DA.
After voters finish curing their ballots on Wednesday, county clerks will wrap up their count on Thursday when all races will be finalized.
As for Trump, he had no more chance of flipping Colorado than he did California, Vermont or New York. Even though he did turn the Democrat stronghold of Pueblo to Republican red. That had to hurt.
But Colorado is not swinging even further to the left as some cool graphics created by the Washington Post and New York Times claimed just hours after the presidential race was called, with our local news outlets quick to follow.
Kamala Harris continues to underperform Joe Biden’s 2020 win here by two points, losing the votes of over 118,000 Coloradans since that race.
Looking at Trump’s numbers from 2016 until now, he’s still up by about 117,000 votes.
2024 2020 2016
Kamala 1,686,157 Biden 1,804,352 Hillary 1,338,202
Trump 1,341,833 Trump 1,364,607 Trump 1,202,484
The Colorado media continues to embrace those Washington Post, NYT, and Associated Press graphics and suggest that because Colorado had only a small shift towards Trump, it’s proof we lurched just a little more left.
The Media is trying to tell us Colorado is a blue island but we just went from 5 Dems in Congress to now only 4.
How did Republicans win 4 out of 8 Congressional races in Colorado in 2024 if the entire state is so blue?#copolitics https://t.co/WDla3v3DmU— Mr T 2 (@GovtsTheProblem) November 10, 2024
Some are even brushing off the major GOP victory of taking the new congressional district as no big deal, while their legislative supermajority boasts will soon be history.
Democrats dismiss these Republican victories at their own peril.
But we’re okay with that.