By Jesse Paul | The Colorado Sun
The spending, most of it going toward ads attacking Melat Kiros, is the clearest sign yet that DeGette is at serious risk of being dislodged from Washington after nearly three decades.
trio of super PACs is dumping $1.3 million, most of it from unknown sources, into the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District in a last-minute effort to prevent longtime U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette from being unseated by political newcomer and Democratic socialist Melat Kiros.
The spending, most of it going toward ads attacking Kiros, is the clearest sign yet that DeGette may be at serious risk of being dislodged from Washington after nearly three decades.
Kiros, 29, is running as a liberal insurgent and is pitching voters on new federal representation for Denver. DeGette, who is 68 and was first elected to Congress in 1996, argues that her long tenure means she is primed for a leadership position in the U.S. House should Democrats retake Congress in November.
“I don’t think she’s in trouble so much as that it’s insurance money to make sure she doesn’t get in trouble,” said Mike Dino, a Democratic strategist in Denver. “I think this has been the pattern across the country where incumbents have been taken on by insurgents. There’s a lot of handwringing that there’s momentum for the insurgents.”
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