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‘Now that it’s over, it’s over,’ McConnell says in support of Trump following Haley exit
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‘Now that it’s over, it’s over,’ McConnell says in support of Trump following Haley exit

By BURGESS EVERETT | Politico Mitch McConnell is endorsing Donald Trump for president, a move that the Senate GOP leadermadeafter Trump's only main rival dropped out of the GOP primary. Despite their nonexistent relationships over the past three years, McConnell has always maintained he would support the eventual Republican nominee — and Nikki Haley's Wednesday suspension of her campaign unlocked McConnell's formal endorsement. His decision to formally back Trump amounts to a detente, however involuntary, after a rocky three years between the two men. It also illustrates that the two men may still need each other politically: McConnell is trying to take back the Senate majority for Republicans at the end of the year, while Trump is trying to win many of the same battleground ...
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Trump now faces ‘time of choosing’, Haley says as she suspends campaign
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Trump now faces ‘time of choosing’, Haley says as she suspends campaign

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice Nikki Haley has suspended her campaign for President, but perhaps not her advocacy for traditional Republican conservative values. Channeling Ronald Reagan, she termed this “a time of choosing” for former President Donald Trump, now presumed to be the Republican nominee for President for the third consecutive time. “It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him,” Haley said from Charleston, S.C. “I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. Our conservative cause badly needs more people.” The goal of the campaign was to help Americans have their voices heard, Haley said, and “I have done that; I have no regrets.” ...
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In Weld County, emu named ‘Buddy’ on the loose identified as an ostrich by passerby
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In Weld County, emu named ‘Buddy’ on the loose identified as an ostrich by passerby

By Heather Willard | KDVR-TV Sometimes, law enforcement is asked to respond to some uncommon calls. On Tuesday, for example, Weld County Sheriff’s Office Animal Control Officers responded to a report of an “ostrich in the roadway.” The “ostrich” turned out to be an emu who was out wandering in the area of Weld County Road 76 and County Road 33. County animal control officers were able to capture and contain the large, flightless bird, and safely hold the emu in a nearby fenced residential yard — with permission from the owner. A passerby was able to identify the emu’s owner as Andrew Leffler, who was notified and picked up his emu, who he said was named Buddy. READ THE FULL STORY AT KDVR-TV FOX 31
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Pueblo’s new Fuel & Iron food hall accused in lawsuit of shorting its builders as construction lagged, costs soared
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Pueblo’s new Fuel & Iron food hall accused in lawsuit of shorting its builders as construction lagged, costs soared

By Jennifer Brown and Tamara Chuang | Colorado Sun One of the coolest endeavors to open in Pueblo in recent years is tangled up in a court battle after being accused of not paying its builders for the full cost of the project.  Fuel & Iron, the historic hardware store transformed into affordable housing and a trendy food hall where visitors can find cocktails and beer, pizza and fried chicken, opened in April. It was sued in May, its contractor claiming it was shorted more than $2.4 million.  The dispute is a black eye on a project heralded as the perfect mix of private investment and public dollars, a $16 million plan cobbled together from 17 sources, including grants and local, state and federal government investments. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Trump wins 57 of Colorado’s 64 counties in Super Tuesday rout of Haley
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Trump wins 57 of Colorado’s 64 counties in Super Tuesday rout of Haley

How did your county vote? See the county-by-county outcome below. By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice From the Western Slope to the Eastern Plains and from Fort Collins to Trinidad, on Super Tuesday former President Donald Trump garnered broad support from Colorado Republicans across the state. He won 57 of the state’s 64 counties, with more than half of those counties providing him at least 75% support. He won 20 counties – mostly in Eastern Colorado – with at least 80% support in a race that largely came down to Trump against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Only 3.3% of Republican ballots supported someone other than Trump or Haley. The unofficial ballot count gave Trump 517,884 votes across Colorado to secure 63.3% of the vote, with Haley taking 273,809 for 33...
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Bush-era ‘architect’ Karl Rove says Trump Team ‘ought to be concerned’ with party unification
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Bush-era ‘architect’ Karl Rove says Trump Team ‘ought to be concerned’ with party unification

By SARAH FORTINSKY | The Hill Republican strategist Karl Rove said former President Trump’s campaign “ought to be concerned” about unifying the Republican party, pointing to robust support for Republican candidate Nikki Haley’s candidacy on Super Tuesday. Rove called Super Tuesday a “strong night for Donald Trump” in an interview on Fox News, and described the former president’s campaign estimation that he would win a sufficient number of delegates to clinch the GOP nomination by later this month as “probably accurate.” “Having said that, the high command of Team Trump ought to be concerned about unifying the Republican Party,” added Rove, a former top aide to former President George W. Bush. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL...
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Super Tuesday: Nikki Haley to suspend Presidential campaign as Trump goes 15-1 on big night
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Super Tuesday: Nikki Haley to suspend Presidential campaign as Trump goes 15-1 on big night

By Maegan Vazquez, Amy B Wang and Dylan Wells | Washington Post Nikki Haley, a former U.N. ambassador and governor of South Carolina, will suspend her presidential campaign, according to several people familiar with her plans, leaving Donald Trump with no major opponents left on his path to becoming the 2024 Republican nominee. The only woman in the Republican race and Trump’s final remaining major GOP rival, Haley campaigned on her foreign policy experience and general-election appeal, casting her candidacy as a generational change that could bring more voters into the Republican fold. She was the first candidate to announce a challenge to Trump and outlasted a large field of rivals who were viewed as more viable opponents to become the final candidate standing between him and the n...
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Trump projected to win Colorado’s Republican primary over Nikki Haley
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Trump projected to win Colorado’s Republican primary over Nikki Haley

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice Donald Trump is projected as the winner of Colorado’s Republican Party Presidential primary election. In early returns, he collected decisive victories in Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Mesa and Weld, taking victories in all but three counties in early returns from the Western Slope to the Eastern Plains. Nikki Haley was leading by about 4,000 votes in Denver County, where she held a campaign event and also in Eagle and Routt Counties. Early returns gave Trump 63.3% support toward his third straight Republican Party nomination in Colorado, with Haley gathering 33.3% of the vote. Among those with suspended campaigns gathering support, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis earned 1.5% support in early returns. Joe Biden is projected to easily earn ...
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Colorado primary turnout at 30.5% as of mid-Election Day report
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Colorado primary turnout at 30.5% as of mid-Election Day report

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice Election Day voting pushed turnout above 30.5% Tuesday and Republican Party primary ballots past 600,000, an 11 a.m. report from the secretary of state’s office detailed. There have been 1,155,302 ballots cast among 3,786,720 registered voters, with 59.1% of returned and counted ballots being voted in the Republican Party’s primary election. Ballots cast in the Democratic Party’s primary election trails by 18.3%, with 140,272 ballots in process. Unaffiliated voters have cast about 37.9% of all ballots in the primary election, with those voters casting 438,399 ballots. Almost half of the unaffiliated ballots cast – 204,172 – have been cast in the Republican Party’s primary, with 94,037 cast in the Democratic Party’s primary. Voting from...
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Elon Musk criticizes program that flew 320,000 ‘unvetted’ illegal immigrants into America
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Elon Musk criticizes program that flew 320,000 ‘unvetted’ illegal immigrants into America

By Shannon Thaler | New York Post Elon Musk ripped President Joe Biden’s administration for secretly flying 320,000 “unvetted” migrants into the US, signaling that “the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11.” Musk issued the grave warning on X Tuesday, noting that it’s “just a matter of time” that the US faces another terrorist attack of that magnitude. “This administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants,” Musk added in the post. “This is why groups on the far left fight so hard to stop voter ID requirements, under the absurd guise of protecting the right to vote,” the billionaire Tesla CEO said in a subsequent post that doubled down on his stance. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NEW...
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