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Republican Gabe Evans now holds a lead of 2,529 votes in 8th District U.S. House race
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Republican Gabe Evans now holds a lead of 2,529 votes in 8th District U.S. House race

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice In a latest report from the Colorado secretary of state's office, Republican Gabe Evans has pulled ahead of Democrat Yadira Caraveo in the 8th District U.S. House race. Evans now holds 49.03% of votes, with Caraveo trailing at 48.21%, which presently places the race outside the threshold of an automatic recount. The 2,529-vote lead is a significant swing from where the race sat just a few days ago. The one-term U.S. Rep. Caraveo once led by a somewhat comfortable 1.59% margin. On Thursday, Evans narrowed the deficit to 2,096, which represented less than one-tenth of 1% of all votes to have been counted. A day earlier, Caraveo had a 3,817-vote lead, when an estimated 16.63% of the vote remained unreported. The 8th District is typically view...
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Why Kamala Harris got so many fewer votes than Biden
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Why Kamala Harris got so many fewer votes than Biden

By Fred Lucas | Daily Signal Social media posts after the presidential election were abuzz about the disparity in the vote tally from 2020 to 2024.  Preliminary counts show President-elect Donald Trump with almost as many votes as he got in 2020, when he came up short in his reelection effort against Joe Biden. Trump appears to have 73.3 million votes now; in 2020, he won 74.2 million.  But Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have won about 12 million fewer votes than Biden did against Trump in 2020. Biden won 81.2 million votes in 2020; Harris so far has 69 million votes.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL
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Some candidates still watching and waiting to see if final returns can flip their fortunes
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Some candidates still watching and waiting to see if final returns can flip their fortunes

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice Polls closed nearly 72 hours ago at this point, but there are still some races in Colorado that could drag into the weekend and perhaps next week before a clear winner is decided. The most high-profile of those races is in Northern Colorado, where Gabe Evans and Yadira Caraveo are fighting it out for the 8th District seat in the U.S. House. But, there are other seats which are either undecided or close enough a trailing candidate with some help in remaining vote returns might have a chance for a comeback. Here's a look at the races we're still watching across the state: District 8, U.S. Representative: Democrat Yadira Caraveo's margin in the race is shrinking. A race the one-term U.S. Rep. Caraveo once led by a somewhat comfortable 1.59% ...
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Evans campaign predicts victory in 8th District: “We are confident that Gabe will win”
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Evans campaign predicts victory in 8th District: “We are confident that Gabe will win”

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice Gabe Evans is closing in fast on Democrat Yadira Caraveo, and his campaign believes he will pull out victory in the 8th District U.S. House race. A race the one-term U.S. representative Caraveo once led by a somewhat comfortable 1.59% margin has been closed to a 0.44% difference between Evans and Caraveo. As of late Friday, Evans trails by 1,321 votes. "With late ballots trending toward Gabe and with tens of thousands of uncounted ballots remaining across the district, we are confident that Gabe will win," said Alan Philp, a spokesperson for the Evans campaign. The Associated Press indicates 9.87% of the vote remains unreported. Caraveo holds 48.85% of the 297,106 votes in the race. Evans holds 48.41% of the vote. On Thursday, Evans nar...
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Denver voters reject Mike Johnston’s sales tax hike for affordable housing, latest tally shows
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Denver voters reject Mike Johnston’s sales tax hike for affordable housing, latest tally shows

By Alexander Edwards | Denver Gazette Denver voters have rejected Mayor Mike Johnston's proposal to increase the city’s sales tax rate by 0.5 points in order to pay for housing projects citywide. The tax hike proposal divided the Denver City Council, where it was delayed, amended and ultimately sent to the Denver ballot in August. Johnston, who campaigned for the measure at several events ahead of the November election, said the increase would raise about $100 million annually. Using existing funds, city staffers earlier said Denver can expect to build or preserve about 20,000 units. Revenue from the sales tax increase would double that over 10 years. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Close to 1 million Colorado voters returned their ballots on Election Day
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Close to 1 million Colorado voters returned their ballots on Election Day

By Maddie Rhodes | Fox 31 News On Election Day, many Coloradans were still in the process of casting their votes. Within less than 24 hours, almost a million people returned their ballots. On Monday, only about half the registered voters in Colorado had voted. The Colorado Secretary of State said that 2,092,035 people returned their ballots by Monday, marking over half the 4,027,830 active voters in Colorado. However, voter turnout continued to rise. By Tuesday morning, another half a million people returned their ballots, totaling 2,507,472 Coloradans. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Downtown Denver’s $570M recovery plan gets strong support from voters
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Downtown Denver’s $570M recovery plan gets strong support from voters

By Bernadette Berdychowski  | Colorado Politics Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s first major initiative toward reviving downtown from its pandemic downturn got strong support from eligible voters. More than 81% of voters chose to expand the Downtown Development Authority — created to fund Union Station’s 2014 restoration using tax-increment financing — to cover the rest of downtown Denver and generate nearly half-a-billion dollars for funding projects across the city core. “As cities across the country struggle to bring their downtown back to pre-pandemic levels, Denver has decided to face this seemingly unsolvable challenge head-on and bet on our cultural, civic, and economic core by passing 6A with more than 80% support,” Johnston said in a statement Wednesday. READ THE FULL...
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Pugliese elected House minority leader, Winter as assistant leader by Republicans
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Pugliese elected House minority leader, Winter as assistant leader by Republicans

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice Rep. Rose Pugliese will again serve as Colorado House Minority Leader, following an unopposed election to the position Friday, Nov. 8. She will be joined in Republican House leadership by Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winter, Minority Whip Ryan Armagost and Caucus Chair Anthony Hartsook. As the House Republican leader, Pugliese pledged to continue a practice of inclusion of all voices within the caucus from all areas of the state. "We have made decisions together," she said. "I think it is important to have each member of the caucus have a voice." Pugliese headed up a Republican caucus of 19 members in the 74th Legislative Session, and continues to hope a few yet to-be-decided races fall in Republicans' favor to give her more membership....
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UPDATED: Colorado House Republicans to choose leadership Friday for 75th session via Zoom; House Dems election adds Zoom link
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UPDATED: Colorado House Republicans to choose leadership Friday for 75th session via Zoom; House Dems election adds Zoom link

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice At least two new legislators will be selected Friday, Nov. 8, to Republican leadership when the Colorado House Republican Caucus convenes for leadership elections at 10 a.m. The election was to take place in the historic Old State Library at the Colorado State Capitol, but a winter storm caused leadership to announce a move to Zoom. You can join the meeting HERE. "We regret any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding as we prioritize safety," the announcement from Colorado House Republicans reads. The elections set the minority party's leadership for the 75th General Assembly. Returning to the 75th General Assembly are Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winter, Caucus Chair Mary Bradfield ...
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