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With Trump pick, J.D. Vance is first post-9/11 vet on major-party ticket
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With Trump pick, J.D. Vance is first post-9/11 vet on major-party ticket

By Nikki Wentling | Military Times J.D. Vance, named Monday as the Republican vice presidential running mate of former President Donald Trump, is known as many things: a bestselling author, a Republican senator, a former venture capitalist, a leading voice of conservatism, a onetime Trump critic – and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Vance, 39, is the first millennial on a major-party ticket, and a prominent veterans group heralded him Monday as the first among the post-9/11 generation of veterans to appear on a presidential ballot. “JD Vance may be the first of our generation of veterans to be on a major-party presidential ticket, but he most certainly won’t be the last,” said Allison Jaslow, an Iraq War veteran and the CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, or IAVA. “The p...
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Griswold calls for recount in House District 58 Republican primary race decided by three votes
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Griswold calls for recount in House District 58 Republican primary race decided by three votes

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice Three votes. That's how close the Colorado House District 58 Republican primary race was between Larry Don Suckla and Mark Roeber. The two candidates were separated by 0.02% of the vote. It falls within the criteria for a mandatory recount, called Monday by Secretary of State Jena Griswold. Any race not decided by at least 0.5% qualifies for a mandatory recount, a press statement from Griswold's office reads. “The unofficial results of the Republican primary race for House District 58 race show that every vote matters,” said Secretary of State Jena Griswold. She has notified the eight counties within the House district the recount must be complete by Friday, July 26. State law clarifies the process for a mandatory recount, Griswold's st...
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Poll: Colorado’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention are still backing Joe Biden
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Poll: Colorado’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention are still backing Joe Biden

By Jesse Paul and Sandra Fish | The Colorado Sun They’re still ridin’ with Biden. For now.  The Colorado Sun on Thursday polled nearly 20 of the state’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month, and none said they planned on not backing Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee for president.  However, some said they didn’t think Biden is the best option amid questions about his mental fitness and ability to beat Donald Trump, while others declined to comment. Colorado will have 87 delegates to the Aug. 19-22 convention, including the state’s two U.S. senators and five U.S. House members. And while they are instructed to vote in “good conscience” to back Biden since he won the Democratic presidential primaries this year in a landslide, t...
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For third time since 2019, Jefferson Co. voters will weigh in on elimination of TABOR refunds
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For third time since 2019, Jefferson Co. voters will weigh in on elimination of TABOR refunds

By Anya Moore | Denver Gazette For the third time in five years, Jefferson County's elected officials are asking voters to allow the local government to spend all of the revenue that it collects above the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights limit, thereby eliminating refunds to taxpayers.  For fiscal year 2024, that refund amount is estimated to be $54.4 million. Last year, the county refunded $39.4 million to roughly 210,000 property taxpayers. The county's voters rejected the idea twice — in 2019 and 2022 — but the county's commissioners this month insisted that, after "engaging" with the public through "both qualitative and quantitative research," voters need to decide the question again.   READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Trump: ‘I’m not supposed to be here’
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Trump: ‘I’m not supposed to be here’

By Byron York | Washington Examiner Former President Donald Trump can’t stop thinking about the way he moved his head in the split second before a gunman, intent on assassinating him, pulled the trigger during his speech in Pennsylvania Saturday evening. Trump was standing at the podium and began to refer to a large screen, hanging to his right, that showed statistics about immigration. To better see the screen, Trump turned his head to the right and a little up, and at the millisecond in which his head was at just the right angle for the bullet to graze his ear but not enter his skull — at that moment, the bullet whizzed by. Trump suffered a bloody wound to his ear, but no other injuries. It seemed like a miracle. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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Shoes, fist-pumps, open-air venue, 150-yard building, more were security concerns, former Secret Service agents say
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Shoes, fist-pumps, open-air venue, 150-yard building, more were security concerns, former Secret Service agents say

By Russ Jones | The Epoch Times As gunshots rang out during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, Secret Service agents quickly formed a protective circle around the former president and escorted him off the platform to a waiting vehicle. The shooter, who was killed immediately after the attack, was a resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles south of the rally site in Butler. He had positioned himself on a factory rooftop approximately 130 yards from the Butler Showgrounds and fired a number shots at President Trump, with one bullet grazing Trump’s right ear. A former fire chief who was attending the rally with his family was killed in the shooting. Two other rally attendees were also critically ...
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‘When you are at that podium, the last thing on your mind is this’: Sen. Cory Gardner, who Trump rallied for in 2019
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‘When you are at that podium, the last thing on your mind is this’: Sen. Cory Gardner, who Trump rallied for in 2019

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain voice Some 43 years ago a small child in Yuma, Colo., on the far Eastern Plains of the state would end his days in prayer for President Ronald Reagan's health after a would-be assassin's bullet hospitalized him. That was 1981. Today, that small child is known as former U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, who once again finds himself in prayer for a President and the nation. "My mother tells the story," Gardner said. "She says I prayed every night for President Reagan and Mr. Brady. I'm now 49 years old praying the same prayer." He never expected another assassination attempt in America, or to personally know the President who was shot. "It is a despicable and vile act of cowardice," Gardner said, reflecting on the shooting and intended assassination of P...
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Trump calls for supporters, America to ‘fear not’ and ‘stand united’
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Trump calls for supporters, America to ‘fear not’ and ‘stand united’

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice Former President Donald J. Trump called upon America to "stand united" in an early-morning Truth Social post Sunday, following an assassination attempt on his life Saturday. Mr. Trump had begun only brief remarks Saturday afternoon in Butler, Penn., when shots from an assassin's rifle, interrupting a campaign rally in rural, western Pennsylvania, could be heard on TV broadcasts. "We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our faith and defiant in the face of wickedness," Mr. Trump wrote on his social media platform. "Our love goes out to the other victims and their families. We pray for the recovery of those who were wounded, and hold in our hearts the memory of the citizen who was so horribly killed." As Mr. Trump asked the crowd i...
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Secret Service faces questions after Trump assassination attempt
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Secret Service faces questions after Trump assassination attempt

By Stephen Dinan and Kerry Picket | The Washington Times The U.S. House’s top investigator said he will demand answers from the Secret Service after former President Donald Trump was shot during a campaign rally Saturday. “There are many questions and Americans demand answers. I have already contacted the Secret Service for a briefing and am also calling on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear for a hearing,” said Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. And allies of Mr. Trump are questioning why his opponents want to put his life in more danger by writing legislation that would remove his Secret Service protection. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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National Review: The attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump
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National Review: The attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump

By THE EDITORS | Commentary, National Review The nation escaped an unspeakable tragedy that would have been profoundly destabilizing for the country by perhaps a few centimeters. As it is, what happened in Butler, Pa., is godawful enough. A gunman tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump and grazed his ear with a bullet, while killing one rally-goer and seriously injuring others. This was a heinous act of violence and an attack on American democracy. Trump’s reaction was truly extraordinary and will long be remembered. After Secret Service officers threw themselves on the former president and then picked him up to begin to take him to safety, he insisted on pausing on the stage, with blood streaming down his face, and pumping his fist to the crowd and repe...
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