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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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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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Secretary Griswold: ‘Election night results are not final results’
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Secretary Griswold: ‘Election night results are not final results’

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice As polls close on Election Day and votes are tallied, there is a specific process that follows, Secretary of State Jena Griswold indicates. “Election night results are not final results in Colorado,” Griswold said. “After Election Day, ballots continue to be counted, military and oversees voters return their ballots, signature discrepancies can be fixed, and bipartisan audits are conducted to confirm the results – there is quite a bit of activity that occurs after Election Day across the state.” Initial results are not reported within the state until polls close across the state. After polls close at 7 p.m., counties begin to upload results to the state’s centralized Election Night Reporting system, Griswold said, and results will be avai...
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Taylor Swift reminds 282 million Instagram followers its Super Tuesday
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Taylor Swift reminds 282 million Instagram followers its Super Tuesday

By CHRISTINE ZHU | Politico Taylor Swift is encouraging fans in Tennessee and other Super Tuesday states to cast their votes for the presidential primaries. The world’s most famous pop star issued the call in an Instagram story post to her 282 million followers Tuesday morning, just before the site experienced a temporary outage. “I wanted to remind you guys to vote the people who most represent YOU into power,” Swift wrote. “If you haven’t already, make a plan to vote today.” The post linked off to Vote.org. READ THE FULL STORY AT POLITICO
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Reminder: Head to the polls today to weigh in on Presidential primary
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Reminder: Head to the polls today to weigh in on Presidential primary

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice About one-quarter of registered voters statewide had cast a ballot in a party primary entering Monday. Election Day is today, March 5. Among the 838,903 ballots to have been processed, 58.6% have been in the Republican Party. Ballots cast in the Democratic Party primary are trailing by 17.4%. Unaffiliated voters have returned 356,940 ballots, of which 161,274 have been in the Republican Party’s primary and 120,317 of which are being processed. Today, voters will have a couple of options. First, a completed ballot may still be cast at a drop box location through 7 p.m. Also, voters may cast a ballot in-person at the voting center in their county of residence. The last day for a county clerk to receive a ballot by mail is today. Polls are o...
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Sonnenberg wins 4th District straw poll in Holyoke, his second straw poll victory
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Sonnenberg wins 4th District straw poll in Holyoke, his second straw poll victory

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice The candidate that emerges in Colorado’s 4th District to represent the eastern third of the state in Congress will have a tall order – to serve a predominately urban population along the Front Range and a mostly rural population along the furthest reaches of the Eastern Plains. Jerry Sonnenberg may have begun making the case he is one who can do it, winning his second straw poll in the district Sunday at a tri-county forum held in Holyoke. The combined Phillips, Sedgwick and Yuma County event drew a crowd of about 200-250 and Sonnenberg came away with 55 of the 184 votes cast to take 29.9% of the vote. Ted Harvey gathered 38 votes to finish second and Lauren Boebert was third with 30 votes. Boebert had won a previous straw poll in Windsor...
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