Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) “is poised to walk away from seniority, the Senate and Washington,” Politico reports.
“He’s frustrated with Congress, yes, but also Joe Biden’s selfishness, what Donald Trump has done to both parties and the corrosive impact of social media on politics, the media and even the once-presumed idea of shared facts. Bennet is almost certain to run for governor in his adopted state.”
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) is “very, very seriously” considering a run for Colorado governor in 2026, the Colorado Sun reports.
A new Marist poll in Colorado finds Sen. Michael Bennet (D) has a 7-point advantage over challenger Joe O’Dea (R), 48% to 41%.
In the governor’s race, Gov. Jared Polis (D) leads challenger Heidi Ganahl (R) by 18 points, 54% to 36%.
Nearly 30,000 people — or at least Facebook profiles — have joined a Facebook page and professed their support for a recall of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D), the Greeley Tribune reports.
“Colorado’s gubernatorial candidates are rich and richer — and their complex financial histories are testing the limits of the state’s financial disclosure laws while raising concerns about conflicts of interest,” the Denver Post reports.
“Republican state Treasurer Walker Stapleton comes from old money. His mother is a cousin to former President George H.W. Bush, and his father is a prominent Connecticut businessman turned ambassador who once was part owner of the Texas Rangers and now co-owns the St. Louis Cardinals.”
“Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis is new money. One of the wealthiest members of Congress, Polis and his family struck gold during the early days of the internet. Since then, he has started or invested in dozens of other companies in a variety of sectors.”
“Money is a touchy subject for both men. They have bucked long-held political tradition by not releasing their recent tax returns — a move nearly unheard of in recent Colorado political history before President Donald Trump refused to disclose his tax documents during the 2016 election. And each candidate’s allies are flinging accusations, citing varying degrees of evidence, about the other’s finances.”
A new SEIU/Strategies 360 poll finds that Jared Polis (D) holds a lead over Cary Kennedy (D) atop the four-way Democratic primary to be Colorado’s next governor, 34% to 23%, but both would defeat Republican frontrunner Walker Stapleton (D) by the same margin in a general election.
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R_CO) “is ending his bid for the Republican nomination for Colorado governor on Tuesday because he hasn’t raised the money he believes would be necessary to win an expensive election against a wealthy Democrat willing to spend millions on his campaign,” Colorado Politics reports.
Said Tancredo: “I do not want to win a primary and lose a general, and I fear that was where we were going.”
“After back-to-back losses in 2010 and 2014, immigration hardliner and former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) plans to try again in 2018 to become Colorado’s next governor — a move spurred in part by his anger at Republicans for not protesting when a Colorado Springs resort canceled a white nationalist conference where he was supposed to speak,” the Denver Post reports.
Tom Tancredo said that he “sat down with former White House strategist Stephen Bannon and hinted that the two hard-right agitators discussed the possibility of Tancredo running for Colorado governor next year,” the Denver Post reports.
Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) plans to announce that he will end his run for Colorado governor, just three months after he started it, the Denver Post reports.
“The surprise decision by the sixth-term lawmaker comes a few weeks after another Colorado Democrat, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder, said he would join the race. The entry of Polis put substantial pressure on Perlmutter — as Polis could pour a substantial amount of his personal wealth into his campaign while Perlmutter would have to compete for campaign funds with several other well-connected Democrats.”
Doug Robinson, who is Mitt Romney’s nephew, is running for governor of Colorado, the Denver Post reports.
“The Denver investment banker declared his candidacy for the 2018 race in a letter sent to Republican activists and launched online advertisements directed to a new campaign website.”
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