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Colorado Progressives Celebrate Another Night of Historic Victories progressnowcolorado.org/2022/11/08/col… #copolitics #coleg #cogov #cosen
"If Colorado Republicans couldn’t win this year, they have only themselves to blame and they may truly be on the verge of permanent minority status in our state." progressnowcolorado.org/2022/11/08/col… #copolitics #coleg #cogov #cosen
"Colorado Republicans under Trump have made themselves toxic to Colorado voters, and voters saw right through Joe O’Dea’s desperate attempts to distance himself from his own party’s brand." @SaraLoflin progressnowcolorado.org/2022/11/08/col… #copolitics #coleg #cogov #cosen
NEW: A tearful @heidiganahl tells supporters: "I'm sorry we couldn't pull this off." Says Colorado "is slipping away from us." #cogov #copolitics
@heidiganahl "We're not going to give up the fight," Ganahl said. "We had to fight the media, the pundits, the stratgists, the dark money groups."
Ganahl thanks conservative talk radio for covering her message "when the mainstream media wouldn't." (Ganahl declined an in-depth interview and refused to debate Gov Polis on 9NEWS)
Pam Anderson Must Condemn Heidi Ganahl’s Last-Minute Attacks On Election Integrity progressnowcolorado.org/2022/11/07/pam… #copolitics #cogov
"Self-described MAGA activist Heidi Ganahl made her closing argument today with election conspiracy theorist Joe Oltmann, a man who has literally called for the execution of Ganahl’s opponent." @SaraLoflin #copolitics #cogov progressnowcolorado.org/2022/11/07/pam…
@SaraLoflin "Ganahl asked Trump coup mastermind Steve Bannon’s listeners to show up at polling places tomorrow to ‘overwhelm the system.’" progressnowcolorado.org/2022/11/07/pam… #copolitics #cogov
Waiting for @heidiganahl to speak at her closing rally. Event was slated to start at 6pm, doors opened at 5:45pm. #cogov 
“We turn out, we kick Democrats’ ass!” Ganahl campaign manager Asa Dyer tells the crowd.
Ganahl has taken the stage, saying “If our kids are not OK, nothing is OK.” Ganahl tells the crowd the media are “out of touch” and “don’t understand the Colorado way of life.”
NEW: CO GOP Gov candidate @heidiganahl is echoing her earlier suggestions that Republicans must win by a lot to overcome Democratic election rigging. On Steve Bannon's WarRoom today, Ganahl said, "We need everyone to turn out big to overwhelm the system." #cogov #copolitics
Bannon's program today featured a parade of election deniers sounding similar themes about how to defeat Democratic election rigging. Ganahl was immediately followed by Mike Lindell, who said huge Republican turnout is "going to override these algorithms tomorrow."
Ganahl has made similar comments about Republicans needing huge turnout to overcome election rigging, telling supporters in Nov 2021: "We've got to have such a red tsunami, that there's no question, there's no fixing it." 9news.com/article/news/l…
NEW: GOP #cogov candidate @heidiganahl's stand against an imagined CDC vaccine mandate for children (there isn't one) is drawing praise from @PamLongCO, an anti-vaccine advocate and writer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vax publication The Defender.
Long, who previously led Colorado Health Choices Alliance, which opposes vaccine requirements, urged the Ganahl campaign this AM to come out against a CDC mandate. Ganahl's campaign manager, @AsaDyer2, sent Long a Ganahl statement suggesting a coming CDC mandate.
The CDC is not requiring children to get the COVID vaccine to attend schools, despite claims to the contrary in conservative media. 9news.com/article/news/v…
NEW: @heidiganahl says educators are lying when they refute her claim that “kids are identifying as cats” in schools all over Colorado. “The school districts are not being truthful,” Ganahl told KNUS today. “I will tell the truth even if it is uncomfortable.” #cogov #copolitics
Today, @heidiganahl confirmed to KNUS host @GeorgeBrauchler that her campaign is collecting and distributing photos of children they believe are identifying as animals. “We provided pictures but we blurred out the faces,” Ganahl said.
It’s unclear how the Ganahl campaign is confirming that the individual children in the photos they are distributing identify as animals (as opposed to simply dressing up in cat ears or other type of animal costumes).
NEW: @heidiganahl again reinforces her claim that “kids are identifying as cats… it’s happening all over Colorado and schools are tolerating it.” Ganahl told KOA’s @MandyConnell that it’s happening at 30 Colo. schools and “it’s such a huge distraction to teaching kids.” #cogov
“This is another example of how the Governor and many in the media are living in a bubble,” Ganahl said. “Parents are ticked off,” Ganahl told @KOAColorado today. “There’s gonna be some backlash for this.”
Ganahl’s claim, while seeming to reference furry subculture which exists outside and inside schools, is actually more specific. Ganahl claimed the kids in costume 1) identify as animals 2) it’s happening all over Colorado 3) schools are tolerating it.
NEW: Joint poll by Democratic pollster @KeatingResearch and Republican pollster @MagellanStrat finds wide leads for Gov @jaredpolis (D) and Sen @MichaelBennet (D) over @heidiganahl (R) and @ODeaForColorado (R).
Polis 51%
Ganahl 34%
Bennet 46%
O'Dea 36%
Polis 51%
Ganahl 34%
Bennet 46%
O'Dea 36%
@KeatingResearch @MagellanStrat @jaredpolis @MichaelBennet @heidiganahl @ODeaForColorado The online survey of 1,060 likely voters has a margin of error of +/- 3.01% at the 95% confidence interval.
The poll included third party candidate Danielle Neuschwanger, who has drawn criticism from @heidiganahl supporters for draining support from the GOP campaign. But @DanielleforCO barely registers.
Polis (D) 51%
Ganahl (R) 34%
Ruskusy (L) 1%
Neuschwanger (ACP) 1%
Undecided 11%
Polis (D) 51%
Ganahl (R) 34%
Ruskusy (L) 1%
Neuschwanger (ACP) 1%
Undecided 11%
NEW: Colorado’s most moderate Republican state lawmaker has switched political parties and is now a Democrat. @KevinPriola said there is too much at stake for Republicans to be in charge. #copolitics #cogov #coleg
@KevinPriola Priola,"I cannot continue to be part of a political party that is okay with a violent attempt to overturn a free and fair election and continues to peddle claims that the 2020 election was stolen."
NEW: Republican candidate for Colorado Governor @LopezforCO proposes eliminating one-person one-vote for statewide elections. Lopez's plan for a state-level electoral college system would heavily favor Republicans. 9news.com/article/news/l… #cogov #copolitics
Lopez outlined his proposal to scrap the popular vote during a May 15 campaign stop in rural San Juan County. Lopez said counties should be allotted electoral votes based on turnout percentage, which would concentrate electoral power in small, rural counties.
The Lopez campaign did not answer questions about the details of his electoral college proposal. In 2018, @GovofCO Polis defeated @WalkerStapleton by 10%+. Our analysis indicates Lopez's plan would have created a +28 pt shift to Republicans. Stapleton would have won by 18%.
Fmr GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo, who ran for Governor + President, defended this anti-Muslim meme claiming a photo from Afghanistan is actually from Dearborn, Michigan. "Have you ever been to Dearborn?" @RealTomTancredo told me. "I have. Seemed perfectly plausible." #copolitics #9NEWS
Tancredo also told me, "Since the photo is done as sarcasm and derision, what difference does it make where it was really taken?" (A quick Google search shows the photo was taken in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2009) #copolitics #9NEWS
I asked Tancredo whether he should avoid spreading obviously false information on social media because of his prominent public profile (he was the leading GOP #cogov candidate earlier this year). #copolitics #9NEWS
