Voting has begun in Colorado’s Republican primary. It closes on June 28. With electable GOP candidates, there’s a chance of catching the red wave that’s coming nationally this fall. Here are my picks in the biggest races:
US Senate - Joe O’Dea
Governor - Heidi Ganahl
Secretary of State - Pam Anderson
My support isn’t about whether they are the truest conservatives, or the most like Trump, or the most like me. All that is beside the point.
It’s because they have the best chance to win in November, the best chance to defeat Democrat incumbents by competing for the political center and appealing to our state’s biggest voter group, the unaffiliated.
That’s why Democrats are spending huge money to drive GOP voters in the other direction—toward Ron Hanks for Senate and Greg Lopez for Governor. They see the “deep red” views of Hanks and Lopez (many of which I share) as much easier to beat in “deep purple” Colorado.
Dems are also delighted that Tina Peters, under criminal indictment for her actions as an election official (by a Republican DA), is running strong for the Secretary of State nomination. Might she be acquitted at trial? I hope so. But the general election is game-over by then.
Leftist Secretary of State Jena Griswold, along with leftist Sen. Michael Bennet and leftist Gov. Jared Polis, want you and me to nominate a supposedly pure—but fatally flawed—slate of challengers to them. Easy pickings in November, they think with glee. Let’s not do them that favor!
If nominated in the Republican primary, Hanks and Lopez and Peters will be weighed down by so much baggage they’ll never overcome the 300,000 to 400,000 vote advantage Democrats demonstrated in 2020.
Remember the debacle in 2010, when Colorado missed the national red wave because Dem dirty tricks swung the GOP primary to the unknown and unelectable Dan Maes? Democrats are at it again this year, running what Rush used to call an “Operation Chaos” right in our own backyard. Don’t fall for it.
Colorado is now a purple state trending blue; sad but true. As Republicans we have to adjust. I’ve certainly had to, and it’s been painful. But I’ve faced the cold reality that if we don’t win, we don’t govern.
O’Dea and Ganahl and Anderson can win—and will then serve honorably. Please join me in supporting them.