Even as U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet was set to mark his largest margin of victory yet, he said “Colorado absolutely remains a swing state.”
As the top-ticket races started falling in Democrats’ favor Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper predicted his party might be on the precipice of a “wave-lett” in Colorado.
“Everybody was counting the Senate Democrats out,” Steve Fenberg, leader of Colorado’s Senate Democrats, said at his party’s election night get-together. “This was the chamber that was going to flip. There was a new frontier for the GOP in Colorado. But today, not only are we going to keep the majority we are going to be exceeding all expectations.”
The same was true in the House, where Democrats had hoped to lose only a handful of seats. But close, targeted races in El Paso County, in the mountains and in northwest Colorado were trending blue. Even Rep. Colin Larson, the Ken Caryl Republican set to be elected minority leader on Thursday, was trailing Democratic challenger Tammy Story. Larson did not return a message seeking comment Tuesday night.
Fenberg, of Boulder, said affordability, climate, and eliminating the deficit in education funding will be among his caucus’s top priorities for the upcoming session. If this election cycle was a referendum on Democratic leadership, he takes it to mean voters like the party’s priorities. “Do we have a brand problem?” he asked of Republicans in Colorado. “We certainly have in past elections — is that lingering? I don’t know. Or has the state fundamentally changed?”
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