The Colorado Independent » Politics

President Donald Trump is collecting the bulk of campaign donations from Colorado, but former Vice President Joe Biden began to close the gap after emerging as the presumptive Democratic nominee....

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/08/19/president-trump-fundraising-colorado-democrat-biden/

The total spent on lobbying at the Colorado Capitol topped $40 million this session — a record driven in part because of contentious last-minute legislation introduced in response to the corona...

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/07/28/lobbying-colorado-capitol-coronavirus-response/

Andrew Romanoff is criticizing his opponent in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary for accepting money from oil and gas executives, but most of the industry’s campaign cash is headed to the Repu...

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/25/oil-gas-donors-hickenlooper-gardner-romanoff/

John Hickenlooper and Andrew Romanoff, Colorado’s 2020 Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, met in a television studio for a debate Tuesday night. It was their first — and only — one-on-o...

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/17/colorado-democratic-senate-primary-debate/

Colorado’s legislative primaries are coming down to a battle of partisanship: Is one Republican more conservative than another? Which Democrat will hold the party line? The ideological tests �...

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/16/2020-colorado-legislative-primaries-money/

For decades, it’s been generally accepted that Republican candidates can’t win statewide in Colorado without solid GOP turnout in El Paso County, and the same holds true for Republican presid...

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/11/infighting-controversies-el-paso-county-gop/

John Hickenlooper touted his record as governor and ability to find compromise, and his rival Andrew Romanoff called for bolder action to address racial injustice, health care and climate change ...

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/10/3-takeaways-from-the-first-u-s-senate-debate-between-democrats-john-hickenlooper-and-andrew-romanoff/

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper violated the state’s constitutional gift ban by accepting private flights aboard company jets owned by his friends, an ethics panel decided Friday. The C...

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/05/hickenlooper-violated-colorado-gift-ban-ethics/

John Hickenlooper, the national Democratic favorite in Colorado’s U.S. Senate race, is backtracking from a statement he made about Black Lives Matter during a racial-justice forum, saying, “...

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/02/hickenlooper-black-lives-matter-senate-race/

Temperature checks. A closed cafeteria. Spaced seating. Lawmakers in masks separated by plexiglass. This may be the new normal at the state Capitol when the legislature reconvenes as soon as May ...

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/05/15/colorado-capitol-budget-cuts-public-access-covid-19/