Sen. John Hickenlooper wins Colorado Democratic Senate primary over progressive challenger
Hickenlooper won with 57% of votes counted as unaffiliated voters and a fundraising edge helped him beat progressive challenger Julie Gonzales.
- On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper won Colorado's Democratic Senate primary, defeating state Sen. Julie Gonzales with 57% of the vote as called by The Associated Press at 7:38 p.m.
- Colorado's 2.3 million unaffiliated voters, who outnumber registered Democrats and Republicans , historically favor centrist candidates like Hickenlooper over progressive challengers.
- Gonzales, a Yale University graduate and community organizer, campaigned as a progressive while Hickenlooper secured support from the League of Conservation Voters. Gonzales raised only a tenth of Hickenlooper's campaign finances, roughly $870,000 versus around $7.7 million.
- Hickenlooper will face Mark Baisley, the de facto Colorado Republican nominee, in the November general election after the GOP failed to field any other competitors for the Senate race.
- The primary revealed a sharp ideological divide: Hickenlooper opposed "Medicare for All" during his 2020 presidential run, a policy Gonzales champions. This contrast defined the race between the incumbent centrist and the progressive challenger.
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Hickenlooper wins Colorado’s Democratic Senate primary election
Incumbent U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper took the victory in Colorado’s Democratic Senate primary race against state Sen. Julie Gonzales. The Associated Press called the win at 7:36 p.m., with preliminary results showing Hickenlooper leading with 57% of the vote. Hickenlooper will face off in November against Republican Sen. Mark Baisley for one of Colorado’s two U.S. Senate seats, both currently held by Democrats. Baisley, a member of the Colorado…
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John Hickenlooper wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Colorado
John Hickenlooper wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Colorado.
Hickenlooper Fends Off Primary Challenger, Enters Senate Race as November Favorite
DENVER—Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) has swept aside a progressive challenger in Colorado’s June 30 Democratic primary and will seek a second six-year Senate term in November against a Republican state lawmaker who did not face a primary to earn the GOP’s November berth. Hickenlooper, a former two-term Colorado governor, had garnered around 322,000 votes for 57.3 percent of the tally when he was declared the winner at 9:36 p.m. ET by The Asso…
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