CO-SEN Megathread: Cory In The House

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Perlmutter sucks but Hickenlooper is even worse so I'll take Perlmutter...
But actually you know what?
Why not just run Udall again?
What's the point? He's not stupid enough to run another abortion centred campaign and he was one of the best US Senators imo. And there's NO way Udall loses, not with Trump on the ballot
Neguse is great too but I think he wants to serve more then one term in the house lol.

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Romanoff isn't a serious candidate as far as I can tell but I'm tentatively giving him my critical support as of This Point.

Duran is going to be Ayanna Pressley 2.0, IMO.

Wow...
But curious, why does everyone want to primary DeGette?

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Hickenlooper not running

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/23/john-hickenlooper-2020-senate-1182424?cid=apn

Nice!

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Gardner is likely going to lose, but why does Atlas pretend he is DOA no matter what? You guys seriously think he'd have no chance of winning even in a red wave against a weak opponent?

LOL @ Red wave. An unpopular president like Trump is not going to generate a "red wave". Not saying it will be an amazing year for democrats but if Trump wins it will be narrow. In his max scenario, I'd say he wins 2016+ME, NH, MN, NV. So I can't see Gardner pulling through with Trump winning the Presidency without it, which is very possible. In fact(and this will cause some eyerolls for sure) he could lose by 10 in CO and still win the presidency.

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(dramatic voice)Democratic primary Voters of Colorado, please dont make me donate to the green party candidate in this race. I don't even like them and all they want is attention. But I'm at my wits end with loser DINOs like Hickenlooper.
DONT PICK HICK

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We know Hickenlooper wont be like Manchin. That's not the point. I want the overton window to shift and we cant do that if we are letting people like Hickenlooperwin in Safe D states like Colorado

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As Cleveland from family guy would say- No no no no no no NOOOOOO!

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I have lost any semblence of respect for the DSCC. They are shameful

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The nuance I would add here is that while I respect more leftwing Dems wanting a more progressive candidate (and I think it's laudable from some posters here to draw a distinction between more conservative states and places like Colorado where a leftist candidate probably can win) I think there's still a point to not declare civil war everytime you lose a primary. Even the most right-wing Democrats are a lot better than Republicans.

Like, fight out the primary and sure put pressure on the guy to vote more left, but don't BernieBro it.

So we should just sit back and let this guy win? This is someone who compared bernie's policies to stalin!  HE's the divisive one! Healthcare for all, single payer, 15 minimum wage, and raising taxes on the rich are things that need to happen and he is completely against them. Therefore I will fight tooth and the nail to make sure he loses the primary!

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Look, there are perfectly legitimately reasons to dislike Hickenlooper but for those of you who do dislike him - seriously, come to terms with it now. He's inevitable. You'll save yourself a lot of avoidable anguish if you just accept it.

It may be the case that he ends up winning, but that doesn't mean we should allow him to get away with being more to the right of the average Coloradan. Recent statewide winners in this state have been more left-leaning than him, so in the event that he does win, we should try our best to push him more to the left of where he currently is, and if he fails to do that, I would gladly welcome primary challengers who are to the left of him.

Far-left Denocrat will lose Colorado to moderate Republican in 2026 (2nd Democrat midterm) (Scenario, where Hickenlooper elected in 2020, primaried by far-left Democrat in 2026 and lost primary). So, Hickenlooper is the best Democrat who can win Senate race in 2020 and then in 2026

Colorado is gone for republicans and by 2026 it will be further gone. Unless we run some anti white lunatic like Saira Rao we will win. That includes people like Neguse. So the electability argument is null here

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I’d just like to say that no one is disputing that Hickenlooper will crush Corey. The problem many of us have with him is that any competent dem can beat Corey thanks to partisanship so why do we have to have some old moderate who would take on the role of Lieberman and sabotage any healthcare reform over a young progressive star like Romanoff who could be molded into a future presidential candidate?

A "young progressive star"? Who lost to Michael Bennet in the primary in 2010 and to Mike Coffman in the general in 2014? If that's a "young progressive star", then I wonder who is the "young progressive icon" in your view.

Yeah, the clown knows it too, no response. Sad!

That was in 2014, which was a republican wave year, where the republicans were still winning college educated whites, of which Colorado has a lot. Donald Trump is on the ballot and he is repelling those voters in droves. Colorado is not going to vote republican in 2020. The end.

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Hickenlooper is becoming bidenesque. He's better off keeping his mouth shut. Unfortunately he doesnt seem to understand that.
And I hope Chuck Schumer realizes what a moron he was for pressuring him to run in the first place.

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I think Warren probably thinks Romanoff will lose regardless. I mean, she just endorsed Bowman for God's sake

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As far as I'm concerned, Warren just threw a pillow over the Romanoff campaign's head to protect a conservative Democrat running in a blue state.

Can we bring back the snake emojis?

Shes thirsty for vp and is delusional enough to think she still has a chance.

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Honestly very disappointing we couldn’t get someone better than Romanoff to challenge Hickenlooper.

If Joe Salazar had won attorney general, he could have run. He does put his foot in his mouth sometimes though