It is primary night in Colorado
and a critical night
for Republicans who hold the least power
in the state since before World War Two.
Anybody who picked up a democratic ballot
knows most of those races were uncontested,
so really didn't need to worry about those.
They've all been called the big news,
though, is on the GOP side.
That's why we need Marshall.
Yeah, Colorado's Republican
primary voters are moving away
from the far right of the party,
and candidates who've embraced the big Lie.
That the 2020 election was stolen.
Time to use my handy dandy map to show
some of these results here on the
map right now is the race for U.S.
Senate Joe O'Day defeated election
denied Iran Hanks in the Republican
Senate primary on perhaps a timely topic
abortion Oday 5545 right now supports
a woman's right to choose early in
pregnancy and in cases of rape, incest,
or if the mother's life is in danger.
He has said he's against late term abortion,
but he's not.
To find what he means by late term he will
face Democratic Senator Michael Bennett.
In November,
Democrats spent $4 million on ads
promoting O days opponent Hanks,
hoping he would be an easier candidate
for Bennett to beat in November.
Oday called out that tactic
in his victory speech tonight.
This multi $1,000,000 campaign
by Democrats in the Republican
primary is everything that American
people hate. About politics
it's pure cynicism, it's deceit.
The ads called Hanks too
conservative for Colorado,
trying to get conservative
voters to pick Hanks.
Odey is the more moderate
opponent for Bennett,
and statewide it's the green areas that
chose O'Day yellow are the counties that
went for Ron Hanks for Secretary of State.
It's more defined to the salmon
color for Pam Anderson because
voters rejected chaos in this race.
Republican Pam Anderson will face
Democrat Jenna Griswold in November.
Anderson won the primary.
Over Mike O'Donnell and right now you
see there in 3rd Mesa County clerk Tina
Peters Peters is facing felony charges,
accused of tampering with her
county's election equipment.
She's not even allowed to run
Mesa County's elections this year.
No surprise here.
Peters campaign is claiming without
evidence that the results of
today's election are fraudulent.
Pam Anderson rejects the election
rigging conspiracies amplified
by Peters and is vocal about our
election system being secure.
Anderson,
a former Jefferson County clerk,
also previously led the County
Clerks Association.
We can trust our elections in in Colorado,
but our work is never done and we're
not gonna use hyperpartisan rhetoric
to inflate anyone's political profile.
This is about Colorado and the
voters and restoring trust.
And just quickly want to point
out that Anderson beats Peters in
her home county of Mesa County.
Democratic Governor Jared Polis
will face Republican Heidi
Ganahl in the November election.
Ginal won out over Greg Lopez.
We're still counting some votes,
but it's definite there.
Lopez had finished third in the
gubernatorial primary four years ago.
Genal is the last Republican to
win statewide office in Colorado.
She won a seat on the CU Board of
Regents in 2016 compared to Lopez,
Canal represents the Republican
establishment.
Though she has also flirted with
the big Lie when she launched
her campaign in September,
I asked if she believed there
was fraud in the 2020 election.
She called those questions divisive
in a future campaign stop.
After that,
she told supporters she had to
win by such a big margin that
results cannot be fixed.
She has not talked directly with Nine
News since I interviewed her in September.
I just want to show you the results.
This is the yellow is are the
counties that can all one and
these are the metro area counties
that gave her a big bump Lopez.
Are the red counties Douglas County?
I just wanted to point out because
they both lived there hiding in all
160 to 40 in Douglas County but
statewide right now she's won 53 to 47.
As I said,
she has not talked with Nine News
until tonight and since September
until tonight when a 9 news reporter
Kelly Ranke got ahold of hiding.
And all because she's at the canal
party in Douglas County, Kelly.
Yeah, I hit Marshall and we also
asked her about the 2020 election
results and again tonight.
She didn't give us a
definitive answer on that.
A very different atmosphere at the
gala party than the Tina Peters party.
After the AP had called the
Secretary of State Race,
I asked Tina Peters campaign
if she would talk.
That interview request was rejected
and someone on her campaign called
the AP Decision quote out of whack,
Heidi Ganahl was greeted by a loud round
of applause from her supporters and
she called herself a mom on a mission,
according to Ganahl.
Kids are worse off now
because of the decisions.
Democratic Governor Jared Polis
made during the pandemic.
She said she also wants to focus
on combating the rise of fentanyl
distribution and death when one
chamber in the state legislature
will be held by Democrats and may
be difficult for her to do what
she wants as a Republican governor.
But here's what she had to say on that.
I believe we have a chance to take
back both sides of the legislature
and the Attorney General's Office
and Secretary of State's office
and the Treasurer's office.
I think it's going to be a big
year for Republicans in Colorado,
as evidenced by tonight,
and I truly believe that we have
the best ideas to take us back.
We've dropped from #11 to #29
and business friendly states.
How are we going to get back to
being the land of opportunity?
Ganal is celebrating tonight,
and so is her campaign.
But they said their work continues
tomorrow because Democrats have
pumped so much money into ads,
boosting her opponent Greg Lopez.
During this campaign.
The general campaign believes
that Governor Jared Polis is
nervous to go up against her
during the general election.
Marshall
Kelly. Maybe I've been doing this too long.
I keep hearing the what, but not the how
and and that's what I'm still lacking in,
especially in that answer.
Like how will you do the things that
you want to do and we're gonna have to
get some specifics at some point, right?
Yeah, and I think people were curious
about how she was going to do that.
People were following up on questions.
OK, so how are you going to
bring Democrats to the table?
And again, I don't think we got as
much specifics as we were hoping for,
but I think this is really going to be
an opportunity to bring those specifics
now that she is the Republican nominee.
I think that's something she's
going to have to start doing outside
of a public health emergency.
The powers of the governor are limited.
You need bills from the legislature
to make it to your desk,
and if one of the chambers which
the house will be Democrat,
it's going to be tough for her.
If she were governor.
To get the kind of illicit
she wants to sign anyway,
thank you Kelly.
Barb Kirchmeyer will be facing
off against State Representative
Yadira Caraveo for Congressional
District 8 Kirk Meyer won against
Jan Coleman Laurie Sane and at
the bottom there Tyler Alcorn,
who didn't even live in Congressional
District 8 and wouldn't move
there unless he did win.
This is the state's newest
Congressional District.
It's the most diverse district
that covers Adams and Weld County.
40% of voters in this new
district are Hispanic.
And then for those of you wondering,
Republican Representative
Lauren Bober took a big step
toward her second term tonight.
She easily beat her primary challenger,
state Senator Don Coram,
in Colorado's third Congressional District.
Our Nine News,
political experts are chomping at
the bit to talk with us about what
these results could mean for Colorado.
We're going to check in with our
Republican political expert Kelly Maher
and Democratic expert James Mejia.
That's coming up at 9:30.
Just stay there for the next 25 minutes.
We have a voters guide on our website
and an interactive tool where you
can track the results yourself.
Text the word election to
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everything you need to know tonight.