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US Midterms: Colorado Governor

Is Phil Weiser the proven fighter Colorado needs or is Victor Marx the outsider ready to course correct the state?
US Midterms: Colorado Governor
Above: Stock photo of the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver. Image credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post/Getty Images

The Spin


Democratic narrative

Weiser provides Colorado voters with something special — a candidate who has actually stood up to Trump, beating him in court more than 30 times. As attorney general, Weiser crisscrossed all 64 counties, returned over $500 million to consumers, secured nearly $900 million in opioid settlements and blocked federal overreach on voting rights, public lands and immigrant families. He knows the Colorado government from the inside out. His platform of attainable housing, a cradle-to-career pipeline and protection of Colorado's freedoms is a plan from someone who has spent eight years delivering results, not just rhetoric.

Republican narrative

Marx is the kind of candidate the political system rarely produces. He's a Marine veteran, humanitarian and outsider who spent decades on the front lines rescuing the vulnerable, not climbing the ladder. After nearly two decades of one-party rule, Colorado is less affordable, less safe and increasingly hostile to the families and small businesses that built it. Marx represents the course correction the state has been waiting for: someone unbeholden to the consultants, lobbyists and career politicians who created these problems. He has a vision to restore public safety, cut regulations, unleash Colorado's economy and make government serve the people again.



The Controversies


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