Four Battle to Win New Colorado Congressional District GOP Primary
A state senator, a mayor, a county commissioner, and a former Green Beret combat veteran who works in the oil patch are vying for the Republican party’s nod in the June 28 GOP primary in Colorado’s newly created Congressional District 8 (CD 8).
One of seven new U.S. House districts created nationwide following post-2020 Census redistricting, CD 8 is the first new district established in Colorado since the 2000 Census and reflects population growth east of I-25 north of Denver.
According to the Colorado Secretary of State Office, there are 115,404 registered Democrats, 102,922 registered Republicans, and 190,925 registered voters unaffiliated with any party in CD 8.
Despite a 3 percent advantage in active registered voters, the number of independent voters makes the district “competitive,” according to FiveThirtyEight. The Cook Partisan Voting Index rates CD 7 also as “competitive” with November’s election forecast a “tossup.”
State Rep. Yadira Caraveo will be the Democratic nominee. A pediatrician, she is running unopposed in the Democratic primary and figures to pose a stiff challenge for the GOP primary winner in the new district, which features the largest concentration of Hispanic residents, at 38 percent, of any Colorado congressional district.
Like their GOP counterparts in preliminary races nationwide, the three elected officials and political newcomers in the CD 8 Republican primary tout similar conservative “America First” agendas that address border security, election integrity, gun-owners rights, school choice, parents’ rights, restricting abortion, support for law enforcement, and the reversal of Democratic energy policies.
Energy development and regulation are particularly relevant issues because many of northeast Colorado’s oil and gas workers live in the district.
Tyler Allcorn of Westminster says his background in the oil and gas industry gives him a hands-on perspective on how to sustain the area’s most dynamic economic asset.
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