Romanoff’s campaign released an internal poll Thursday showing him still down 12 percentage points ahead of the June 30 election. He had a progressive record as governor on issues around gun control and immigration, signing universal background checks and bans on high-capacity magazines into law.The popular two-term former governor ― who won reelection in 2014, the same year Republicans had higher turnout than Democrats in Colorado — is seen as a strong candidate against Gardner.
John Hickenlooper has claimed the Democratic nomination for Colorado’s Senate race, beating former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff in a two-way primary Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. This includes directly interviewing sources and research / analysis of primary source documents. All rights reserved.Important conversations are happening now. Member Services News Alerts As a news piece, this article cites verifiable, third-party sources which have all been thoroughly fact-checked and deemed credible by the Newsroom in accordance with the Civil Constitution. Can the Democrats retake the Senate in 2020? Steve Bullock, who is now also running for Senate. Track the 2020 Senate Elections here.
The former governor will face off against incumbent Republican Sen. Cory Gardner this November in what’s expected to be one of the most hotly contested battles of the 2020 election cycle. Romanoff’s campaign released an internal poll Thursday showing him still down 12 percentage points ahead of the June 30 election. He threw his hat into the presidential race last year, thinking his brand of Mountain West pragmatism would find a clear lane in the Democratic primary. The election is June 30. Summary of each race with links to polls and commentary. A 9NEWS/Colorado Politics poll shows that John Hickenlooper maintains a lead over Andrew Romanoff in the Senate Democratic primary. It also anticipates an older and diverse electorate with 61% of those who vote older than 50 and Latino turnout at 19% of the total. U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff attended a Democratic forum in Montrose on Oct. 20, 2019. (William Woody, Special to The Colorado Sun) He has consistently polled ahead of the incumbent Republican, including an But Hickenlooper is not without vulnerabilities. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.John Hickenlooper Wins Colorado Primary In Key Senate RaceThe former governor will face off against Sen. Cory Gardner in Democrats' best chance to gain a Senate seat in the 2020 election.Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapterWe made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote!Part of HuffPost Politics. “The evidence is clear: We’re closing the gap and poised to win.”The campaign declined to release the full results of the poll to The Colorado Sun, but the pollster read all the questions and detailed the methodology in a lengthy interview. Subscribe to Hickenlooper is the favored candidate of national Democrats Romanoff, by comparison, is the lesser-known former state House speaker who left office in 2008 and lost two major races in the last decade. The latest poll in Colorado’s U.S. Senate contest shows a tightening race, with John Hickenlooper ahead of Sen. Cory Gardner by six percentage points. None of them gained any traction.At the time, Hickenlooper was adamant that he didn’t want to be a senator, repeatedly stating that he Still, Colorado is promising for Democrats. The margin of error is 4.4 percentage points.“The bottom line here is that Romanoff has seized the momentum, and he is well positioned to pull off a remarkable upset in this contest,” said veteran Democratic pollster Andrew Myers.Hickenlooper’s campaign issued a statement that highlighted their double-digit lead, saying it reflects the candidate’s “record of bringing people together to deliver big, progressive change to Colorado.”It’s unusual for a candidate to release a poll showing him behind by double-digits, but for Romanoff the new numbers represent a major shift that may give him a fundraising boost and momentum heading into the final 12 days of the election. He In campaign finance numbers released Thursday, Romanoff raised $710,000 from April through June 10 — his best report of the campaign. Hickenlooper’s win on Tuesday was expected, as he was running 30 percentage points ahead of Romanoff in early polls. Support independent, Colorado-owned journalism by joining The Colorado Sun. Instead, Hickenlooper found himself lumped in with similar candidates like Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and former Montana Gov. Two years ago, the party easily held on to the governor’s mansion, electing Jared Polis to succeed Hickenlooper, and flipped both chambers of the state Legislature. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. The live-caller survey asked the head-to-head polling question near the start and before testing negative messages against Hickenlooper later in the survey.The poll is predicated on a primary turnout that is 70% Democrat and 30% unaffiliated, which is roughly on par with the results in the 2018 election. As a news piece, this article cites verifiable, third-party sources which have all been thoroughly fact-checked and deemed credible by the Newsroom in accordance with the Civil Constitution.