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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Jun 23, 2022, 09:43 PM Jun 2022

In Boebert's District, as Elsewhere, Democrats Surge into GOP Primary

BASALT, Colo. — Claudia Cunningham had never voted for a Republican in her life. She swore she couldn’t or her father would roll over in his grave. But ahead of the Colorado primary on Tuesday, she did the once-unthinkable: registered as unaffiliated so that she could vote in the GOP primary against her congresswoman, Lauren Boebert.

So did Ward Hauenstein, the mayor pro tem of Aspen; Sara Sanderman, a teacher from Glenwood Springs; Christopher Arndt, a writer and financier in Telluride; Gayle Frazzetta, a primary care doctor in Montrose; and Karen Zink, a nurse practitioner south of Durango.

Driven by fears of extremism and worries about what they see as an authoritarianism embodied in Boebert, thousands of Democrats in the sprawling 3rd Congressional District of Colorado have rushed to shore up her Republican challenger, state Sen. Don Coram. Their aim is not to do what best for Democrats but what they think is best for democracy.

It is a long shot: Coram has raised about $226,000 in a late-starting, largely invisible bid to oust a national figure who has raked in $5 million.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/boeberts-district-elsewhere-democrats-surge-182621266.html

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In Boebert's District, as Elsewhere, Democrats Surge into GOP Primary (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 OP
They should meet and decide who will run and not draw votes from each other tirebiter Jun 2022 #1
So did bluedigger. bluedigger Jun 2022 #2

tirebiter

(2,535 posts)
1. They should meet and decide who will run and not draw votes from each other
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 10:02 PM
Jun 2022

There are only so many votes to go around.

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