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[Coventina]

A Trump Veto Leaves Republicans in Colorado Parched and Bewildered

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“I can’t believe he would do that to us,” said Shirley Adams, the Republican mayor of the tiny farming town of Manzanola, whose groundwater is tainted by naturally occurring uranium. She said she voted for Mr. Trump and still supported him, but felt stung by the veto.

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But if Colorado Democrats are hoping for widespread Republican defections, they will almost certainly be disappointed. Many Republican voters in the area who disagreed with the veto said they were past second-guessing their support for Mr. Trump.

Toni Hughes, a cattle rancher who was getting highlights one recent morning at a salon in Manzanola, said she held her tongue last year when other ranchers criticized Mr. Trump over his move to import more beef from Argentina. She said she would give him the benefit of the doubt on the veto.

“I don’t understand why” he killed the bill, she said, but “I guarantee you he’s done it for a reason.”

At the far eastern end of the pipeline’s planned route, some conservatives even embraced Mr. Trump’s veto.

Dave Esgar, a fifth-generation resident of the tiny ranching town of Wiley, 100 miles east of Pueblo, said the government had already wasted decades and hundreds of millions of dollars on the pipeline, and that it was time to give up on the project.

“It’s a total waste,” he said. “Most of us will be dead by the time it ever gets here.”

The piped water in Wiley exceeds federal limits for radium, so people in town install filtration systems at home or fill bottles at a tap outside the local water provider.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/us/politics/colorado-water-trump-veto.html?

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Trump could murder their family in front of their eyes and they would STILL vote for him.
They are lost.
We need NEW voters, and stop wasting time and money on these dead-enders.