IN-DEPTH: In Blue Colorado, GOP Makes ‘Unprecedented Deal’ With Libertarians to Break Stronghold

COLORADO SPRINGS—In the November 2022 election, Colorado Democrats gained a historic majority in the state House, a supermajority in the Senate, and retained the governorship—neither a red wave nor a red trickle was felt.
Still, the margins were razor-thin in several elections. For example, in the Congressional House race for Colorado’s newly-formed 8th district, Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, a Republican, lost to Rep. Yadira Caraveo, a Democrat, by 1,632 votes. Richard Ward, the Libertarian candidate, received 9,280 votes.
“There were about a handful of elections that I can think of in 2022 that were decided by the slimmest of margins, and they included a Libertarian candidate, or at least some other third-party candidate on there, and swung it for the Democrats,” former state representative and current Colorado GOP State Party Chairman Dave Williams, told The Epoch Times. The GOP elected Williams in March….}