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Former Republican U.S. Rep. Ken Buck resigned from Congress frustrated by a flank of the GOP's unwavering devotion to former President Donald Trump. Now he will likely be replaced by one of their most boisterous leaders, Rep. Lauren Boebert.
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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert faces her first election in a Republican primary since she fled a tough reelection bid in Colorado and ran in a more favorably red congressional district across the state.
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Sandra Fish, a veteran reporter with The Colorado Sun, was kicked out of the Republican Party’s state assembly in Pueblo recently. Fish was given a press pass when she entered the event but was later escorted out by a sheriff’s deputy. State GOP party chair Dave Williams said Fish was kicked out because he believes her reporting is "unfair." The Colorado Sun editor Larry Ryckman joined KUNC's Michael Lyle Jr. to discuss the aftermath of this story.
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Politicians and news outlets have expressed outrage over the expulsion of a Colorado politics reporter from a Republican gathering over the weekend. Sandra Fish, a reporter for the Colorado Sun, was told Saturday that the state party chairman believed her reporting was "very unfair."
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Republican Rep. Ken Buck has announced that he'll resign next week, narrowing his party's razor-thin House majority and scrambling the already heated GOP primary to fill his Colorado seat. Buck is a staunch conservative who already declined to run for reelection as he became increasingly critical of his party's handling of former President Donald Trump.
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Republican US Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado won't seek reelection, citing party's 'insidious narratives'U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a conservative Republican who represents much of Colorado's rural eastern plains, says he won't seek a sixth term in Congress. The 64-year-old former prosecutor on Wednesday cited many in his party who refuse to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election and to condemn the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He was one of the eight Republicans who joined with Democrats to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in early October.
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A surprise effort by hard-right House Republicans to impeach President Joe Biden has been sidelined for now. But the ability of GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert to force the issue demonstrates the challenge Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces in controlling his own Republican majority.
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The Colorado Republican Party has selected a combative former state representative who promised to be a “wartime” leader as its new chairman.
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A Republican lawmaker in Colorado was reprimanded Thursday after calling a colleague “Buckwheat” during debate on legislation — a racist term that provoked outcry from Democrats at a time when America is confronting its history of discrimination.
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Several candidates supportive of the fringe conspiracy theory, including Colorado's Lauren Boebert, have won Republican primaries for congressional seats.