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Drew Savicki 🦖🦕🦖

21 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read

In this week's newsletter, I look at Colorado's 6th District. First up, here's 2016. Both Hillary Clinton and Senator Michael Bennet won the district but voters reelected moderate GOP Rep. Mike Coffman.
infinitemonkeys.substack.com/p/colorado-6-l…

Flash forward four years later and the district's leftward march continues. Biden, Hickenklooper, and Crow each won by double digits here.

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Coffman had the ideal profile for this district. He was a longtime state legislator, army and marine veteran, former state treasurer and secretary of state. Dems finally landed the right candidate against him and poof, his crossover support collapsed

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