"Because either they break with the president and they say, No, that is a fantasy. Elections are not rigged. You have to come out and vote because elections are valid, or they buy into the election-rigging fantasy. And Colorado voters have already shown that they are not interested in doing that. And then you'll have Republicans"
"who try to split the difference. The last candidate for governor on the Republican ticket here tried to publicly say, Elections are fine,' and then privately she said, Oh, we really know there's something funny with those elections.' She took a 20-point L. So votersthey saw right through it. They were not buying it. He puts the GOP here in a really tough spot."
Colorado shifted from a swing state to reliably Democratic during the Trump years, complicating Republican strategy there. President Trump repeatedly claimed Colorado elections are rigged, placing local Republicans in a difficult position. Republicans can publicly repudiate the false claims and risk alienating Trump-aligned voters, embrace the claims and lose swing voters, or attempt equivocation and appear insincere. A recent Republican gubernatorial candidate who gave mixed public and private messages lost by twenty points, demonstrating voter rejection of equivocation. Republican figures in Colorado range from open critics of Trump to fierce loyalists, while some candidates remain publicly quiet.
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