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10. Back in the day, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell was elected as a Democrat to the US Senate in Colorado

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 12:42 PM

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and switched his affiliation to Republican the day after the election. It would be silly for Polis to try this party switch stunt as Colorado is now solidly blue and the Republican Party of Campbell has become the RethugliKKKlan party of Orange Julius Caesar in the interim. Polis has always been more Libertarian than liberal. Joe Neguse, who replaced Polis as my representative in the US House, is ten times the liberal Polis ever was.

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