Majority of GOP Grassroots Voters Back Insurrectionist Ron Hanks
Hanks takes top spot on Republican primary ballot for Senate
Insurrectionist and U.S. Senate candidate Ron Hanks cleared a field of several well funded candidates and won with 38.96% of the delegate vote. Election denial was at the center of the Colorado GOP’s chaotic state assembly where Hanks, along with other election conspiracy theory candidates, rode that wave to victory.
Hanks and wealthy CEO Joe O’Dea, who petitioned on to the ballot via signatures, will be the only two Republican candidates for Senate. The primary will take place on June 28th.
Watch CBS Denver’s reporting on the GOP state assembly below:
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What They’re Saying:
Jesse Paul, Colorado Sun: “The thread that carried across the 2022 Colorado Republican state assembly was election denialism, from calls to abandon electronic voting for delegates, to the candidates selected and the party platform that was adopted. #copolitics”
Nick Riccardi, AP: “Skepticism about the election/’election integrity’ has been the biggest applause line for just about everyone at the CO GOP Assembly”
Quentin Young, Colorado Newsline: “Now there is no doubt. The election-denial faction of the Colorado Republican Party has the most momentum. Conspiracist candidates are in the lead. Moderating forces in the party establishment have lost control of the narrative. What does this mean for the state?”
Trish Zornio, Colorado Sun Columnist: The @cologop is in complete shambles. Their “best” candidates for Secretary of State, U.S. Senate and Gov are extreme conspiracy theorists who deny 2020 election results. It’s embarrassing, and bad for democracy.
Heidi Beedle, Colorado Times Recorder: “I’m not at all surprised that Ron Hanks won. This has largely been a one-issue primary for the Republicans. Ron Hanks has been leading the charge on that in Colorado. The fact that it is overwhelmingly nonsense from grifters and bad actors shouldn’t be concerning, right?”
Sara Loflin, Progress Now Colorado: “‘Colorado Republicans are once again indisputably the party of Donald Trump, Ron Hanks, and Tina Peters. Hanks and Peters can no longer be dismissed as ‘fringe’ when they represent the views of a majority of Republicans’”
MORE: Read what Coloradans are saying about Hanks in letters to the editor in Mountain Jackpot, CS Indy, Longmont Times Call, and the Greeley Tribune.