How Bad Immigration Policy Made One Colorado Democrat Into A Trump Voter
Never forget that all of politics is local
“Dems' favorability among Colorado voters fell to 39% in March from 52% last November, while unfavorability jumped to 56% from 45%,” Axios reported in April. “That's a pretty incredible reversal, and it's driven almost entirely by [Kamala] Harris voters, including both Democrats and unaffiliated who supported Harris,” Democratic consultant Kevin Ingham said.
Ingham tells Democrats that their base is disappointed, that voters believe the party should just “try harder” to stop Trump. But Harris underperformed by more than a percentage point in 2024 compared to Biden in 2020, so not all of the disappointment with Democrats can be pegged to oppositional partisanship. On the contrary, GB News has a new documentary in which they talk to Colorado residents who explain how the Democrats lost them.
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