Happy 2020 Presidential Candidates In Colorado week, everyone. Evidently most of the major campaigns had the same brilliant idea: Colorado, in its second week of mail voting, makes for a nice break from campaigning in Nevada, where they’ve been in advance of Saturday’s caucus there.
In the last few days, Bernie Sanders addressed 11,000 rabid supporters at the Convention Center — I covered that one, and my ears are still ringing — and Joe Biden spoke to a couple hundred people, including The Post’s Jon Murray, at a private Denver fundraiser.
Tulsi Gabbard swung through yesterday and today, and tonight President Donald Trump is in Colorado Springs, and Amy Klobuchar is in Aurora. Check back here often for updates from the Trump rally.
Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren will both be in town over the weekend.
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg isn’t here this week after a visit earlier this month, but the tendrils of his big-money campaign have stretched all around the state. We ran a story this week on his unprecedented spending and what it could mean for his chances in Colorado.
As a reminder, you’ve got until March 3 to register and vote in the presidential primary. Caucuses kick off a few days later for other races — their format is extremely confusing, but Saja Hindi explains it all here.
In today’s Spot, we’ve got updates from Justin Wingerter on the U.S. Senate race, and Jon checks in on Crisanta Duran, the former Colorado House speaker who has gone beyond endorsing Bloomberg.
Conrad Swanson writes about Denver’s dispute with AirBnB, and Saja writes on a fight over data collection at the statehouse.
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Top Line
It has become something of an annual tradition for Colorado state lawmakers to consider and then kill a lock-the-clocks bill. This ritual played out again this week, but for those of you who want to see daylight saving time abolished, there’s still real reason for optimism.
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