FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, August 12, 2024
CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected]

DENVER: Responding to former President Donald Trump’s attacks on Colorado’s gold-star election system over the weekend, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest multi-issue progressive advocacy organization, condemned Trump’s baseless lies and called on Colorado Republicans at every level to defend our state’s tested and proven election system.

“After swinging through Aspen on Saturday to collect millions of dollars from out-of-state billionaires, Donald Trump added insult to injury by making outrageous excuses for why he is set to lose Colorado in November,” said ProgressNow Colorado executive director Sara Loflin. “Just as we saw in 2020, Trump is already laying the groundwork for more baseless claims that the election was stolen months before voting begins. But in Colorado, where voters have learned to love the convenience and security of mail ballots, Trump’s lies about not just our elections but American democracy as a whole fall apart.”

“Colorado’s gold-standard election system is the product of years of bipartisan agreement and common sense,” said Loflin. “The first election in Colorado utilizing mail ballots was overseen by a Republican Secretary of State, and the system has given Colorado one of the highest consistent rates of voter participation in the nation. Every Colorado Republican who has been elected to office since 2013 knows our election system works. Unfortunately, there is a disconnect between the lies about Colorado’s elections told by Trump and Colorado Republicans who know better. That’s why we’re calling on Gabe Evans, Jeff Hurd, Jeff Crank, Lauren Boebert, and every other Colorado Republican to reject Trump’s lies and publicly demand that Trump stop misrepresenting Colorado’s gold-standard election system.”

“How can Colorado Republicans stand with Trump while he implies their own elections are illegitimate?” asked Loflin.

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