Colorado Primary Results

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26
PROGRAM #10419 12:00 PM PT

Colorado Primary Results. On the day after the primary elections in Colorado, analysts comment on the results. Voters went to the polls to choose candidates for all eight of Colorado’s U.S. House member seats, all state representatives and half of the state senators’ seats. Latinos are expected to play a key role in deciding congressional races that may reshape Congress in the fall. U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo, a Democrat running for re-election and the first Latina elected to Congress in Colorado, won her seat in 2022 thanks to Latino support and Latinos will be critical again in this race, considered among the most competitive in the country. A state measure enshrining abortion in the state’s constitution was also expected to drive Latino voter turnout. Did higher voter registration translate into larger turnout? What were the top issues driving voters to the polls?

Guests: Gladis Ibarra, Co-Executive Director, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition-CIRC, Denver, CO; Jesús Sánchez Melean, Executive Director, El Comercio de Colorado Newspaper, Denver, CO.

Executive Relief for Immigrants. US Congresswoman Delia Ramirez discusses President Biden’s new executive orders giving legal protections to immigrant spouses of US citizens and DACA recipients. Being the only member of Congress in a “mixed-status” family, Ramirez attended Biden’s ceremony with her husband and gives a deeply personal opinion about the impact of the new benefit.

Guests: US Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Chicago, Washington, DC; Gladis Ibarra, Co-Executive Director, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition-CIRC, Denver, CO.

Photo: Tim Riley via Flickr

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