Posted on 07/01/2026 2:30:15 AM PDT by Libloather
Insurgent socialist candidate Melat Kiros defeated longtime Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) Tuesday in Colorado’s 1st District House primary, marking the latest blow to the establishment wing of the Democratic Party.
Kiros came out on top of the incumbent, 49.3% to 43.5%, by the time the Associated Press called the race late Tuesday.
Kiros’s win in the solidly blue district follows a string of victories by socialist and far-left candidates over incumbent and establishment-backed Democrats in New York in June, and it’s expected to tilt the political makeup of the House Democratic caucus even further to the left after the midterm elections.
“Now is not the time to gamble and send somebody with no experience to Washington,” DeGette, a 15-term Democrat, pleaded at a candidate forum last week.
First elected to the House in 1997, DeGette, 68, has represented the Denver area in Congress longer than Kiros, 29, has been alive.
“We need a strong, bold, hardened leader who will hold Trump accountable, and when we win the majority in November, will have real power to move the US to a more just and affordable America … That leader is me,” DeGette argued.
DeGette boasted endorsements from Colorado’s Democratic congressional delegation, the House Progressive Caucus, Planned Parenthood Action Fund and several prominent labor unions.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told reporters Monday that DeGette was “forcefully making her case” for re-election while cautioning, “We’ll see what happens.”
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Hakeem is running a nazi in Maine. Not Trump's problem, Sparky. Incoming food fight between the moderates and socialists. Bring on the riots.
The Democrat Polycrisis accelerates.
Kiros is from ETHIOPIA!!!!! ANOTHER FOREIGN BORN RULING OVER US!!!!
Democrats further destroying God’s Country...just like they did California.
death to america party wins again
CWII fuel.
Those idiots just added more gas to the 🔥!
she also blamed America for 9-11
Thank OBAMA for Democratic Socialists
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Amazing how MSM decorates the new name instead of calling it what it is - ISLAMIC COMMUNISM.
Another win for the DAZI party. What could go wrong?
It only takes a small minority of true, albeit deluded, believers to pull off a revolution. That and the dark money. Soros of course is behind some of these DAZIs.
Jefferies is DSA.
His family are HUGE JEW haters and somehow the Media including NY POST HIDE this well documented fact.
Jefferies is behind the DSA RISE .
Dont be fooled by these false stories Jefferies is concerned.
ITS A SET UP .
Who voted DSA in NY well the Black population
but the DSA comrades in the Lefty media can’t let that fact out.
Getting easier to get radicals winning primaries. Too many people do not vote. It does not even take fraud anymore.
This is terrible for the entire country. It would be one thing, if they’d lose the election November. They’ll easily win and be part of the House. as they gain their numbers, they will affect policy.
There is a reason why the Communist Party of America has endorsed Democrat candidates in every election since that Party was formed. They knew it was a means to an end.
So, in a congressional or mayoral election, an immigrant can be put into office by block voting immigrants in Colorado and New York City. We saw Barack Obama elected by a virtually unanimous vote by African Americans and a minority vote by whites.
As long as the Democrats continue a practice that goes back to Tammany Hall with the Irish and other immigrant groups in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, a white majority will dutifully yield up enough votes to lose.
The cohesion among the race, ethnic, gender and immigrant groups is promoted and maintained by victim mentality. It is financed by NGOs and the likes of George Soros. The Foot Soldiers are in the ranks of the teachers' unions. The philosophical pretensions are the work product of our universities.
The left, if nothing else, has been measurably effective in preventing white majorities from voting their interests out of a brooding sense of guilt pathetically compensating for self-loathing.
DeGette has represented...longer than Kiros has been alive. Time for some youthful blood. Step aside old geezer. You’re a useless eater now.
BUMP
When we win the majority in November, will have real power.
Echos of 1939 in Germany.
The More Things Change, the More They. . . Get Even Worse
In every single case where an old-time Democrat is retiring or is ousted in a primary (and there are numerous examples this year), the replacement will be even more of a hate-filled lunatic than the one it's replacing.
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