Posted on 02/26/2014 1:53:07 PM PST by amnestynone
Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner plans to enter the Republican Senate primary to take on freshman Sen. Mark Udall, three sources told POLITICO Wednesday.
Gardner had rebuffed multiple overtures from national Republicans over the past year, but recruitment efforts continued into this week as the GOP strained to find a viable challenger to Udall, who polls have shown is vulnerable. News of Gardner’s move was first reported by The Denver Post.
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It remains to be seen whether the state GOP and national conservatives will rally around Gardner.
Reached by phone, Colorado Republican Party Chairman Ryan Call praised Gardner as an up-and-comer within the party. While he stopped short of confirming or endorsing a statewide campaign by Gardner, Call praised the second-term congressman.
“He’s a real rising star within our party. He’s been doing a fantastic job in the U.S. Congress,” Call said. “Whatever he decides to do in politics, I’m sure will inure to the benefit of the people of our state.”
In addition to giving Republicans a stronger recruit for the Senate race, Gardner’s expected entry raises the stakes for one of the big-picture strategic questions of the 2014 cycle: Whether sitting members of the unpopular U.S. House of Representatives make good Senate candidates.
Republicans already appear set to nominate members of Congress for Senate races in Montana, Arkansas and Louisiana, while Democrats are putting forward members of the House in Michigan and Iowa.
“Gardner’s staff needs to get back to work. It took me three pages of the Google search engine to find his website.”
I googled:
Cory Gardner
and the third link was his official house page and 6th link was his personal campaign site.
Google seems to be no longer giving objective results, but seems to be keeping a record of what it thinks a person wants to see which greatly affects its search results
This is excellent news and the one thing Colorado Democrats feared most. Gardner needs to step up the fundraising, but I don’t expect that to be a problem.
In further Colorado news, Udall tried to intimidate a government official into lying about the number of Colorado citizens who couldn’t get insurance after applying for Obamacare. The negative ad pretty much writes itself.
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