5 Things to Know in the Republican Gov Primary With Two Weeks to Go

DENVER - With only two weeks until Election Day and ballots in voters' mailboxes, there are 5 key things Colorado voters need to know about the Republican primary candidates for Governor.

1. Republican candidates for governor hold extreme, far-right views that are nowhere close to what Coloradans want in their next governor. All three candidates are Trump supporters, and hold far-right beliefs on common sense gun safety, reproductive and LGBTQ rights, and election security.

2. Scott Bottoms is a conspiratorial extremist who has spent years spewing hatred in the statehouse, including against LGBTQ and people of color, and said he would put a prominent election-denier in his cabinet as governor. He claims to be investigating extensive child abuse, but literally runs from being held accountable for his words.

3. Both-Ways Barb Kirkmeyer is an out-of-touch career politician who defended Trump's budget bill that gutted Colorado's funding by $1.2 billion and forced Coloradans off of SNAP, kicked thousands off their insurance and raised healthcare costs.

4. Both-Ways Barb wants to be governor but proudly supported a measure for Weld County to secede - even doubling-down on itin a recent debate - and says she "doesn't believe in any exceptions for abortion" and would eliminate Medicaid services for Coloradans in need.

5. MAGA Victor Marx, the best-funded candidate in the race, won't say whether he's killed anyone as an adult.

"The Republicans vying for governor all support Trump and his inflationary agenda, would all ban abortion if they could, and represent fringe conspiracies that Coloradans have rejected time and again," said Kailee Stiles, spokesperson for the Colorado Democratic Party. "While Republicans debate conspiracies, homicide histories, and attempt to out-bizarre one another, Democrats are discussing real ideas and solutions for the next four years. Voters know who is taking the future of our state seriously - and it's not Bottoms, Kirkmeyer or Marx."

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