A state senator is abandoning the Republican Party — and the Jan. 6 attack isn't his only reason for doing so. (via MaddowBlog)
Yesterday, the contingent picked up a new member. The Associated PressCiting alarm toward the Republican Party’s widespread embrace of 2020 election conspiracies, a moderate GOP Colorado state senator has switched his affiliation to Democrat, enhancing that party’s prospects to retain its majority in the chamber in the November midterms. Kevin Priola, who represents Adams County in Denver’s suburbs, said in a letter Monday he was horrified by the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S.
He added, “I cannot continue to be part of a political party that is okay with a violent attempt to overturn a free and fair election and continues to peddle claims that the 2020 election was stolen.” The practical effects in the Rocky Mountain State are clearly meaningful: Colorado Republicans have predicted in recent months that it might be able to flip control of the state Senate from “blue” to “red” in this year’s elections. Priola abandoning the GOP and aligning with Democrats will make that task more difficult.
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