Denver Post Comment Section
- www.denverpost.com Some Republicans distance themselves from Trump’s latest attack on Harris’ mental fitness
Republicans on Sunday sought to distance themselves from Donald Trump’s latest insults of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris during a rambling weekend rally in Wisconsin in which he called her “mentally disabled.”
- www.denverpost.com Colorado polls: Kamala Harris holds big lead over Donald Trump
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris holds a double-digit lead over Republican former President Donald Trump in Colorado, according to polls released this month.
- www.denverpost.com Colorado Springs man sentenced to prison for U.S. Capitol riot involvement
Tyler Earl Ethridge will serve seven months in prison for committing felonies and misdemeanors during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
- www.denverpost.com Harris is making a ‘capitalist’ pitch to boost the economy as Trump pushes deeper into populism – The Denver Post
Derided by Donald Trump as a “communist,” Kamala Harris is playing up her street cred as a capitalist. Attacked by Harris as a rich kid who got $400 million from his father on a “silver platter,” Trump is leaning into his raw populism. The two presidential candidates are set […]
- www.denverpost.com Trump calls for 100% tariffs on cars made in Mexico as part of US manufacturing plan – The Denver Post
Donald Trump is expected on Tuesday to pledge not only to stop U.S. businesses from offshoring jobs, but also to take other countries’ jobs and factories.
- www.denverpost.com Man who staked out Trump at Florida golf course charged with attempting an assassination – The Denver Post
By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who authorities say staked out Donald Trump for 12 hours on his golf course in Florida and wrote of his desire to kill him was indicted Tuesday on an attempted assassination charge. Ryan Wesley Routh had been initially charged with two federal firearms offenses...
- www.denverpost.com Several states are making late changes to election rules, even as voting is set to begin – The Denver Post
By ALI SWENSON In Georgia, election workers will have to hand count the number of ballots cast after voting is completed. In North Carolina, some students and university staff can use their digital IDs to vote. In Wisconsin, ballot drop boxes are newly legal again, although not every voting jurisdic...
- www.denverpost.com Harris owns a gun? Trump wants to cap credit card rates? Party lines blur in campaign’s last stretch – The Denver Post
One presidential candidate is talking up gun ownership and promising tough border security measures. The other vows to cap credit card interest rates and force insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization. Which one is the Democrat and the Republican? The lines that have long defined each par...
- www.denverpost.com FBI finds violent crime declined in 2023. Here’s what to know about the report
Overall violent crime declined an estimated 3% in 2023 from the year before, according to the FBI report Monday. Murders and non-negligent manslaughter dropped nearly 12%.
- www.denverpost.com Trump says, if he loses, 2024 run will be his last – The Denver Post
Former President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he doesn’t “think” he’d run again for president in 2028 if he falls short in his bid to return to the White House in 2024.
- www.denverpost.com Are Trump and Harris particularly Christian? That’s not what most Americans would say: AP-NORC poll – The Denver Post
By HOLLY MEYER, PETER SMITH and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Vice President Kamala Harris is a Baptist who was influenced by religious traditions in her mother’s home country of India. Former President Donald Trump grew up a mainline Presbyterian but began identifying as a nondenominational Christian near...
- www.denverpost.com If Trump comes to Aurora, he should honor our immigrant community
Presidential candidate Donald Trump may visit Aurora in the coming weeks, and we can expect speeches filled with ugly invective and continued falsehoods about our city and its residents.
- www.denverpost.com RTD's threat to boot Greyhound from Union Station is elitist
The Regional Transit District says kicking Greyhound out of Union Station is to protect riders, but I don't want a transit system that's only for some.
- www.denverpost.com Colorado economic forecasts show TABOR refunds impacted by tax credits
Colorado's legislative economic forecasters told the Joint Budget committee that state TABOR tax refunds will be lower as the state's economy softens and new state tax credits kick in.
- www.denverpost.com Independent National Convention draws political activists to Denver
Andrew Yang, Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign alumni came to Denver for the Independent National Convention this week, spotlighting a movement in the 2024 election.
- www.denverpost.com House rejects temporary funding bill to avoid government shutdown – The Denver Post
By KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposal that links the funding of the federal government for the new budget year with a mandate that states require proof of citizenship when people register to vote. Johnson pulled the bill from c...
- www.denverpost.com Opinion: Fact check on Kamala Harris following ABC debate with Trump
Throughout last week's Denver Post, there were several instances of “Trump lied in the debate, but Harris didn’t.” This is simply not the case.
- www.denverpost.com Election 2024 Latest: Trump and Harris campaign for undecided voters with just 6 weeks left – The Denver Post
By The Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris is set to give a speech on Friday focused squarely on abortion rights and she’ll do so in Georgia, where news reports have documented women’s deaths in the face of the state’s six-week ban. Meanwhile, lawmakers are scrambling to ensure that the U....
- www.denverpost.com Secret Service report details communication failures preceding July assassination attempt on Trump – The Denver Post
By REBECCA SANTANA, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER WASHINGTON (AP) — Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement hampered the Secret Service’s performance ahead of a July assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, according to a new report that lays out a litany of missed ...
- www.denverpost.com Georgia State Election Board approves rule requiring hand count of ballots – The Denver Post
By KATE BRUMBACK ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand after voting is completed. The board approved the rule, going against the advice of the state attorney general’s office, the se...
- www.denverpost.com Denver settles protest lawsuits by men injured by police projectiles
The Denver City Council approved $465,000 in settlement payments Monday for two men shot in the head with less-lethal projectiles by police officers during the 2020 George Floyd protests.
- www.denverpost.com Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate – The Denver Post
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and SCOTT BAUER MOSINEE, Wis. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump heads to Wisconsin on Saturday for a rally that’s intended to focus heavily on the economy, marking his first trip to the deep red, largely rural part of the key battleground state. Trump and Vice President Kamala...
- www.denverpost.com American company, Russian propaganda: New Kremlin tactic reveals escalating effort to sway US vote – The Denver Post
By DAVID KLEPPER WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has long sought to inject disinformation into U.S. political discourse. Now, it’s got a new angle: paying Americans to do the work. This week’s indictment of two Russian state media employees on charges that they paid a Tennessee company to create pro-Russia...
- www.denverpost.com January 6 crimes did happen. Court cases, video and thousands of pages of evidence prove it – The Denver Post
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and CAL WOODWARD WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, sha...
- www.denverpost.com Judge delays Donald Trump’s sentencing in hush money case until after November election – The Denver Post
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until after the November election, granting the former president a hard-won reprieve as he navigates the homestretch of his current campaign and the aftermath of his criminal co...
- www.denverpost.com Trump says he’d create a government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk – The Denver Post
By JONATHAN J. COOPER PHOENIX (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday he would create a government efficiency commission to audit the entire federal government, an idea suggested by billionaire Elon Musk, who would lead it. The commission is the latest attention-grabbing alliance between ...
- www.denverpost.com With charges and sanctions, US takes aim at Russian disinformation ahead of November election – The Denver Post
By ERIC TUCKER, DAVID KLEPPER and MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced wide-ranging actions Wednesday meant to call out Russian influence in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, unsealing criminal charges against two employees of a Russian state-run media company and ...
- www.denverpost.com Colorado ballot will have abortion, cat hunting, ranked-choice voting
Colorado voters will weigh in on abortion, mountain lion trophy hunting and a ranked-choice voting elections overhaul in initiatives that have qualified for the state's November ballot.
- www.denverpost.com Federal workers around nation’s capital worry over Trump’s plans to send some of them elsewhere – The Denver Post
BY OLIVIA DIAZ and BRIAN WITTE WASHINGTON (AP) — Worries of being uprooted from their jobs have returned for Laura Dodson and other federal workers, who have long been the economic backbone of the nation’s capital and its suburbs. During former President Donald Trump ‘s administration, her office un...
- www.denverpost.com Casa Bonita reservations open to general public soon
Starting Oct. 1, 2024, Lakewood's Casa Bonita will no longer require guests to buy a pre-paid ticket. Instead, guests will be able to make reservations like they do at any other restaurant.
- www.denverpost.com Trump issues statement from Gold Star families defending Arlington Cemetery visit and ripping Harris – The Denver Post
By BILL BARROW ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign issued a statement Sunday from the Gold Star military families who invited him to Arlington National Cemetery as they defended the Republican presidential nominee and insisted that Vice President Kamala Harris is the candidate politicizing fallen...
- www.denverpost.com Presidential election draws memories of Watergate, Nixon
With the political turmoil of this presidential election, one cannot help but draw parallels to Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon.
- www.denverpost.com ABC’s rules for the Harris-Trump debate include muted mics when candidates aren’t speaking – The Denver Post
By MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVIN NEW YORK (AP) — Next month’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump won’t have an audience, live microphones when candidates aren’t speaking, or written notes, according to rules that ABC News, the host network, shared this week w...
- www.denverpost.com More than 100 rally against racist signs posted in metro-area bus stops
Denver Chief of Police Ron Thomas said a total of seven signs were removed from five bus stops along Colfax in the metro area — three in Denver and two in Aurora.
- www.denverpost.com Trump calls for universal coverage of IVF treatment with no specifics on how his plan would work – The Denver Post
Donald Trump is scheduled to campaign Thursday in Michigan and Wisconsin as the former president ramps up battleground state travel heading into the traditional Labor Day turn toward the fall election. Trump’s intense focus on recapturing states he won in 2016 but lost narrowly in […]
- www.denverpost.com Congress cannot be trusted on divisive social issues. Leave them to the states.
The author argues that Congress is overly focused on divisive social issues and needs to focus on fiscal matters to regain trust and ensure entitlements like Social Security and Medicare are reformed.
- www.denverpost.com Harris and Walz will sit down for first major television interview of their presidential campaign – The Denver Post
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will sit down Thursday for their first major television interview of their presidential campaign as the duo travels in southeast Georgia on a bus tour. The interview with CNN’s Dana Bash will give […]
- www.denverpost.com Trump is visiting swing districts in Michigan and Wisconsin as battleground campaigning ramps up – The Denver Post
Donald Trump is scheduled to campaign Thursday in Michigan and Wisconsin as the former president ramps up battleground state travel heading into the traditional Labor Day turn toward the fall election. Trump’s intense focus on recapturing states he won in 2016 but lost narrowly in […]
- www.denverpost.com Pursuing net-zero buildings -- even in Aspen -- isn't practical or necessary. The grid will be decarbonized.
All you need to build an eventual net zero building is to go all-electric. It won’t be net zero today, but it will be net zero when the grid reaches 100% carbon-free power.
- www.denverpost.com Lowe’s changes some DEI policies amid legal attacks on diversity programs and activist pressure – The Denver Post
By HALELUYA HADERO and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS NEW YORK (AP) — Home improvement chain Lowe’s is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining the ranks of several other companies that altered their programs since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admi...