Colorado largely rejected candidates they associated with the Washington establishment.

In Colorado's deep blue first district, 29-year-old Malat Kiroz, a former lawyer-turned-verista

and Ph.D. student backed by the Democratic Socialist of America, unseated 15-term incumbent,

Deanna DeGette. In the governor's race, state attorney general Phil

Weiser defeated Senator Michael Bennett in a race that Bennett was won at one point,

leading by 30 points, folks, in the polls. Senator John Hickenlooper, however, survived his own

challenge from progressive state Senator Julie Gonzalez by moving to the left and drastically

outspending Gonzalez.

A moment when you said to yourself, screw it, I'm going to run for Congress.

It was actually after Donald Trump won the presidency a second time.

My first instinct wasn't to run myself.

It was that we would need to run somebody. I

sincerely believe that money in politics is the greatest thing that's preventing us from

passing things like Medicare for all and universal child care and seeing that the congresswoman

had been taking millions of dollars from a lot of these different industries was a sticking

point for me. And so I asked around to see if there was anybody in our state house and in our

city council that would be interested in running. And I didn't hear that anybody would. And I think

competitive primaries are so important, especially in moments of crisis like this right now for our

economy and our democracy. And I decided to run.

Concerned that Trump is going to use this power to interfere with the midterms. Do you share that fear?

Thousand percent.

Like, as I asked it, I'm like, I know that alms on the question.

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