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Let's talk about Republicans becoming Democrats in Colorado....

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Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about Republicans becoming Democrats in Colorado....

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Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

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Republicans becoming Democrats in Colorado because a state senator there just did that.

0:15.0

Kevin Priole.

0:17.0

Now, there are a lot of questions about this.

0:20.0

Why did it happen?

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Is it a trend?

0:22.0

We're going to kind of go through all of them

0:25.7

so as far as why he did it I mean the easiest thing to do is look at his stated

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reasons which basically has to do with the denying of election results

0:38.6

and the violent rhetoric.

0:41.6

And apparently that's just become a bridge too far for him.

0:47.0

That's the stated reasons.

0:50.0

Another reason is that he might have realized that you can't win a primary without Trump,

0:59.0

you can't win a general with him.

1:02.0

He might have come to the conclusion that it might be a whole

1:07.1

lot easier to win in Colorado as a conservative Democrat rather than a moderate Republican.

1:15.4

So that may be the angle he's playing.

1:18.4

Now, is he super right wing? No, not really. He's generally been bipartisan and one thing that he explicitly said is that basically there's too much at stake

1:36.4

for the Republicans to be in control and that's a paraphrase but not by much.

1:42.2

He cited climate change denial as one of his reasons for changing as well.

1:51.6

Does that mean that he's in line with the Democratic Party platform?

1:55.0

No, no, no. He is a pro-life, pro-Second Amendment candidate and has been for a long time. I don't see those positions changing

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