Republicans Take Aim at Colorado’s 7th Congressional District Seat

Republicans are targeting Colorado’s 7th Congressional District seat for a GOP takeover.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) announced its targeting CO-7. The NRCC’s job is to win as many seats as possible in November in the effort to attain a Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

CO-7 is an open seat. U.S. Representative Ed Perlmutter (D-CO-07) created the opening when he announced his retirement.

Colorado gained a U.S. House seat after the census and redistricting significantly moved the lines around. The new CO-7 was given a partisan rating of D+6 by Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight and includes parts of the old 2nd, 5th, and 7th districts. Those districts were previously rated D+23, R+21, and D+15 respectively.

The New York Times reported that Nancy Pelosi’s PAC is preparing to spend millions in ads to compete for Colorado’s U.S. House districts.

“In Colorado, the last several elections seemed to turn the districts around Boulder and Denver into a reliable shade of blue. But redistricting and the retirement of Representative Ed Perlmutter have prompted House Majority PAC to pony up $4.4 million in the Denver media market to defend the state’s seventh and eighth districts.”

In response to that report, NRCC Spokeswoman Courtney Parella said, “There’s bipartisan agreement: Colorado is a top House battleground. Voters are fed up with Democrats’ harmful policies that caused an inflation crisis, a massive crimewave, and an unmitigated crisis at our southern border.”… (Excerpt from the Virginia Star)