{"id":421,"date":"2026-06-18T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:06:44","slug":"the-state-that-will-tell-us-whos-winning-the-democratic-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"The state that will tell us who\u2019s winning the Democratic civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>In November 2023, Melat Kiros blew up her career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Major US law firms had signed a letter denouncing antisemitism and \u201ccalls for the elimination of the Israeli state.\u201d Kiros, a 26-year old attorney at one of those firms, publicly posted a rebuttal, in which she condemned bigotry but said the \u201cgeopolitical legitimacy of the Israeli state\u201d should indeed be questioned. Her letter went viral \u2014 and Kiros was swiftly fired.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=419\">Why Trump is sabotaging his own nominee<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Now, less than three years later, Kiros is running for Congress \u2014 challenging Rep. Diana DeGette, a three-decade Democratic incumbent in Colorado, in a primary this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Part of Kiros\u2019s platform is ending all aid to Israel \u2014 \u201cI think it\u2019s the moral question of our time,\u201d she told me this week. And she has an infrastructure of enthusiastic backers, including the Democratic Socialists of America and the streamer Hasan Piker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kiros is one of a few candidates who are testing mainstays of Colorado\u2019s longstanding Democratic establishment \u2014 figures who helped engineer the state\u2019s gradual transformation from red to purple to blue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. John Hickenlooper, who has served almost continuously in major elected offices since 2003, is facing a challenge from state Sen. Julie Gonzales, a staunch progressive with a record of organizing for immigrant causes. Sen. Michael Bennet, in office since 2009, is now running to become governor \u2014 but state Attorney General Phil Weiser is trying to use his Washington years against him, hammering him for voting to confirm some of Trump\u2019s Cabinet picks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe linkage of all three is they\u2019re challenges to the longtime Democratic establishment in Colorado,\u201d Eric Sondermann, a Colorado-based independent political commentator, told me. \u201cAnd particularly in the case of Hickenlooper and DeGette, they are challenges to what\u2019s seen as sort of a gerontocracy within the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>These Colorado contests haven\u2019t made many national headlines. Given the dearth of public polling in the state, it\u2019s difficult to know how close they\u2019ll even end up being, and most insiders still expect Hickenlooper, DeGette, and Bennet to win. (The primary is technically June 30, but Colorado is a predominantly vote-by-mail state, so voting is already in full swing.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But in a recent swing state where Democrats have long taken a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road approach to politics, the challengers are betting that these longstanding leaders have gotten out of touch with their increasingly restless \u2014 and increasingly progressive \u2014 base.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>The House First District primary: Diana DeGette vs. Melat Kiros vs. Wanda James<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. Diana DeGette has held her deep-blue Denver House of Representatives seat for 30 years. She has amassed a mostly progressive record overall \u2014 one recent ad of hers features Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York touting her bonafides. (The clip is from a rally last year; Ocasio-Cortez has not endorsed in the primary.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But from the standpoint of most 2026 Democrats, there is one blemish \u2014 DeGette has long supported Israel, including supporting military aid to them in April 2024, when the conflict in Gaza was months old. (DeGette has since, like most other Democrats, shifted.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Enter Melat Kiros. After her firing from the law firm Sidley Austin in November 2023, she pursued a public policy PhD and worked as a barista. But when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024, she concluded that Democrats \u2014 including her own representative, DeGette \u2014 \u201cwere not going to learn the right lessons.\u201d So she got in the race herself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kiros\u2019s criticism of Israel\u2019s conduct in Gaza, she says, stems from her own family history. \u201cI\u2019m from the northern region of Ethiopia, the Tigray region, where a genocide took place just a few years ago,\u201d she told me. \u201cI lost family in genocide there. I protested what was happening there. No one was threatening to fire me or pull my job offers for it.\u201d But on Israel, she went on, the \u201cdisregard the establishment has for voters and their concern about this issue\u201d is \u201cbecoming blatant.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>When Kiros entered the race, she wasn\u2019t officially a democratic socialist. But when she sought the DSA\u2019s endorsement, she realized her policy ideas (such as Medicare-for-All) fit well with the group. \u201cI\u2019m really honored to have gotten to join the organization since starting the campaign \u2014 they have been critical to the success of our field program and helping us get the word out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The race first garnered national attention in March, when DeGette, shockingly, nearly missed making the ballot. In Colorado, you can qualify for the ballot by either collecting signatures or getting enough support in a nominating caucus \u2014 DeGette tried to caucus route, but barely crossed the 30 percent minimum threshold when activist caucusgoers strongly backed Kiros.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kiros has tried to capitalize on progressive energy, DSA organizing, and Piker\u2019s backing (\u201cFired over Palestine, now running for Congress,\u201d was the title of one Piker video with her).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>However, a complication is that there is a third candidate in the race \u2014 Wanda James, a regent of the University of Colorado. While James doesn\u2019t have the social media buzz of Kiros, she has won some significant endorsements, and argues she can win Black and Latino voters. It\u2019s generally believed to be tougher to beat a longtime incumbent in a three-way race without a runoff, since DeGette could win with a plurality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>And though her district is quite blue, there\u2019s some question about whether it\u2019s ready for DSA-style politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cDenver is run by No Kings moms and grandmas,\u201d Sondermann, the independent political commentator, told me. \u201cThey\u2019re DeGette people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=417\">Trump\u2019s pitch to voters: \u201cI love the inflation\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>The Senate primary: John Hickenlooper vs. Julie Gonzales<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hickenlooper, now 74, is running for just his second term in the Senate. But he\u2019s loomed large in Colorado politics dating back to 2003. He was elected mayor of Denver as a folksy brewpub owner; followed up his two mayoral terms with two terms as governor; and then in 2019 switched from an ill-fated presidential bid to a successful effort to defeat Colorado\u2019s last statewide elected Republican, Sen. Cory Gardner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But according to his challenger \u2014 state Sen. Julie Gonzales \u2014 his \u201cgo-along-to-get-along, poll-tested incrementalist politics\u201d have failed to meet the test of Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gonzales told me in an interview that, weeks after Trump won the 2024 election, Hickenlooper privately met her and two other state legislators who were deeply worried about the prospect of mass deportation. \u201cWe were asking Senator Hickenlooper, <em>Hey, what\u2019s the plan to protect our communities?<\/em> And his response at the time had been, <em>Oh, they\u2019re just going to go after the criminals<\/em> \u2014 basically, trying to quibble with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hickenlooper then voted to confirm 10 of Trump\u2019s Cabinet nominees, and defended Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer when activists argued he hadn\u2019t been doing enough to fight back against Trump. (\u201cHickenlooper has fought Trump\u2019s extreme immigration agenda since Trump\u2019s first day,\u201d a spokesperson for his campaign said in an emailed statement.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gonzales is the daughter of a ranch manager who attended Yale University and, afterward, spent years working as an organizer for progressive causes, especially issues related to immigration. Now 43, she\u2019s held a state senate seat in a Denver district since 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Though she knew others were frustrated with Hickenlooper as well, she doubted her chances in a primary \u2014 until, she says, the surprising mayoral victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York City, as well as progressive candidates in Aurora, Colorado\u2019s city council races, made her think she could win. She jumped in the race in December, and quickly made news when it emerged that a Hickenlooper ally had threatened to blacklist some operatives from party work if they signed on with her campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gonzales, who in 2106 supported Bernie Sanders, has endorsed sweeping policy promises such as Medicare-for-All, universal childcare and eldercare, abolishing ICE, and a wealth tax \u2014 as well as ending aid to Israel. She won the endorsement of the national progressive group Indivisible, which has frequently criticized Schumer\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cTaking on Hick is, to me, the clearest opportunity that we have to send a message directly to Chuck Schumer and the upper echelons of the Democratic establishment,\u201d Gonzales told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But she hasn\u2019t raised very much money or funded a major TV ad campaign \u2014 instead, she\u2019s pinning her hopes on organizing. \u201cShe\u2019s pushing back against this notion that money matters \u2014 it does,\u201d Jesse Paul, a reporter for the Colorado Sun, told me. \u201cEspecially in this race when voters don\u2019t know who she is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Is this race actually close? There was some social media buzz around a recent poll showing Hickenlooper only up 38 to 30 among likely voters \u2014 but the poll was from a progressive group and had limited methodological detail. Colorado insiders I spoke to expect Hickenlooper will cruise to victory, and we\u2019ll soon learn whether they have the finger on the pulse of where their voters are. (As for Republicans, their uncontested nominee, Mark Baisley, is a little-known state senator who has raised no money.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>The governor primary: Michael Bennet vs. Phil Weiser<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rather than a clear \u201cprogressive vs. establishment\u201d race, the open seat governor\u2019s contest \u2014 to succeed Gov. Jared Polis \u2014 pits two established politicians against each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But Bennet does have the longer tenure \u2014 he\u2019s been a US senator for 17 years, and before that was then-Denver Mayor Hickenlooper\u2019s chief of staff and superintendent of Denver Public Schools. His opponent, Weiser, has been state attorney general for eight years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>During his Senate career, Bennet has distinguished himself as a serious policy person \u2014 thrilling progressive wonks by championing the expanded child tax credit as an anti-poverty measure. But he surprised the Colorado establishment by deciding to try and make the leap to the governor\u2019s mansion this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Weiser is trying to capitalize on anti-establishment sentiment by using Bennet\u2019s Washington tenure against him. Like Hickenlooper, Bennet had voted to confirm several of Trump\u2019s Cabinet nominees early last year, arguing at the time that a \u201cblanket approach\u201d of opposition wasn\u2019t \u201cthe smart thing to do strategically.\u201d That was not what the base wanted to hear, so, by December, Bennet\u2019s team was releasing press releases with headlines like \u201cBennet blocks 88 Trump nominees.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Weiser says that the many lawsuits he\u2019s filed or joined against Trump show that he\u2019s the true fighter. Bennet has fired back, arguing that Weiser was much less enthusiastic about suing the administration back during Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Overall, the vibe here is two ambitious guys who both want to be governor each grasping for reasons why their rival shouldn\u2019t. But the question is whether longtime service in Washington will be an asset for Bennet \u2014 or whether the anti-establishment feeling has gotten so intense that it\u2019s more of a liability. With polling again scant, we\u2019ll have to wait until the votes are counted to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=415\">How to pray when you don\u2019t believe in God<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>See More<!-- -->:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Congress<\/li>\n<li>Politics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Diana DeGette and Sen. 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