CO-03: Well, the primary we THOUGHT we’d be watching was on the Democratic side, where former state legislator Diane Mitsch Bush, who lost a fairly close contest here in 2018, faced a primary challenge from well-funded businessman James Iacino. Mitsch Bush has a comfortable 61-39 lead thus far, but that isn’t the story.
The story is that incumbent veteran Republican Rep. Scott Tipton is losing his primary at present to far-right restauranteur Lauren Boebert. With 48,000 votes tallied, Boebert leads Tipton by a solid 58-42 margin. Boebert recently made headlines for re-opening her restaurant, Shooters Grill (the staff all open carry, natch), in defiance of COVID-19 protections. In other words, the perfect Republican candidate for 2020.