Diana DeGette

Hello.

So back in June, political newcomer Melat Kiros defeated longtime Congresswoman Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary.

She now faces a Republican opponent and an independent.

Does it look like she's at any risk of not winning the seat?

I'm Bree Davies, and here's what Denver's talking about.

Today, we're looking at the big races across the state, from Congressional District 1's fight over the seat once held by Diana DeGette for decades, to the money flowing in for the challenger to Lauren Boebert's Congressional District 4 seat, and so much more.

Oh, and just a note, this episode contains some explicit language.

Democratic strategist and co-host of the Get More Smarter podcast, Ian Silverii, welcome back to CityCast Denver.

Because, you know, I grew up in Colorado.

I've lived here all my life.

And Diana DeGette has just always kind of been a, like, known stalwart.

And so the thing I've told Ian and that I tell all of my Democrat friends is...

And it's really to hide the fact that these candidates, these members of Congress, are getting money from AIPAC.

Adriano Espaillat did the same thing, as did Diana DeGette, against both Darlisa Villachivalie and Melak Kiros, and they fucking lost.

Yeah.

So I think, you know, what we are seeing is once again, the cavalry trying to come in and save someone who already got second place in the primary against my bang and is also funneling $7 million of her own wealth into this campaign because she has made not only $34 million off inside stock trading, but has also made about a billion dollars off the fact that her husband just sold his very large energy company to BlackRock.

I'm not even going to use that last term because they're not part of America.

And so these Democratic, I mean, can you believe that Diana DeGette got knocked out by somebody more leftist than her? It's insane.

So if we can get those people to get up off their chair, get up out of the couch and go out and vote right now today, get up and go vote.

We can save Colorado.

I think that my voters are concerned about socialism.

I mean, especially with Mila Kiros, who just defeated Diana DeGette in Denver.

That is something that I hear every single day.

Even as frustrated as voters may be with Republicans, they are worried about businesses.

But our 1230 guest, Dr. Shimon Blau, we had him on before he made the ballot.

When Democrat socialist Milak Kiros won the nomination from the Democratic Party in the first congressional district, beating out reliable lefty Diana DeGette, who'd been in office like 180 years.

Shimon Blau, who is Jewish, was so appalled at the thought of an anti-Semite.

And I don't care what Milat Kiros, how she tries to spin it.

And I think that to me really was exhibit A of being, you know, Phil Weiser was a statewide elected official on the ground in Colorado versus Michael Bennett being in the U.S. Senate.

And there's been other examples too of Diana DeGette in Colorado and other longtime incumbents losing their seats.

We have a New Deal leader actually who beat an incumbent in Connecticut, Luke Bronin.

So I do think that there's kind of an anti- Washington thing happening out around the country right now.