{"id":794362,"date":"2019-03-31T10:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=363808"},"modified":"2019-03-31T10:49:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T16:49:24","slug":"ken-buck-wins-colorado-gop-chairman-race-and-endorses-recall-elections-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/ken-buck-wins-colorado-gop-chairman-race-and-endorses-recall-elections-for-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Buck wins Colorado GOP chairman race and endorses recall elections for Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/IMG_8736-e1553980851442-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/IMG_8736-e1553980851442-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/IMG_8736-e1553980851442-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/IMG_8736-e1553980851442-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/IMG_8736-e1553980851442.jpg 1216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ENGLEWOOD<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 The newly elected chairman of the Republican Party in Colorado endorsed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2019\/03\/25\/the-alarm-over-democratic-agenda-grows-and-now-the-threat-of-recall-elections-looms\/\">recall efforts against Democrats<\/a>&nbsp;in a strident speech in which he vowed to \u201clet the world know this is not a blue state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Ken Buck won the four-way contest to lead the party after three dramatic deadlocked votes that mostly favored rival state Rep. Susan Beckman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But then a third candidate withdrew her candidacy ahead of the fourth ballot and endorsed Buck, giving him a narrow 51 percent victory.<\/p>\n<p>In his address to party officials and activists, Buck said the 2020 campaign to reelect President Donald Trump is the contrast of &nbsp;\u201cfreedom-loving Republicans versus socialist corrupt Democrats.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported news organization dedicated to covering the people, places and policies that matter in Colorado. Read more, sign up for free newsletters and subscribe at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradosun.com\/\"><em>coloradosun.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/ken-buck-wins-colorado-gop-chairman-race-and-endorses-recall-elections-for-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLEWOOD&nbsp;\u2014 The newly elected chairman of the Republican Party in Colorado endorsed&nbsp;recall efforts against Democrats&nbsp;in a strident speech in which he vowed to \u201clet the world know this is not a blue state.\u201d U.S. Rep. Ken Buck won the four-way contest to lead the party after three dramatic deadlocked votes that mostly favored rival state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 06:18:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}