{"id":2443599,"date":"2019-04-30T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=304962"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:54:38","slug":"colorado-moves-presidential-primaries-to-super-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/colorado-moves-presidential-primaries-to-super-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado moves presidential primaries to Super Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Secretary of State Jena Griswold, right, announce that Colorado is moving its 2020 presidential primaries from June to Super Tuesday on March 3 during a news conference April 30 in Denver. The move adds Colorado to at least 10 states conducting their presidential primaries on March 3, 2020.<\/strong>
AP Photo\/Jim Anderson<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DENVER \u2014 Colorado is moving up its 2020 presidential primaries from June to Super Tuesday in March, hoping to lure major party contenders to the purple state.<\/p>\n

Gov. Jared Polis made the announcement Tuesday, adding Colorado to at least 10 states conducting their presidential primaries on March 3.<\/p>\n

Under voter initiatives approved in 2016, independent voters \u2014 Colorado\u2019s largest voting bloc \u2014 can participate in one or the other of the major party primaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we can really highlight Colorado as a key state because among the Super Tuesday states, Colorado is one of the only ones that is also a competitive state for November \u2014 a purple state,\u201d Polis said.<\/p>\n

Down-ballot races will continue to be held in June.<\/p>\n

Critics of the previous system argued the presidential race was largely decided by the time Colorado held its June primaries.<\/p>\n

The 2016 ballot measure created winner-take-all Colorado presidential primaries in 2020, instead of non-binding caucuses.<\/p>\n

Proponents argued that change would inspire candidates to try to appeal to centrist voters in an increasingly polarized political climate.<\/p>\n

The 2016 caucuses were messy: Democrats struggled to accommodate every voter, and Republicans didn\u2019t choose presidential delegates because the national party insisted the vote be binding. Independent voters were left out in the cold.<\/p>\n

Then-Gov. John Hickenlooper, now a presidential candidate, supported the changes, as did U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who also is expected to formally jump into the Democratic race.<\/p>\n

Colorado held presidential primaries from 1992 to 2000 then dropped them to save money.<\/p>\n

Giants California and Texas headline the list of Super Tuesday states.<\/p>\n

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Secretary of State Jena Griswold, right, announce that Colorado is moving its 2020 presidential primaries from June to Super Tuesday on March 3 during a news conference April 30 in Denver. The move adds Colorado to at least 10 states conducting their presidential primaries on March 3, 2020.AP Photo\/Jim Anderson […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 12:23:42","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}