Election 2016

Trump calls for term limits for members of Congress, rails against press at Colorado Springs rally

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Donald Trump served up a proposal to offer a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress in the first of two campaign stops planned in Colorado Tuesday.

He offered no details in Colorado Springs on his plans to institute term limits should he become president, and also said he’d put in place five-year bans on lobbying by members of Congress and their staff, among other bans he suggested dealing with the lobbying of and by both domestic and foreign governments. Continue reading

WATCH: Donald Trump campaigning in Colorado Springs, Grand Junction Tuesday

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – As the presidential campaign reaches fever pitch in its final three weeks, Donald Trump is again campaigning in Colorado Tuesday.

Trump’s speeches will begin at 1 p.m. in Colorado Springs at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. in Grand Junction.

WATCH | See Trump’s speeches in the live player below, or click here to stream. 

His campaign has dumped resources into Colorado in recent weeks despite the most recent polls showing him way behind opponent Hillary Clinton in both two-way and four-way races.

Donald Trump Jr. campaigned in Boulder and Centennial Monday, and the elder Trump’s two stops Tuesday will make five total so far just this month.

The Clinton campaign has also been back to Colorado in recent weeks, as Clinton visited Pueblo last Wednesday and her vice presidential pick, Tim Kaine, campaigned with musician Dave Matthews in Aurora two days earlier.

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, two of the progressives campaigning

Trump will speak at the Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs at 1 p.m. Doors to the event open at 10 a.m. The Grand Junction rally will be held at West Star Aviation at 3 p.m. Doors to that event open at noon.

The Quinnipiac Poll released Monday showed Trump down 8 percentage points in a four-way race and down 11 to Clinton in a two-way race.

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Data, report show the rarity of voter fraud in U.S. elections

DENVER – As Donald Trump continues to push unfounded claims of election rigging and voter fraud during the upcoming election, it’s important to note that a miniscule amount of confirmed voter fraud has occurred in the U.S. over the past several general elections.

In 2014, the Washington Post and Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt looked into every general election from 2000 to 2014 and found only 31 possible incidents of in-person voter fraud that affected around 241 ballots. Continue reading

Quinnipiac Poll shows Clinton made major inroads with independents in last month, has large CO lead

DENVER – New poll numbers released Monday show Hillary Clinton has jumped out ahead of Republican challenger Donald Trump in Colorado three weeks before Election Day.

The latest Quinnipiac Poll, which was conducted Oct. 10-16 and sampled 685 likely voters (with a 3.7 margin of error), shows Clinton leading Trump 45-37 in a four-way race. Libertarian Gary Johnson drew 10 percent in the poll, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein drew 3 percent.

In comparison, the previous Quinnipiac Poll, conducted Sept. 13-21, had Clinton leading with 44 percent. Trump (42 percent) was close behind, followed by Johnson (10 percent) and Stein (2 percent).

But when one looks at the two-way race numbers, Clinton’s lead widens.

She leads Trump by 11 percent in the newest Quinnipiac two-way poll, 51-40 percent; the two were tied at 47 percent in the Sept. 13-21 Quinnipiac two-way.

Clinton’s camp appears to also have made extensive headway with independent voters in the past month, as the poll shows 38 percent of independents are likely to vote for her, compared to 34 percent who say they’re likely to vote for Trump.

The Sept. 13-21 poll showed Trump leading likely independent voters with 42 percent, compared to Clinton’s 33 percent.

Though Trump and his surrogates have campaigned extensively in Colorado over the past month, polls, which Trump and others have often discredited based on what they say, have continued to point in favor of Clinton winning the state.

The last poll that had Trump ahead in a two-way race was the Sept. 22-23 Gravis poll, which had Trump +4 among 799 likely voters. The same poll had Trump +4 in a four-way race as well.

But others polls have had Clinton up by as much as 11 percent over the past month, and a Real Clear Politics average of each Colorado poll taken since last November has Clinton up 9 percent in a two-way race and 8 percent in a four-way race.

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Colorado secretary of state, spokeswoman lambaste Trump’s ‘rigged election’ comments

DENVER – The spokeswoman for Colorado’s Republican secretary of state offered a strong rebuttal to Donald Trump’s claims that there is voter fraud occurring in what Trump has called a “rigged” election.

“Donald Trump has been tweeting about elections being rigged, but he offers no evidence of such,” Secretary of State Communications Director Lynn Bartels said in a statement to Denver7. “I can say on Twitter I’m a super model, but that doesn’t make it so.” Continue reading