The most important relationship to watch in Colorado over the next four months is House Speaker Crisanta Duran and Senate President Kevin Grantham. The pair has a lot they could fight over and little in common except an outsized influence over the lives of nearly 5.4 million Coloradans.
President Barack Obama's former senior policy adviser, David Axelrod, warned against the dangers of presidential candidate Donald Trump's rhetoric in feeding an ugly nationalist undercurrent in America on Tuesday night as a speaker in the Sondermann Presidential Symposium at Colorado College. "We have seen the emergence of a Republican candidate in Donald Trump who has exploited fear and resentment and anger to become the Republican nominee," Axelrod said to a large crowd in the Kathryn Mohrman Theatre at a free event.