GOP Candidates Plagued with Ties to Jan. 6th Insurrection and Election Denial

Candidate and insurrectionist Ron Hanks leads the GOP Senate primary

The Colorado Republican Party is still knee-deep in election conspiracy one year after the January 6th insurrection. Their frontrunner in the Senate primary, Ron Hanks, actually attended the insurrection and crossed police lines. He’s also parading around the state spreading and fundraising off of Trump’s Big Lie. 

Most of the rest of the candidates in the Senate and gubernatorial races have either defended capitol rioters, amplified the voices of violent conspiracy theorists, or endorsed false claims that there were problems with the 2020 election.

See below for candidate ties to January 6th and election denialism:

Ron Hanks

• Hanks attended the January 6th insurrection last year and crossed police lines.
• He’s continuing his commitment to election conspiracy theories by fundraising off of the Big Lie, suing the Secretary of State over the 2020 election results, and supporting Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters who’s currently under federal investigation for allegedly leaking election information to extremists. 

Eli Bremer

• Bremer said he accepted the results of the 2020 election in Colorado, but has been silent on the national results. 
• He defended fellow former olympian Klete Keller who has pleaded guilty to storming the Capitol on January 6th and said he didn’t believe Keller went to the Capitol with “malicious intent,” and called him a “goofball.” 

Gino Campana

• Campana has repeatedly claimed there were “tons of issues” with the 2020 election and wrote the question of whether he thought it was stolen or not off as a “got you type question.”

Deborah Flora

• Flora has dodged questions about the 2020 election and said she supported Arizona’s politically-motivated “audit.”
• During her time as a host on conservative radio, she gave a platform to election conspiracy theorists, including Joe Oltmann, and January 6th attendees and had them on as guests. 

Heidi Ganahl

• Since her launch in September, Ganahl has continued to dodge questions about the 2020 election calling it “divisive”, but her actions are leading voters to believe that she thinks they were fraudulent.
• At a private fundraiser in Durango, Ganahl revealed that Republicans will have to “win big” to override election rigging.
• Ganahl claimed that a national election conspiracy group is “doing great things”
• Ganahl proudly announced that she’s bringing a group of conservative moms with ties to election conspiracies to Colorado to help her combat“election fraud.”

Danielle Neuschwanger

• Neuschwanger attended the election conspiracy rally in support of Tina Peters and Lauren Boebert’s former campaign manager Sheronna Bishop. 

Greg Lopez

• Lopez attended the election conspiracy rally in support of Tina Peters and questions the national results of the 2020 election. 

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