Heidi Ganahl Goes All-In on Conspiracies

While GOP candidate Heidi Ganahl left any semblance of a “do no harm” campaign behind a long time ago, anti-vaccine conspiracies and misinformation are once again part of her campaign platform.

Ganahl has chosen to spend the last weeks of her campaign spreading misinformation by Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson.

Ganahl has a history of promoting anti-vaccine conspiracies: shortly after launching her campaign, Ganahl held an event with anti-vaccination reactionary Dennis Prager, who later announced that he had contracted COVID-19 on purpose. Last year Ganahl voted in favor of an anti-vaccine resolution as a CU Regent last year that would have eliminated all vaccine requirements, including flu and tetanus immunizations.

This is on top of the many other extreme conspiracy theories Ganahl has promoted. Most recently she has quadrupled down on saying “kids are identifying as cats” in Colorado schools–a hoax spread by Ganahl campaign volunteers on a right-wing parents group on Facebook. 

Ganahl has not apologized to the kids she shamed and targeted or the LGBTQ community, as she said she would Sunday night. She attributes her anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and positions to an elementary school play about a transgender raven.

“For over a year now, Heidi Ganahl has allied herself with extremists and election deniers, parroted baseless conspiracy theories, and promoted misinformation that has been corrected by the media again and again. As Heidi likes to say, Coloradans are not extremists–and in less than three weeks, voters will reject MAGA Heidi’s signature extremism once and for all.” – Colorado Democratic Party spokesperson Kailee Stiles

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