FINAL: Democratic State Sen. Brittany Pettersen won the race for Colorado’s 7th Congressional District
Democratic State Sen. Brittany Pettersen won the race for Colorado’s 7th Congressional District Tuesday, with the Associated Press calling her nearly 20% lead over Republican challenger and Army veteran Erik Aadland good enough for a victory.
The results encompassed more than 266,000 ballots total with Pettersen getting more than 158,000 of them. The Jefferson County-anchored district has beenIn their analysis of the race, most national politics prognosticators have been giving the advantage to Pettersen. While the 7th district stretches across eight counties and as far south as rural Custer County
, it is primarily centered on populous Jefferson and Broomfield counties, which have turned blue in recent years.“Like many highly-educated, affluent suburban enclaves across the country, Jefferson County has moved left in recent years,” Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, told The Denver Post earlier in the campaign. “Aadland probably needs this to become more of a GOP wave year in order to win.
While the traditional advantage of the party out of power in the White House during mid-term elections was evident in the spring, when burgeoning inflation and talk of recession gave Republicans a boost in polls, Democrats chipped away at some of that momentum after the
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