Colorado’s 64 counties have submitted the results of the Republican and Democratic Party presidential primaries — one of which was an actual contest: the Republican primary.
Donald J. Trump won about 63% of the GOP votes — a total of 517,884 — while Nikki Haley pulled in about 33% with 273,809 votes. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans who have dropped out of the race won a smattering of votes. In total, 818,560 voters participated in the election on the Republican side.
Voting in the Democratic primary was much lighter, with only 534,271 votes cast. The presumptive candidate, Joe Biden, won about 84% of the vote, running against seven other candidates. About 8% of the ballots were cast for “Noncommitted delegate” — a choice the Colorado Democratic Party had placed on the ballot to accommodate voters who preferred to vote for “none of the above.”
Only about 36% of Colorado’s 3.8 million active voters participated in the two elections.
You can get additional information about the Colorado primary election at https://www.coloradosos.gov/
Details about the tallies in Archuleta County were not yet available at the Secretary of State’s website when this article was posted.
Colorado was 1 of 15 states to hold a presidential primary election on Super Tuesday — yesterday, March 5. Ballots were mailed to voters starting February 12.
In Colorado, registered Democrats voted in the Democratic primary… registered Republicans voted in the Republican primary, and unaffiliated voters could chose to vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary, (but not both.)
The Democratic presidential primary ballot contained eight candidates, including the clear Democratic frontrunner and incumbent President Joe Biden. It also offered the option to vote for “Noncommitted delegate” — a delegate not bound to support a particular candidate at the national convention.
The Republican presidential primary ballot contained seven candidates, including the clear Republican frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, and the other major candidate still in the race, Nikki Haley. The ballot also offered a write-in option.
The findings from a new survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests that more than 6 in 10 Americans (63%) say they’re not very or not at all confident in Biden’s mental capability to serve effectively as president, meaning that tomorrow’s State of the Union address will be something of a real-time audition for a second term.
A slightly smaller share of adults (57%) say that Trump lacks the memory and acuity for the job.
It appears the poll surveyed ‘adults’ rather than ‘likely voters’… which makes the results less meaningful. The only adults who really matter in this particular contest are the ones who actually vote their ballot.