Colorado has voted for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the presidential race, giving the state’s 10 electoral votes to the Democratic vice president, the Associated Press projected Tuesday night.
As of 9:23 p.m., Harris led with about 55% of the vote to 43% for Trump in Colorado as counting continued across the state. The rest of the vote was split between a half-dozen third-party and unaffiliated candidates.
AP made its projection at 8:08 p.m. Around the same time, Democrats erupted in cheers at the state party’s election results-watching party at Number 38, a market hall in Denver, as NBC News made the same projection.
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It’s the third presidential election in a row that the state’s voters have rejected Trump — after going in 2016 for Hillary Clinton, who lost the election, and in 2020 for now-President Joe Biden, who beat Trump here by 13.5 percentage points. The last Republican presidential candidate to snag Colorado’s electoral votes was George W. Bush in 2004.
Colorado has been regarded as a blue state in recent cycles, and the major candidates’ campaigns mostly used the state to host fundraisers.
But Trump visited early last month, seizing on Aurora’s troubles with Venezuelan gangs in a handful of apartment complexes to press his plans for mass deportations and to root out immigrant gangs in American cities. His exaggerated rhetoric drew pushback from several local officials, including the city’s mayor.
Staff writer Elizabeth Hernandez and the Associated Press contributed to this story.
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