Citing insufficient resources, Republican Tom Tancredo drops out of Colorado governor's race
Author: Ernest Luning - January 30, 2018 - Updated: 1 hour ago
Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo is ending his bid for the Republican nomination for Colorado governor on Tuesday because he hasn’t raised the money he believes would be necessary to win an expensive election against a wealthy Democrat willing to spend millions on his campaign, Colorado Politics has learned.
“I do not want to win a primary and lose a general, and I fear that was where we were going,” he told Colorado Politics in an interview. “Even though I’m the front-runner — you make it through a primary, and then all hell breaks loose, you have millions upon millions of dollars spent attacking you, and you can’t respond, you don’t have the resources to respond. It appeared to me the goal — winning the general, that was the main goal — and it does not appear to me to be feasible.”
One of nine announced GOP candidates for governor, Tancredo has led the pack by wide margins in every publicly available poll. He’s run for governor twice before — in 2010 as a third-party candidate, when he lost to Democrat John Hickenlooper but received more than three times as many votes as the Republican nominee, and in 2014, when he came in second in a four-way Republican primary.
Tancredo said he was confident he could win the June primary election but anticipated his campaign would be overwhelmed by Democratic candidate U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, one of the wealthiest members of Congress , who has already spent nearly $1.4 million on his campaign.
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