John Hickenlooper projected to win Colorado Senate race, a pickup for Democrats
Source: CNBC
John Hickenlooper is projected to win Colorado's Senate race, flipping a key seat to Democratic control, according to NBC News.
The former Colorado governor will defeat first-term Republican Sen. Cory Gardner. Democrats aim to cut into the GOP's 53-47 Senate majority in the 2020 election.
Gardner faced one of the toughest paths to reelection in the Senate as Colorado drifted further into blue territory during his first term. The 46-year-old walked a political tightrope as he supported the GOP's swift and divisive confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett but touted bipartisan work on issues such as public lands preservation.
Former two-term Democratic Gov. Hickenlooper, like his party's Senate challengers around the country, ran on a health-care focused platform. He had also criticized the Senate for its inability to pass coronavirus relief as infections spiked around the country ahead of the election.
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