It hurts republican downballot candidates tho. There's gonna be a number of Trump voters who won't show up if he's not on the ballot and they would have been straight ticket republican votes.
Also this sets a big precedent.
Colorado is very blue. Most Republicans left for Idaho or Texas a long time ago.
3 out of 8 of their house members are republicans, famously including Lauren Boebert. Obviously not a ton but margins in both chambers have been razor thin lately so every bit counts.
95% of the state population libe in blue areas. 5% live in the east or west and south of Colorado.
They have 3 house seats in Colorado and one of them is one of the dumbest, most toxic fucking people in congress and she (Boebert) won her seat with 50.06% of the vote.
Literally .07% of people not showing up in her election would have been a victory for her opponent. It was a 546 vote difference. That is razor thin.
Then for the other two republican house seats, one of them won with 60.9% of the vote and another won with 56% of the vote.
So your argument doesn't really hold up here. Two of those seats are arguably in jeopardy. Maybe even the third. The Republicans have the house by only 8 seats right now. Every single seat counts for a lot. Even if the democrats didn't take the house, a smaller margin prevents fucksticks like the freedom caucus from being so obstructive of bipartisan legislation.
And all of this ignores stuff like state, county, and school district level positions.
It hurts republican downballot candidates tho. There's gonna be a number of Trump voters who won't show up if he's not on the ballot and they would have been straight ticket republican votes.
Also this sets a big precedent.
Colorado is very blue. Most Republicans left for Idaho or Texas a long time ago.
3 out of 8 of their house members are republicans, famously including Lauren Boebert. Obviously not a ton but margins in both chambers have been razor thin lately so every bit counts.
95% of the state population libe in blue areas. 5% live in the east or west and south of Colorado.
They have 3 house seats in Colorado and one of them is one of the dumbest, most toxic fucking people in congress and she (Boebert) won her seat with 50.06% of the vote.
Literally .07% of people not showing up in her election would have been a victory for her opponent. It was a 546 vote difference. That is razor thin.
Then for the other two republican house seats, one of them won with 60.9% of the vote and another won with 56% of the vote.
So your argument doesn't really hold up here. Two of those seats are arguably in jeopardy. Maybe even the third. The Republicans have the house by only 8 seats right now. Every single seat counts for a lot. Even if the democrats didn't take the house, a smaller margin prevents fucksticks like the freedom caucus from being so obstructive of bipartisan legislation.
And all of this ignores stuff like state, county, and school district level positions.