Colorado is an outlier in rejecting Trump surge in 2024 election
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The election's red tide crashed into Colorado, but not enough to shake the state's blue bent, an exclusive Axios analysis finds.
Why it matters: A deeper look at voting trends shows that Colorado is an outlier in the 2024 election — with the smallest shift in the nation toward President-elect Trump.
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State of play: Trump and the Republican Party turned America red on the way to winning the White House and the popular vote in Tuesday's election.
- 71% of states shifted more Republican in the 2024 election compared to 2016 when Trump first won, per our analysis of AP election data.
Yes, but: Colorado is not one of them. The state shifted ever-so-slightly toward the middle, favoring the Democratic presidential ticket by 6.6 percentage points, compared to 8.6 points in the 2020 election.
- 34% of the state's counties shifted Republican in 2024.
- Adams County, a key battleground, likely moved the most from 7.8 points in favor of Democrats in 2020 to just 2.4 points for the party in 2024.
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Between the lines: If anything, the state just became more polarized, with Republican counties on the Western Slope and Eastern Plains becoming more red and Democratic counties on the Front Range growing bluer.
