Another U.S. House seat fell into the GOP column on Sunday after NBC News called a Colorado race for the Republican challenger.
Gabe Evans edged out Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) in the state’s 8th District, winning with 49% of the vote as of Sunday and leading Caraveo to concede. The razor-thin margin divided both candidates by just 2,500 votes. “It’s been the honor of a lifetime to serve the people of Colorado’s 8th District,” Caraveo, a pediatrician and former state lawmaker, said in a written statement to the Colorado Sun. “While this isn’t the outcome we had hoped for, the work is not over. I look forward to returning to Washington to finish out this term.”
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Caraveo was the first member of Congress to fill the newly drawn district, winning office during the 2022 midterms in a state that went for President Joe Biden by about 14 points in 2020 and 11 points for Vice President Kamala Harris last week. The win for Evans, an Army veteran and former police officer, is all the more remarkable given the difficult political terrain in the suburbs north of Denver….
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