The Administration’s increasingly unpopular immigration agenda and the deaths of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota “has resonated across the farms, oil and gas rigs, and shopping centers” in Gabe Evans’ district, which “could imperil” the vulnerable Republican’s re-election chances, the Associated Press reports.
Every voter the AP spoke with who identified as Hispanic expressed concerns, with one stating that Evans’ complicity has convinced him and those around him to vote in 2026:
“[Hernandez] did not vote in 2024 and has never cast a ballot before, like many he knows. He intends to change that this year, and he thinks he is not the only one. ‘More people are like, oh … we’ve got to vote,’ he said.”
Last cycle, Evans won his roughly 40% Hispanic district by fewer than 2,500 votes.
Another voter pointed out that Evans has “always supported Trump in everything he does.”
REMINDER: Evans’s re-election chances are already in jeopardy after Evans voted to kick more than 200,000 Coloradans off their health care to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Polling shows that 63% of registered voters in Colorado’s eighth congressional district say they are “less likely” to support a candidate who voted to cut Medicaid. Despite overwhelming opposition from his constituents, Evans voted for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history.
Read the reporting for yourself:
Associated Press: What a swing House district in Colorado shows about Republicans’ immigration fallout in the midterms
- Trump’s immigration drive in Minnesota, and the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, has resonated across the farms, oil and gas rigs, and shopping centers of Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, a swing seat stretching northeast from Denver.
- If such sentiments hold until the fall, that could imperil House Republicans who won their seats by narrow margins and could jeopardize the GOP’s full control of political power in Washington.
- Even a small shift is significant in the 8th District, where Republican Gabe Evans was elected to Congress in 2024 by 2,449 votes out of more than 333,000 cast. His seat is one of the Democrats’ top targets as they push to retake the House in Novem
- Some 4 of 10 voters in Evans’ district are Hispanic. In more than two dozen interviews across the district, every voter who identified as Hispanic spoke of being offended by Trump’s immigration crackdown. Many — U.S. citizens all — feared for their own safety.
- “[Gabe Evans has] said nothing against it,” said Jim Getman, a retired electrical technician who volunteered for Democrats in 2024. “He’s always supported Trump in everything he does.”
- Joe Hernandez, 27, pays far less attention to politics… He did not vote in 2024 and has never cast a ballot before, like many he knows. He intends to change that this year, and he thinks he is not the only one. “More people are like, oh … we’ve got to vote,” he said.
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