Gabe Evans

Colorado’s 8th (CO - 08)

Updated: August 31, 2026

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Overview

Gabe Evans stands with Trump, the billionaires, and his corporate interest donors raising your costs. He has voted with Trump 100% of the time and with his corporate interest donors to make your life more expensive. Manny Rutinel has always fought to lower costs for working families, and he’ll stand up to anyone who’s hurting them.

SUMMARY

Voters in the Denver media market need to see TV ads in both English and Spanish and voters district-wide need to hear radio ads and see ads on cable about the fact that:

  • Gabe Evans voted with Trump to double health insurance premiums for hundreds of thousands of Colorado families and kick more than 140,000 Coloradans off Medicaid to give more tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations, forcing some families to cancel their health insurance altogether as costs continue to rise.
  • The cost of energy, groceries, and  housing are out of control in Colorado because Gabe Evans voted to protect Donald Trump’s tariffs, driving up the cost of groceries and farm supplies, leaving our families to pay more for everyday essentials and forcing our farmers to face skyrocketing costs.
  • Gabe Evans took campaign money from the PAC of the very utility company driving up Coloradans’ rates, then voted for Trump’s budget bill to give his donors huge tax breaks paid for by raising energy bills on Coloradans. Coloradans’ power bills are already up 24% and Evans voted with his own donors’ interests to push them even higher.

Starting immediately through one week before the election,  voters districtwide need to see ads on YouTube, streaming platforms, Meta, programmatic, search engines,  and read mail about the fact that:

  • Gabe Evans voted with Trump to double health insurance premiums for hundreds of thousands of Colorado families and kick more than 140,000 Coloradans off Medicaid to give more tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations, forcing some families to cancel their health insurance altogether as costs continue to rise.
  • The cost of energy, groceries, and housing are out of control in Colorado because Gabe Evans voted to protect Donald Trump’s tariffs, driving up the cost of groceries and farm supplies, leaving our families to pay more for everyday essentials and forcing our farmers to face skyrocketing costs.
  • Gabe Evans took campaign money from the PAC of the very utility company driving up Coloradans’ rates, then voted for Trump’s budget bill to give his donors huge tax breaks paid for by raising energy bills on Coloradans. Coloradans’ power bills are already up 24% and Evans voted with his own donors’ interests to push them even higher.

Voters district-wide need to see ads on YouTube, streaming, Meta, programmatic, and OTT about the fact that:

  • Manny Rutinel is the son of a hard-working single mom. He grew up on Medicaid and worked at McDonald’s to help make ends meet. Manny became an economist in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He’s seen how corporations rig the system against working families like his. 
  • In the Colorado House, Manny worked with Republicans and Democrats to lower costs for working people. He took on the drug companies jacking up insulin prices, cracked down on grocery price gouging, and worked to make housing more affordable. 
  • Manny Rutinel will stand up to stop corruption. He has never taken a dime of corporate PAC money, will fight to ban members of Congress from trading stocks, and supports term limits so your representative works for you, not wealthy special interests.

Starting seven weeks before the election through Election Day, Democratic and Democratic-leaning unaffiliated infrequent voters should see ads on streaming, Meta, Snap, programmatic and read mail about how: 

  • Manny Rutinel will stop Donald Trump’s health care cuts, stop Trump’s Iran war, stop Trump’s tariffs, and hold ICE accountable.

Additional Resources

  • Latino/a voters are a large share of persuadable voters and should see themselves featured in advertising. Latino/a voters can see the same messaging. 
  • Voters under the age of 45 in zip codes 80229, 80221, 80022, 80233, 80031, 80241, 80234, 80030, 80260 should see ads on YouTube about the stakes of this election and information about how and when to vote.
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  • Gabe Evans (CO-08) Research Report



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