{"id":1583349,"date":"2022-08-01T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583349"},"modified":"2022-08-01T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T21:35:19","slug":"kirkmeyer-caraveo-vie-for-colorados-new-8th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kirkmeyer-caraveo-vie-for-colorados-new-8th-congressional-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkmeyer, Caraveo Vie for Colorado\u2019s New 8th Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkirkmeyer-caraveo-vie-for-colorados-new-8th-congressional-district%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On June 28, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-colorado\">Colorado<\/a> voters took to the polls during the state\u2019s primary election to choose a candidate for Colorado\u2019s newly created 8th Congressional District. Republicans chose state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer as their candidate, and Democrats chose state Rep. Yadira Caraveo.<\/p>\n<p>During the primaries, Kirkmeyer\u2019s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/candidate\/H2CO08079\/\">raised $337,756<\/a>, according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), placing her second to last regarding campaign contributions. However, she triumphed over three other Republican contenders, receiving 40.9 percent of the vote. Her closest opponent, Jan Kulmann, received 22.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Caraveo, who ran unopposed, raised more than $847,012, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/candidate\/H2CO08020\/\">according<\/a> to the FEC.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, if Republicans are to gain the majority in the House, they\u2019ll need to flip a net of five seats, and Colorado\u2019s newest congressional district is a true toss-up. As such, the race for the 8th Congressional District could help decide who controls Congress following the November election.<\/p>\n<p> Kirkmeyer vs. Caraveo <\/p>\n<p>Kirmeyer, a conservative state senator for Colorado\u2019s 23rd\u00a0district, described herself as a common sense candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving grown up on a farm\u00a0and later working as a\u00a0dairy farmer, I was taught and instilled with\u00a0a deep appreciation for the\u00a0values of hard work and frugality\u201d she told The Epoch Times. \u201cDon\u2019t\u00a0spend more than you earn!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She noted that her upbringing instilled the deep conservative values that would inform her decision-making in Congress.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/27\/Kirkmeyer.jpg\"><\/a> State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, a Republican, said she appealed to 8th Congressional District Republican primary voters by touting a legislative record that includes 17 pieces of legislation that she sponsored being adopted since her 2020 election. (Courtesy of Kirkmeyer For Congress) <\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Caraveo, a progressive representative of Colorado\u2019s 31st district, came from an immigrant family that instilled the value of hard work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraveoforcongress.com\/about\">according<\/a> to her campaign website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Caraveo\u2019s parents] didn\u2019t have much education or much money, but they knew that hard work and caring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 28, Colorado voters took to the polls during the state\u2019s primary election to choose a candidate for Colorado\u2019s newly created 8th Congressional District. Republicans chose state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer as their candidate, and Democrats chose state Rep. Yadira Caraveo. During the primaries, Kirkmeyer\u2019s campaign raised $337,756, according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1203,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}