Benta Birkeland
speaker
28 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Benta Birkeland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 3.
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We heard dissatisfaction with Washington.
Caleb Mazner is 27.
He works in construction.
He voted for President Trump twice, but doesn't support the direction of the country and how expensive things are.
In the Republican primary, there are two state lawmakers, Scott Bottoms, who's also a pastor, and Barbara Kirkmeyer.
And there's a political outsider, Victor Marks.
He served in the Marine Corps and says he's a high-risk humanitarian who's rescued people overseas, but opponents say he's lying.
As a blue state, the stakes are especially high on the Democratic side.
In that race, there's a well-known name, U.S.
Senator Michael Bennett and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.
The state's highest court says the Democratic proposed initiatives did not pass muster on a technicality requiring single subjects for initiatives.
Backers hope to ask voters this fall to temporarily pause the state's independent redistricting commission to draw seven blue seats, leaving only one red district in 2028.
Colorado's current congressional delegation is evenly split 4-4.
Democrats in Colorado say the decision is deeply disappointing and gives the party one less tool to combat Trump and Republicans' mid-cycle redistricting.
For NPR News, I'm Benta Birkeland in Denver.
When you no longer have your frontline eyes and ears on the ground, it's very easy for an outbreak to spread very quickly.
Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters received a nearly nine-year sentence after she tampered with county voting machines to try to prove Trump's false claims of a stolen 2020 election.
The Democratic governor said the sentence was too harsh.
He also agreed with the state appeals court that her election denial beliefs improperly influenced the length of her sentence and ordered her release on June 1st.
Colorado Democrats say it's a dangerous and disappointing precedent that undermines the party and democratic institutions.
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