Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis praised President-elect Trump for nominating RFK Jr. to be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

During the presidential campaign, Trump said he would veto a national abortion ban from Congress because the issue was sent back to the states when Roe v. Wade was overturned

Yadira Caraveo underperformed in Adams County. Donald Trump won Pueblo County. Proposition 131 received the third fewest “yes” votes of the 14 measures on the statewide ballot.

Gabe Evans, a right-wing state representative, defeated Representative Yadira Caraveo, a first-term Democrat who was the first Latina elected to federal office in Colorado.

The Denver district attorney’s office has opened an investigation into the leak of voting system passwords that were posted to a Colorado state website in June before being taken down last month.

The law was not active in 2024. If it takes effect, it will commit states to award their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner.

Nearly every state shifted distinctly to the right in Tuesday’s election — but Colorado is looking like a rare exception.

CBS News projects that Amendment 79 has passed on election night and a section will be added to Colorado's state constitution recognizing the right to abortion. Colorado law already protects the right to abortion.

Follow CBS Colorado's live updates to see who Coloradans have chosen to vote for and find out which ballot measures are passing.

A measure to implement top-four, all-candidate primaries and ranked choice voting in the general election has failed in Colorado, Decision Desk HQ projects. Coloradans voted down the