The Commie Corridor isn’t just a New York congressional district. It’s the throbbing heart of the Democratic Party. In a Colorado primary yesterday, DSA member Melat Kiros handily defeated 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette in the Colorado’s 1st District. The district covers metropolitan Denver. Kiros handily defeated DeGette, by nearly 10 points with 93 percent of the vote counted.
It’s a Democratic district — D+29. Minnesota’s 5th district, represented by Ilhan Omar, is D+32. DeGette fit the leftist profile of the district. As the Washginton Post points out, she is a member of “the Congressional Progressive Caucus and supports many of the same priorities as Kiros, including abolishing ICE and passing the universal health care proposal known as Medicare-for-all.”
But Kiros is the hot new thing. She hates Israel. The New York Times helpfully explains: “Her opposition to U.S. support for Israel was also a cornerstone of her campaign and central to her political identity.”
The Washington Free Beacon adds that she called both the October 7 and September 11 terror attacks “inevitable”:
She called Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack “an inevitable consequence of apartheid, of occupation, decades of occupation” during a May interview with Hasan Piker, the anti-American streamer who has said “America deserved 9/11.”
The remark prompted a reporter for Denver’s NBC affiliate, Kyle Clark, to ask Kiros if she believed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks “were the inevitable consequence of American foreign policy.” Kiros said they were.
“Inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East that forced people to believe that another act of violence was the only response,” she replied. “And again, just like I said before, our responsibility is to getting rid of those conditions that lead to violence in the first place.”
Both we and they had it coming. The animus against the United States is joined to the animus against Israel. In the Commie Corridor, the Red/Green alliance is the driving force. Kiros accordingly reflects it with the Great Satan/Little Satan mindset. This is from the linked Times story:
In her campaign biography, Ms. Kiros highlighted the fact that the Manhattan law firm where she once worked had fired her in 2023 after she refused to take down a letter that raised questions about Israel’s historical legitimacy, defended pro-Palestinian campus protesters and challenged the firm’s response to activist law students.
She has faced criticism for declining to call antisemitic a fatal firebombing attack in Boulder, Colo., on people who were marching in support of Israeli hostages.
Given the tilt of the district, we can infer that Kiros will join an expanding group of soulmates in the next session of Congress.
In other notable Colorado races, Attorney General Phil Weiser defeated incumbent Senator Michael Bennet for the Dem gubernatorial nomination. Weiser came on strong with the proposition that Bennet had been too accommodating to President Trump, which may come as news to Trump.
According to the Washington Post: “[Weiser] emphasized his record of suing the Trump administration dozens of times as state attorney general and criticized Bennet for voting to confirm eight of Trump’s Cabinet members.” In this statewide race, Weiser defeated Bennet by a margin exceeding 11 points. Bennet will return to his job in the United States Senate.
As will incumbent Senator John Hickenlooper. Hickenlooper knocked off challenger Julia Gonzales by an 11-point margin as well. Given the fact that Gonzales couldn’t even afford television advertising, Hickenlooper’s victory doesn’t exactly belie the trends that can be seen in the results above. Indeed, Gonzales did remarkably well on a budget of some $869,000.
