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Gardner was there on a panel with Iowa’s Jon Ernst and Arkansas’s Tom Cotton. And they all learned the lesson that John Hickenlooper learned in Aspen – that wherever you go, you can be sure that someone is recording it.
Cillizza makes the case that this is hardly a game-breaker, noting that those most likely to be offended are already voting for Mark Udall, but that “Gardner’s comments are the most politically problematic — he’s clearly casting for outside spenders to dump money into his race.” You can hear the audio now, or you can wait for the inevitable TV ads. If nothing else, it takes the pressure off Udall’s relationship with billionaire Tom Steyer.