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Tea Party leaders stood by Hill when Gardner entered the race, championing him as the grassroots alternative to the kind of failing candidates the establishment Republican party has offered voters in the state for years.
Colorado lawmakers today will consider a bill that would ban abortion, even in cases of rape and incest and make it a Class 3 felony for doctors to perform the procedure.
Colorado Congressman Cory Gardner seizes on what the struggling state GOP sees as a window of opportunity: he's taking a run at U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, generating enthusiasm and some Tea Party dissent.
The Republican field assembled to unseat U.S. Senator Mark Udall in this year's midterm election is already crowded, which is the polite way to describe it.