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Republican Rep. Jeff Hurd wins reelection in Colorado's 3rd District, AP says

Unofficial state results show Hurd with 49.29 percent to Democrat Dwayne Romero's 47.44 percent in a district Democrats had targeted.

3 news outlets reported this
Liberal0 outletslittle coverageCenter1 outletHurd's win and who the candidates areConservative2 outletsHurd's narrow win and Colorado Republicans' standing
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Overview

Republican Rep. Jeff Hurd won a second term in the U.S. House from Colorado's 3rd , defeating Democrat Dwayne Romero. The Associated Press called the race. Unofficial results from the Colorado Secretary of State, as reported by The Epoch Times, give Hurd 49.29 percent of the vote and Romero 47.44 percent.

Hurd, a lawyer, was first elected in 2024. The seat leans Republican, and Democrats had targeted it as a potential pickup. Romero is a retired Army officer.

Hurd told The Epoch Times by email that he thanked Romero for a hard-fought campaign and that his focus is on southwest Colorado communities recovering from devastating flooding. Romero did not respond to that outlet's request for comment. Just the News reports that Hurd may end up as the only Republican from Colorado's House delegation to survive the .

It says the race in the 4th District remains in the balance, with Democrat Eileen Laubacher ahead of Republican incumbent Lauren Boebert.

Key figures
  • 49.29 percent Hurd's share, in unofficial Colorado Secretary of State results — The Epoch Times
  • 47.44 percent Romero's share, in the same unofficial results — The Epoch Times
  • 163,655 votes Hurd's total, in unofficial results — The Epoch Times
  • 157,523 votes Romero's total, in unofficial results — The Epoch Times
  • 95% share of votes counted as of 1 p.m. ET, per Just the News — Just the News

Three sides of the story

Liberal0 outlets

Outlets on the left gave this story little coverage.

Center1 outlet

Hurd's win and who the candidates are

The Seattle Times reports that Hurd, the Republican incumbent, won on Friday over Democrat Dwayne Romero in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District. Its headline and first sentence both put the result first: who won, which seat and whom he beat. It describes Hurd as first elected in 2024 to represent the rural Western Slope, and as a lawyer before he entered .

Romero appears as a retired Army officer who also served as a state economic development official. The paper says Democrats had targeted the district, which leans Republican, as a potential pickup opportunity. It notes the Associated Press called the race at 11:24 a.m. EST.

The report is a short race call built around the outcome, the district and the candidates' backgrounds, and it ends with the time of the AP's call.

Conservative2 outlets

Hurd's narrow win and Colorado Republicans' standing

The Epoch Times says Hurd "narrowly" won another term and builds its report on the vote count: 49.29 percent against Romero's 47.44 percent in unofficial state results. It quotes Hurd by email thanking voters and Romero, and saying his focus is on flood recovery in southwest Colorado. It notes Romero did not respond, and covers Romero's promise of change and Hurd's border-security stance.

Just the News leads with Hurd defeating his Democratic challenger and gives him 49.3% to Romero's 47.4% with 95% counted as of 1 p.m. ET. It says Hurd may end up the only Republican in Colorado's House delegation to survive the midterms. It points to the 4th District, where Democrat Eileen Laubacher is nearly 3,000 votes ahead of Rep. Lauren Boebert, and cites the Denver Gazette on Hurd's 5-point win in 2024.

What a side did not mention
  • Centrist outlets did not mentionUnofficial results gave Hurd 49.3 percent of the vote and Romero 47.4 percent. Reported by Just the News, The Epoch Times
  • Centrist outlets did not mentionHurd won his first term in 2024 by about five points with 50.8 percent of the vote. Reported by Just the News, The Epoch Times
Where outlets disagree
All sources: 3 articles from 3 outlets

Center (1)

Conservative (2)

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