“The president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that ‘Sir, you do not have the votes and it’s time to withdraw,’” Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert said, drawing an audible response from her colleagues on the House floor
Conrad Swanson covers Colorado’s environment and politics for The Denver Post’s political team. An Iowa native, he joined the paper in November 2019 after stints at the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Lawrence Journal World in Kansas and the Sioux City Journal in Iowa. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a focus in economics.
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