As U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo emphasizes abortion rights in her reelection race in Colorado’s battleground 8th Congressional District, she’s moved the right on immigration — angerin…
U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo greets supporters who gather at her campaign office to promote her reelection bid on Oct. 12, 2024, in Northglenn.
While the congresswoman’s comments prompted whoops and hollers of support in the room, abortion is not the only driving factor in the tight 8th Congressional District race between Caraveo and Republican Gabe Evans.
Sitting down with The Denver Post, Caraveo, 43, hearkened back to her roots growing up with three siblings in south Adams County. Her parents immigrated to the U.S. from Chihuahua, Mexico, and her father supported the family with construction jobs. That modest upbringing motivated Caraveo to go to college, to earn her medical degree and, eventually, to enter politics.
This time, she has the benefit of incumbency: She’s outraised Evans more than 3-to-1, with a nearly $7 million haul so far. But even as allies have supported her with millions of dollars in outside spending, she’s faced an onslaught of negative adsYard signs supporting U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo as well as other Democratic candidates dot the landscape on Oct. 12, 2024, in Berthoud, Colorado.
Former state Rep. Susan Lontine, a Denver Democrat who served with Caraveo on the Colorado House’s Health and Insurance Committee, said she always “associates her with kids’ health.” She called Caraveo, who served two terms in the state legislature, “really smart and a really determined person.” Chief among those is immigration, one of the most salient discussion points in the top-of-the-ticket presidential matchup between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Migrant encounters at the southern border
U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo, right, speaks to supporters gathered at a private home to promote her reelection bid on Oct. 12, 2024, in Berthoud, Colorado. Her move to the right on immigration infuriated members of the left flank of her party, prompting former state Rep. Joe Salazar tothat Caraveo owed Latinos in her district an explanation for her “hypocritical public support of racist, conspiratorial right-wing immigration stances.
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