Republican challenger Gabe Evans has defeated Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo for Colorado’s eighth Congressional District, one of many nation’s most intently watched races, in keeping with the Related Press.
With this race known as, and one other in California at this time, this leaves the Republicans with 216 seats, to the Democrats’ 207 seats. The GOP is now simply two seats shy of a majority within the Home, with 12 races remaining to be known as.
Evans beforehand served within the U.S. Military and Colorado Military Nationwide Guard as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot and firm commander.
Along with his service within the army, Evans, a first-term state consultant from Fort Lupton, additionally served as an Arvada police officer for greater than a decade.
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State Rep. Gabe Evans and Dem. Rep. Yadira Caraveo confronted off in CO-08 (Getty Photos)
Former President Trump gave Evans his “Full and Whole Endorsement” earlier this yr, writing in a submit to Fact Social, “A adorned Military helicopter pilot and police officer, Gabe shall be an INCREDIBLE Fighter in Congress and can work exhausting to Develop the Economic system, Decrease Inflation, Uphold the Rule of Legislation, Defend the Border, Promote American Vitality, and Assist our Nice Army and Police.”
Caraveo, a pediatrician, campaigned exhausting on abortion entry and related Evans with the insurance policies and rhetoric of Trump.
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Colorado State Home of Consultant Gabe Evans works on the Colorado State Capitol on February 8, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Publish by way of Getty Photos)
Immigration was a key difficulty through the marketing campaign in a district that’s almost 40% Latino and was anticipated to play a pivotal function in figuring out which get together controls Congress.
Caraveo was considered one of 211 Democrats who voted in opposition to the Safe the Border Act of 2023. That measure, which handed within the Home, would have expanded the kind of crimes that make somebody ineligible for asylum, restricted the eligibility to those that arrive at ports of entry, mandated a system much like the E-Confirm employment eligibility verification system and created further penalties for visa overstay.
Caraveo was additionally one of many many Home Democrats who voted in opposition to a GOP-led effort within the Home to question Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Dem. Rep. Yadira Caraveo (Getty Photos)
Throughout her earlier tenure within the Colorado state Home of Representatives, Caraveo joined different Democrats from throughout the nation to ship a letter urging the Biden administration to chill out immigration guidelines and “divest from immigration enforcement companies like ICE and CBP.”
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Colorado’s eighth District includes most of Adams County, a big portion of Weld County, and a part of Larimer County north of downtown Denver.
Fox Information Digital’s Kyle Morris contributed to this report