The two parties’ razor-thin majorities in Colorado’s split legislature are in an increasingly precarious position in the waning days of the November election, faced with the legitimate prospect of controlling both, one, or neither of the two chamber’s, former House Republican Majority Leader Amy Stephens told ABC affiliate Denver7’s “Politics Unplugged.”
With a Republican majority of one in the upper chamber and a Democratic advantage of three in the lower, Stephens, now a Dentons principal, said the composition of the state legislature on November 9 is a question of election day ground game.
“It’s about turnout,” Stephens, who was credited with helping House Republicans win their one-seat majority in the 2010 election that saw her installed as the chamber’s number-three Republican, said before conceding that “Republicans are behind” in early voting.
