LATEST: Mike Johnston has opened a significant lead on Kelly Brough
, the runoff featured two of the more moderate contenders — Johnston, a former state legislator and nonprofit leader, and Brough, a former top aide in the Denver mayor’s office and then leader of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Referencing Denver’s past voting patterns on Tuesday afternoon, Denver political analyst Eric Sondermann posited that unless Brough was leading by 3 or 4 percentage points in the first batch of results “it’s probably a short night” for her mayoral hopes. In recent years, Johnston has been a serial candidate for higher office. He lost to Gov. Jared Polis in the Democratic primary in 2018 and dropped out of the 2020 U.S. Senate race in Colorado after eventual winner John Hickenlooper entered.
“What I know, with me, is I’ve done that before. I know how to do it. And so I think we can move faster to make progress on some of the critical issues we face today,” she told The Denver Post of her ability to manage the city.
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