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‘Bernie Polis’ vs. Trump’s ‘yes man’: In closing arguments on the...

BOULDER — Twenty-four hours before polls close in Colorado, the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor spent the evening lobbing bombs at each other...

The privilege and promise of Walker Stapleton: A Portrait in Four...

The life and times of Walker Stapleton, Colorado's 2018 Republican nominee for governor

Littwin: Stapleton changes debate strategy, trading in faux anger for phony...

If you watch the governor’s debates closely — and, because it’s my job, I do — you saw a, uh, radical change in Walker Stapleton’s...

Debate highlights: Polis and Stapleton on Trump, Bernie, Jovan Melton and...

Republican state Treasurer Walker Stapleton spent parts of Colorado’s second-to-last gubernatorial debate trying to turn a 1999 police incident involving his opponent, Democratic Congressman...

His last two elections were GOP waves. This year Walker Stapleton...

This is the final installment of a four-part series about Colorado’s Republican nominee for governor. Read part one, part two and part three. Walker Stapleton is no happy...

Pedigree and political ambition launched Walker Stapleton into the treasurer’s office,...

Walke Stapleton, running for governor, departed from his Democratic predecessor as state treasurer

Walker Stapleton’s short and winding road from business to politics

Walker Stapleton's short and winding road from business to politics

The privilege and promise of Walker Stapleton

Walker Stapleton, the GOP nominee for Colorado governor, is a scion of two powerful political families who had early ambitious for public office

Littwin: Stapleton is mad as hell, and he doesn’t think you...

PUEBLO — Walker Stapleton is mad as hell and not just because he’s losing in the polls to Jared Polis. He’s mad — red-faced...

Six takeaways from the first Walker Stapleton and Jared Polis debate

In Colorado’s first televised gubernatorial debate of the 2018 general election, Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton did what voters have come to...