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A moderate Democrat<\/a> mounting his last campaign staved off a progressive challenger in Colorado, marking a small speed bump in the rapid far-left evolution of the Democratic Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., a longtime fixture in Colorado politics, overcame a challenge from state Sen. Julie Gonzales, his progressive challenger, who has argued that Democrats need to be more aggressive in their pushback against President Donald Trump.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hickenlooper, who is vying for a second term in the upper chamber, said this would be his final campaign for the Senate. Gonzales hoped to speed up his exit with a campaign that went after the lawmaker\u2019s moderate position and votes in favor of some of Trump\u2019s nominees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“John Hickenlooper has been in office for over 20 years,” Gonzales said in her campaign launch ad.<\/u><\/a> “I know that we\u2019re not fooled by his so-called \u2018commonsense approach,\u2019 cause there is no sense in voting for Donald Trump\u2019s nominees.”<\/p>\n

Still, Gonzales\u2019 defeat Tuesday night was a stumble for the progressive wave that has<\/a> swept the Democratic Party during this midterm election cycle, which has seen new blood hungry for change challenging the old guard and party leadership in Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hickenlooper, 74, who served two terms each as Denver\u2019s mayor and Colorado\u2019s governor before launching a failed bid for president, has been a stalwart fixture in the Centennial State, while Gonzales, 43, positioned herself as part of the new wave.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Their battle for the Democratic nomination came just a week after a trio of progressive candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> clinched their Democratic nominations. Notably, Mamdani-backed Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer and socialist, toppled five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y.<\/p>\n

And the battle between Hickenlooper and Gonzales was not the only intraparty fist fight between a moderate incumbent and progressive in Colorado.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Melat Kiros, a socialist, is squaring off against longtime Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District. Kiros also sported the endorsement of one of Hickenlooper\u2019s colleagues: Sen. Bernie Sanders,<\/a> I-Vt.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hickenlooper will now face state Sen. Mark Baisley in November. Baisley, who ran unopposed in the Colorado GOP primary, initially launched a campaign for governor in the race to replace term-limited Gov. Jared Polis but dropped out of the contest to run for the Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital did not immediately receive comment from the Hickenlooper and Gonzales campaigns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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