See latest polls for Colorado governor, Trump approval and more – The Coloradoan
The primary election is about a month away in Colorado, with mail ballots already sent to overseas and military voters.
Most ballots will go out on June 8, the same day ballot drop boxes will be available, with the state recommending they be mailed back by June 22 to be sure they are counted.
Despite how quickly the primary election is approaching, there is scant polling in key races that will be decided on June 30.
The flow of poll numbers should change as the election approaches and as candidates try to shape the narrative of who is winning or who has momentum. Until then, here is a roundup of the most recent polling related to the governor’s race, approval numbers for President Donald Trump and other key primaries.
In a poll by Cygnal Research & Polling on behalf of Freedom IEC, an independent expenditure committee supporting minister and Marine veteran Victor Marx, he polled the highest among GOP gubernatorial candidates with 59%. State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer had 15% and State Rep. Scott Bottoms had 6%.
The survey was taken May 7-8 and included 606 likely primary voters (including some unaffiliated), with a margin of error of 4%, according to poll organizers.
Polling is even more stale on the Democratic side. The last public survey testing a head-to-head matchup between U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and state Attorney General Phil Weiser was a Bennet internal poll in June 2025 that gave him a 53% to 22% lead over Weiser.
A survey by New Bridge Strategy, a Republican pollster, and Aspect Strategic, a Democratic firm, for the nonpartisan Colorado Polling Institute looked at favorability of leading Democrats.
About half of the voters had not heard of Weiser or had no opinion of him, while 26% said they had a favorable view of him and 23% said they viewed him unfavorably.
Bennet was viewed favorably by 40% of voters, 39% said they viewed him unfavorably, with the remaining balance either not having heard of him or holding no opinion.
The poll of 613 likely 2026 voters was taken March 20 to March 25 and had a 4% margin of error, according to poll organizers.
The Colorado Polling Institute poll, the last survey released by a more traditional pollster, said 37% of likely 2026 voters in Colorado had a favorable view of Trump, while 61% said they viewed him unfavorably.
Civiqs, which offers regular updates from its online surveys, pegged approval in Colorado of Trump’s job performance at 33%, with disapproval at 63% on May 26 (the remainder said they neither approved nor disapproved).
Drew Linzer, the director of Civiqs, previously told the USA TODAY Network the firm uses advanced and proprietary modeling to develop results from online surveys of around 200 to 250 registered voters daily across the country. Voters in Colorado and other states are represented in the sample “proportional to the sizes of those states in the US population.” Those results are part of the process used in calculating Trump’s approval rating in each state.
Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, stretching from the northwestern Denver suburbs into Greeley, is considered one of the most competitive in the country.
Incumbent Rep. Gabe Evans, a Fort Lupton Republican, has no opposition in his primary.
In the Democratic primary, an internal poll for former state Rep. Shannon Bird shows her leading with 25%, followed by state Rep. Manny Rutinel at 24% and Marine veteran Evan Munsing at 6%. About 45% of respondents were undecided in the poll, taken of 400 registered voters from April 20-22 by Normington, Petts & Associates. The poll has a margin of error of 4.9%.
Munsing dropped out of the race May 27.
The only public poll for the Democratic primary in the U.S. Senate race to date was taken before the party assembly, which winnowed the field. It showed incumbent U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper leading State Sen. Julie Gonzales 45% to 13%, with 37% undecided and the remaining balance going to candidates no longer in the race.
The April CPI poll only tested Hickenlooper, finding him with a 43% favorable, 43% unfavorable rating.
There is no Republican primary. State Sen. Mark Baisley of Roxborough Park is the only candidate on the GOP ballot.
Nate Trela covers trending news in Colorado and Utah for the USA TODAY Network, with an emphasis on consumer finance, legal issues and state laws.
