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Gabe Evans: “Nationally, it's a top five pickup opportunity.”

Featuring: Gabe Evans, Republican | U.S. Representative, Colorado's 8th Congressional District

Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District

Published July 11, 2024 | Video Starts at 10:42

So I put on my army hat. I say, how do we restore some balance in Colorado? The 8th congressional district is the biggest pickup opportunity in the state of Colorado. Nationally, it's a top five pickup opportunity. And so, I mean, I'm a soldier, right? I know that we've got to take some ground back here in Colorado, so I didn't have to resign my state legislative seat, but I can't run for that again. (10:42–10:46)

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Asserts that Colorado's 8th congressional district is a top five opportunity for Republicans nationally.

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“Colorado was, as we typically are, well above the national average for our crime rate.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 08:56-09:02
“In the ten years that I was a cop, from 2011 to 2022, we watched Colorado go from above the national average, better than the national…”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 09:05-09:16
“We're number two for property crime, we're number eight for violent crime.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 09:16-09:21
“60% of our kids can't read at the third grade level when they're in third grade.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 10:15-10:20
“70% of them can't do 8th grade math when they're in 8th grade.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 10:19-10:23
“Colorado is the number two state of the nation for teenagers overdosing and dying on illegal drugs.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 10:23-10:30
“The 8th congressional district is the biggest pickup opportunity in the state of Colorado.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 10:36-10:42
“The 8th congressional district is the biggest pickup opportunity in the state of Colorado.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 10:36-10:42
“The folks in Colorado are sick and tired of the high crime, high cost of living, failing education system, open border, sanctuary city and…”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 15:10-15:21
“She [the Democrat opponent] has voted against our military because she thinks that we need to be able to siphon more money away from the…”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 16:43-20:31
“The Democrat that I'm running against in this race...voted against the Born Alive Act.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 20:15-20:41
“She's [the Democrat opponent] a big supporter of taxpayer funding for abortion.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 20:18-20:23
“Democrats don't actually care about reproductive care.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 21:07-21:10
“Democrats just want to sell abortions for any reason whatsoever.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 21:33-21:37
“The pro life movement has been working for a half a century to get Roe overturned.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 24:32-24:38
“The Supreme Court was pretty clear when they sent [the issue of abortion] back to the states.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 24:39-24:44
“Even President Trump does not support a national abortion ban.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 24:55-24:59
“I was homeschooled all twelve years here in Colorado.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 28:08-28:11
“I went to a college that didn't take government funding because that college wanted to maintain its academic freedom.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 28:11-28:17
“In a super minority down at the state Capitol, 19 Republicans to 46 Democrats, I still got almost 60% of my bills passed.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 28:58-29:06
“Two thirds of the sitting mayors right now in the 8th congressional district are not supporting their incumbent congresswoman.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 29:19-29:26
“Unions typically support Democrats, but there's a lot of unions that are pretty upset that Democrats want to just get rid of oil and gas…”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 30:55-31:03
“There's only six things the government is supposed to be doing, and that's listed in the preamble to the constitution.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 33:26-33:32
“Fentanyl is the number one killer of Americans ages 18 to 45.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 34:37-34:42
“Colorado is the number two state in the nation for teenagers overdosing and dying on drugs.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 34:42-34:49
“Colorado ends up having to shell out roughly 300 million taxpayer dollars from December of 2022 to date to support illegal immigrants.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 37:20-37:32
“Denver Police Department is taking an $8 million cut to go pay for folks who have illegally entered this country.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 37:46-37:53
“My Democrat opponent voted for a law in Colorado that makes it illegal for me as a police officer to call up my federal counterparts.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 40:28-40:38
“The northern part of the district is the fourth highest energy producing region in the nation.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 41:51-41:57
“It's the 8th highest ag producing region in the nation.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 41:56-42:00
“This district just in the energy sector, has lost $7 billion in the last two years because of how Joe Biden and his allies in Congress, like…”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 42:50-43:06
“They've lost a million dollars in revenue just from the hit that the energy sector took because the energy sector pays a lot of property…”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 43:54-44:04
“We could get $500 million into our classrooms tomorrow if we just cut bureaucracy in our state department of education.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 47:05-47:17
“All the states that are surrounded in Colorado are able to get about 65% of their budget into the classroom.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 47:25-47:33
“In Colorado, we only get 58% of our budget into the classroom.”
Interview with Gabe Evans, Republican Candidate for Colorado's 8th Congressional District | Uploaded July 11, 2024 | 47:37-47:43