GOP Poll finds unaffiliated voters in Colorado don’t like GOP or Trump

Colorado’s unaffiliated voters turned out for last week’s election in record numbers and turned their backs on Republicans by wide margins, a survey conducted by a GOP polling firm shows.

What’s more, President Donald Trump’s low approval rating among unaffiliated voters — who outnumber Colorado’s registered Democrats and Republicans — appears to have dragged down Republican candidates, who suffered historic losses up and down the ballot.

Pollster David Flaherty, whose Louisville-based Magellan Strategies surveyed unaffiliated voters after the election, said the poll’s findings and the election results “can only be described as extraordinary … because in the past 20 years, never has one political party been so overwhelmingly rejected at every level of representative government by the electorate.”

The scale of the Democrats’ win in Colorado is hard to overstate: For the first time since 1938, the party will control every statewide elected office and both chambers of the General Assembly.

Asked whether they would support Trump or a Democratic candidate for president in 2020, 55 percent picked an unnamed Democrat, and 23 percent went with Trump.