Combustible issues drive narrative in the battle for Colorado's 7th Congressional District

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Pelosi in terms of big government policies and increased government spending."
48% : Colorado lawmakers this past spring passed a bill safeguarding abortion for women in the state.
43% : "I think that polling indicates that most Coloradans don't support late-term abortion or abortion up to the day of birth...
42% : Abortion, he said, is a "states' rights issue" and that the U.S. Supreme Court, by giving that purview to the states, got it right with its June 24 Dobbs ruling.
40% : That's where Aadland, who did tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, hopes to find voters who may feel Democrats' recent efforts to push criminal justice reform have gone too far -- creating a perception that criminals get more consideration than victims of crime.
40% :Aadland said his opponents' attacks on his positions on abortion and the presidential election two years ago are predictable and desperate.
38% :Aadland said he opposes abortion except in the cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother.
34% : The battle for Colorado's 7th Congressional District is being fought across familiar and combustible political fault lines -- abortion, inflation, election integrity and crime -- as voters centered in Denver's western suburbs prepare to choose a new representative in Washington for the first time in 16 years.
34% :Pettersen calls Aadland "dangerously extreme" on abortion, an issue that Craig Hughes, a Democratic consultant with Hilltop Public Solutions, said could make the difference in the 7th.

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