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BY NINA JOSS AND MCKENNA HARFORD COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
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everal hours before
the restaurant opened one Wednesday in April, Maggiano’s Little Italy was already bustling with people sipping coffee and filling their plates with waffles and eggs. It was the monthly gathering of the Arapahoe County Republican Breakfast Club. At the Denver Tech Center restaurant, leaders and neighbors build community and discuss issues important to the GOP in the metro area and across Colorado. At this meeting, talk turned to the Republican Party’s
identity crisis. “It’s very clear that, even in this room of good friends, we are still very deeply divided,” Arapahoe County GOP Chair Anne Rowland said to the group. “In spite of that, if we want to win, we need to keep having conversations in a positive way and not to tear one another down.” Rowland’s statement highlighted an idea that, despite not being on any official agenda for the meeting, was on everyone’s minds: What do Republicans need to do to win elections? In 2022, Democrats edged SEE RED, P6
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