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A couple at last weekend\u2019s Thorntonfest approached Manny Rutinel, a contender in the state\u2019s most cutthroat congressional race, with one question on their minds.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhere do you stand in regard to ICE?\u201d the woman asked, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

Rutinel, who was pressing the flesh on a hot, sunny afternoon\u00a0in Thornton\u2019s Carpenter Park, was more than ready with an answer. President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration policies and crackdown on people living in the country illegally have provided reliable talking points for the 31-year-old state representative from Commerce City.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re terrorizing Latino immigrants,\u201d Rutinel, whose mother immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic, told the couple. \u201cIt\u2019s personal for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearly 24 hours earlier and about seven miles away, Shannon Bird \u2014 the other Democrat running in the 8th Congressional District \u2014 was going door to door in the Sherrelwood neighborhood in Adams County. The former state representative carried a stack of campaign flyers emblazoned with the words: \u201cFight Trump. Stop ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bird, 57, and Rutinel are facing off in the Democratic primary on June 30. They\u2019re each hoping to go to battle this November with Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans to represent the 8th District, which largely covers suburbs and farm fields across parts of three counties north of Denver.<\/p>\n

The race revolves around the familiar issues Democrats have been bringing up since Trump regained the White House last year: immigration, the cost of living and the environment. But Bird and Rutinel, separated in age by 26 years, say they bring their own skill sets and perspectives to a district that has landed in the national spotlight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is where you find out where people are at \u2014 what they\u2019re all about,\u201d said Bird, as a campaign aide used a smartphone to shoot footage of her walking along Douglas Drive. \u201cI know the community \u2014 I have an authentic connection to the people in this community. To win, people have to know you care about them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Several people who opened their doors on that hot Friday afternoon pledged their vote to Bird, including 80-year-old Patricia Hall, who has lived in her Albert Court house since 1972.<\/p>\n

For Hall, it comes down to Bird\u2019s longevity in the district \u2014 a quarter-century of volunteering for Adams 12 Five Star Schools and serving on the Westminster City Council and at the state Capitol for the better part of two terms.<\/p>\n

Rutinel has lived in Adams County for five years. Bird has lived in Westminster for 25 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s been out talking to the people,\u201d said Hall, who worried about Colorado\u2019s experience deficit in the nation\u2019s capital should U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet be elected Colorado governor this fall. \u201cWe gotta get some of the experience back in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While the candidates are putting their feet to the ground to talk to voters, the much bigger outreach effort is happening on television and online. Between fundraising by both campaigns and a gush of spending by outside groups, the 8th Congressional District primary has turned into an expensive affair.<\/p>\n

Bird and Rutinel together have raised more than $5 million, and outside groups have reported independent spending totaling nearly $5.8 million in the primary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 8th District is still the race to watch,\u201d said Robert Preuhs, a political science professor at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.<\/p>\n

The district, Colorado\u2019s newest, covers Denver\u2019s northern suburbs and the agricultural land and oil fields stretching to Greeley. It could play a crucial role in determining control of a closely divided Congress in 2027, given its ultra-competitive political breakdown \u2014 a dynamic that has sent representatives from both major parties to Washington in less than four years.<\/p>\n

Until recently, the Democratic primary was a three-person contest. But in late May, former Marine Evan Munsing called it quits. He did not immediately endorse anyone in the race.<\/p>\n

With an animated \u2014 and often angry \u2014 Democratic voting base in this election cycle, Preuhs said such angst could play in favor of a relative newcomer to the district, like Rutinel, who has tried to push a more left-leaning\u00a0message on the trail.<\/p>\n

\u201cVoters are really looking for something different,\u201d the professor said. \u201cThey\u2019re seeking that candidate that can push back on ICE. I think he has a natural tie and attraction to Latinos in the district.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Latino factor and big outside money<\/h4>\n

The 8th District is Colorado\u2019s most heavily Latino, with , according to data from the 2021 Colorado redistricting effort.\u00a0The Hispanic vote was thought to be a critical part of former U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo\u2019s victory in 2022 over state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, according to an exit poll conducted during the election.<\/p>\n

In late April, the Latino Victory Project pledged a \u201csix-figure, primary election\u201d TV blitz on behalf of Rutinel, who it said \u201cwill protect our communities from MAGA\u2019s extremist policies,\u201d referring to Trump\u2019s coalition. The progressive advocacy group spends in support of Latino candidates.<\/p>\n

Since then, the group \u2014 and its political action committee, the Latino Victory Fund \u2014 have ramped up their spending, reporting nearly $1.9 million in independent expenditures in support of Rutinel or opposing Bird, according to Federal Election Commission records. Another Latino-supporting group, SOMOS PAC, has reported spending nearly $898,000 to help Rutinel.<\/p>\n

Those amounts are part of nearly $4.1 million spent by outside groups on ads, mailers and other activities in support of Rutinel or opposing Bird as of Friday. That sum includes $949,000 spent by You Can Push Back, a super PAC tied to California tech billionaire Chris Larsen that lauds Rutinel\u2019s sponsorship of Colorado artificial intelligence regulations.<\/p>\n

Less outside money \u2014 $1.7 million, according to FEC filings \u2014 has been spent to help Bird, either in support of her or opposing Rutinel. About $1.3 million of that has come from Women Vote, a super PAC associated with Emily\u2019s List, which supports women running for office.<\/p>\n

In direct contributions, Rutinel holds a distinct money advantage over Bird, having raised nearly twice as much as she has \u2014 around $3.5 million to about $1.8 million. Just over two weeks from the primary election, their ads \u2014 and those bought by outside groups \u2014 have become fixtures on metro Denver TV screens.<\/p>\n

Yazmin Torres, who owns the Neveria La Unica food truck, says she connects with Rutinel, a fluent Spanish speaker raised by a single mother. The candidate paid her a visit at Thorntonfest last weekend and she thanked him for his work on a 2025 bill that cuts red tape for food truck operators.<\/p>\n

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As a single mom herself, Torres said she felt a kinship with Rutinel. She also wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer. Rutinel earned his law degree from Yale University.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dream is to go to law school, so he\u2019s an inspiration to do that,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have someone to represent us.\u201d<\/p>\n

But securing the Latino vote in the district is no guarantee of victory. In 2024, the showed a strong preference among Latino voters for Caraveo over Evans \u2014 by more than 20% \u2014 but Evans, who is also Latino, prevailed in that contest.<\/p>\n

Bird, an attorney before getting into politics, has her own story of growing up with a single mother. She often recounts that her family stayed afloat by relying on tips from her grandmother\u2019s casino dealer job in Reno, Nevada. Those are the kinds of economic struggles she hears from potential constituents while knocking on doors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe high cost of living \u2014 and now with the Iran war \u2014 the cost of gas,\u201d Bird said. \u201cAnd those energy costs spread throughout the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her opponent\u2019s decision to support a state budget this year that included cuts to Medicaid has become one of Bird\u2019s campaign attack lines. At a late May candidate forum in Greeley, she told Rutinel and the audience that she would \u201cabsolutely not have voted to cut Medicaid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should have fought to use the rainy day fund to hold off the worst of these cuts,\u201d Bird said in an interview with The Denver Post. \u201cBoth Gabe Evans and Manny Rutinel believe that cutting Medicaid is a way to pass a budget.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rutinel dismisses Bird\u2019s allegations, saying he tried to save Medicaid funds in the Colorado budget but was unable to marshal the support amongst his colleagues to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did the work to bring amendments to dip into the reserves further,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rutinel said he grew up on Medicaid, so he knows its importance firsthand.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaving Medicaid is personal for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In turn, Rutinel regularly critiques Bird\u2019s vote against a 2025 bill in the state House that aimed to further curtail federal immigration authorities\u2019 access to public spaces in Colorado, from government buildings to libraries to public schools. He said he is \u201cseverely disappointed that Shannon Bird was the only House Democrat to vote against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s trying to pull a fast one,\u201d Rutinel told folks hiding from the sun at the covered Brighton Writers Group booth at Thorntonfest. \u201cWe need to be fighting for the people who are struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voters in the 8th District, he said, may have wanted more oversight at the southern border than what former President Joe Biden provided, but they don\u2019t want the chaotic \u2014 and sometimes violent \u2014 mass deportation agenda of this president.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople tell me Donald Trump and Gabe Evans were going to go after the criminals \u2014 and they\u2019re going after the grandmas,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople are telling me they feel lied to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plenty of agreement<\/h4>\n

Bird calls Rutinel\u2019s accusation on the ICE bill apocryphal. She said her \u201cno\u201d vote on Senate Bill 276 happened during a committee hearing on the bill, which she said needed improvement before going to a floor vote in the House.<\/p>\n

Bird said she regrets being absent the day the bill came up for a floor vote in the House a few weeks later \u2014 a missed vote she blames on a family medical emergency.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was one of the few votes I missed, and I regret that,\u201d Bird told The Post earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Rutinel, she said, has been using that bill to mischaracterize her position on ICE and Trump\u2019s immigration policy. She says she has the only comprehensive plan to overhaul ICE, with requirements for body-worn cameras and officers who are better vetted and trained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Manny has a record he can\u2019t defend,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Immigration will prove an important issue in the 8th Congressional District, said Preuhs, the political science professor. Though ICE\u2019s footprint in Colorado has been lighter than in other American cities, the issue is never far from a district with so many Latinos.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have a Democratic voting constituency that is adamantly against Trump and they\u2019re looking for a strong advocate for their position,\u201d Preuhs said.<\/p>\n

But if the forum in Greeley last month showed anything, it\u2019s that the two Democrats running for the nomination agree on much \u2014 including opposition to a federal ban on hydraulic fracturing to extract oil, support for a ban on oil and gas leases on federal land, and support for a boost in the federal minimum wage.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Rutinel has been on the defensive after the Colorado Sun reported\u00a0that he had reversed or softened past positions in support of a fracking ban, cancellation of student debt and a single-payer healthcare system. His campaign pushed back on some of the outlet\u2019s characterizations.<\/p>\n

The 8th Congressional District partially lies in Weld County, which is Colorado\u2019s most prolific producer of oil and gas.\u00a0Agriculture is also a big presence in the district, and both Bird and Rutinel have slammed Trump\u2019s tariffs, many of which were overturned in February by the Supreme Court, as unfriendly to farmers.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress needs to pass legislation to make it clear who has the power to tariff,\u201d Bird told The Post.<\/p>\n

Rutinel, who was an economist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before getting into politics, was equally tough on the body he is vying to join when it comes to preserving its power of the purse.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we had a willingness from Congress to pull back these corrupt and chaotic tariff policies, we could bring down prices,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s putting so many of the family farms and ranchers at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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