Cory Gardner

Cory Gardner (2015)

Cory Gardner (* 22. August 1974 in Yuma , Yuma County , Colorado ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He has represented the state of Colorado in the US Senate since 2015 . He was previously a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 .

Career

Cory Gardner attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins until 1997 . He then studied law at the University of Colorado at Boulder until 2001 . Between 2002 and 2005 he worked for US Senator Wayne Allard .

Gardner began his own political career as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives , of which he was a member from 2005 to 2010. There he was a member of the Education Committee, the Agriculture Committee and the Legislative Council .

In the 2010 election , Gardner was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth congressional constituency of Colorado , where he succeeded the previously defeated Democrat Betsy Markey on January 3, 2011 . In the 2012 election , Gardner prevailed with 58 to 37 percent of the vote against the Democrat Brandon Shaffer. Gardner served on the House of Representatives on the Energy and Trade Committee and on three subcommittees.

After Gardner was speculated about running in the election for governor of Colorado in 2014 , he ran in the Senate election of the year against the former Democratic US Senator of Colorado, Mark Udall , and won with 48.2 to 46.3 percent of the vote, whereupon he replaced him on January 3, 2015 in the Senate. His mandate runs until January 3, 2021.

After strong wins by the Colorado Democrats in the November 2018 mid-term election, driven in particular by their strong result among non-partisan voters, Gardner is considered his party's most vulnerable Senate holder in the upcoming 2020 Senate election .

Positions

Inside the party, Gardner is a member of the conservative Republican Study Committee . In the 2014 election campaign, Gardner's competitor Udall addressed his earlier support for so-called personhood legislation - a piece of legislation that would have recognized every fertilized egg cell as a person and thus made every abortion a punishable death. When he ran for the Senate, Gardner changed his mind and achieved higher and higher approval ratings over the course of the election campaign.

Web links

Commons : Cory Gardner  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Senate website (English)
• Cory Gardner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Cory Gardner in nndb (English)
• Gardner, Cory. In: Our Campaigns (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nic Garcia: Colorado Republicans' conundrum: Donald Trump and the unaffiliated voters who loathe him. In: Denver Post , November 11, 2018.
2. ^ Aaron Blake: Cory Gardner, and the limits of the personhood attack. In: The Washington Post , October 15, 2014.