Colorado Newsline

Unsuccessful candidate for Colorado governor Danielle Neuschwanger and her supporters engaged in a tense exchange that included physical threats with state GOP Chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown during the Republican Party’s state assembly on Saturday, according to interviews with witnesses and publicly available accounts.

Neuschwanger, a 34-year-old Colorado native and small business owner, was viewed as a top Republican governor candidate going into the assembly, which took place at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs. But she failed to secure at least 30% of the delegate support, knocking her out of contention.

Neuschwanger challenged that result. Echoing baseless claims that many Republicans have made about the 2020 presidential election, she suggested the GOP’s own count of delegate votes at the assembly was fraudulent....

The lawsuit claims that Lindell, along with his company MyPillow and his media platform Frankspeech, targeted Coomer as part of Lindell’s effort “to undermine faith in American democracy and enrich himself in the process.”

The lawsuit says Lindell based defamatory remarks about Coomer mainly on a single source, Joe Oltmann, an influential conservative Colorado podcast host and founder of the activist group FEC United. Oltmann originated a conspiracy theory about Dominion when he claimed that before the November 2020 election he infiltrated a conference call and heard a person he later claimed was Coomer say that he rigged the election against former President Donald Trump. This narrative was later amplified on national platforms, including through Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Frankspeech....

Heidi Ganahl, the best-known Republican candidate for Colorado governor, during a recent event with supporters endorsed the work of a Colorado-based conspiracy group that rejects the results of the 2020 election, according to a recording of her comments obtained by Newsline.

The event, a meet-and-greet in Durango, occurred on Nov. 18.

At one point she discussed elections and ways they purportedly might be compromised by “bad actors.” Then she mentioned the election conspiracy group U.S. Election Integrity Plan, referring to it by its abbreviation: “USIE, IE , EIP — I always mess up the acronym — there are a lot of great people working on this issue that would love to have you volunteer, get involved, and they are just doing great things.”...

A second Colorado county clerk signed on to a lawsuit filed by state Rep. Ron Hanks against Secretary of State Jena Griswold as part of an effort to conduct a third-party “audit” of the 2020 election in the state.

Elbert County Clerk Dallas Schroeder was added as a plaintiff in the lawsuit in an amended complaint entered a day after the initial complaint was filed in Denver District Court on Nov. 18.

The lawsuit claims that election system software used in Colorado’s 64 counties in 2020 was improperly certified, that the secretary of state’s office illegally destroyed election records, and that Griswold exceeded her authority when in the summer she adopted emergency rules to prevent the kind of election audit then occurring in Arizona, which she deemed illegitimate....

Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and a leading election-conspiracy ally of former President Donald Trump, has given financial support to a new nationwide organization devoted to “election integrity," according to Shawn Smith, a prominent Colorado Springs-based activist and apparent leader of the organization.

Smith announced the launch of the organization, Cause of America, during an appearance Monday on “Bannon's War Room," hosted by former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon and carried on Lindell's media platform frankspeech.com.

“Cause of America — it's a new nonprofit that's started out," Smith told Bannon. “Mike Lindell is kind of the angel investor, and the purpose of Cause of America is to enable the grassroots organizations across the country who are doing election integrity."...