How Donald Trump's presidency may impact 10 areas that Coloradans care about most

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : And they will back redoubled enforcement of immigration laws they believe have been ignored.
56% : Colorado voted overwhelmingly for Biden during the 2020 election, while Alabama backed Trump by a large margin.
53% : The yearslong tug-of-war over the military base appeared to be far from over after a Republican Alabama congressman, Mike Rogers, told a Mobile radio station last week that Trump committed on the campaign trail to reverse President Joe Biden's 2023 decision to permanently place the headquarters in Colorado Springs and that he was confident Trump would follow through on the promise within his first week of office.
52% : Asked at a debate what he plans to do, Trump said only that he has "concepts of a plan.
49% : But if Trump follows recommendations in the 922-page Project 2025 "Mandate for Leadership" presidential transition proposal, there will be some big shifts.
49% : "Trump hasn't yet landed on whom he'll choose for his secretary of agriculture, with around 15 options in the mix as of Nov. 13.
48% : Negotiations over the new rules will overlap with leadership changes in Washington, D.C., when Trump steps back into office.
46% : For months while on the campaign trail, Republican leaders -- including Trump -- have been talking about making big changes to the U.S. health insurance system.
44% : That could hobble smaller producers, especially if Trump fulfills his promise to impose huge tariffs "on everyone and, most detrimentally, Mexico and Japan," said Larry Lempka, whose Los Rios Farm along the Little Thompson River in Larimer County has been in his family for more than 60 years.
43% : Colorado's fight to keep Space Command will be an "uphill battle," said former Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers, who alongside the state's top political leaders vowed last week to push back on any effort by Trump to move its headquarters from Colorado Springs to Alabama.
36% : "I anticipate legal action over 79."But some national abortion opponents still hold out hope that Trump will take other measures to curb or even outlaw the procedure.
34% : During his first administration, Trump "threw incredible amounts of money into USDA and back at the farmers," Lempka added.
30% : (The 14-year-old law is, of course, also known as Obamacare, given that it was passed during the Barack Obama administration.)
30% : The lead author on the Project 2025 plan for the Interior Department was William Perry Pendley, a conservative Evergreen-based lawyer who briefly led the Bureau of Land Management under Trump in 2020.
28% : "During the presidential campaign, Trump said he would veto a national abortion ban if Congress passed it because a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade sent the issue back to the states.
15% : Trump has said that millions of immigrants across the country stand to be deported and that immigrant roundups will begin with "Operation Aurora," a sweep in the Colorado city that Trump has falsely claimed been taken over by criminal immigrant gangs.
7% : It's just not clear what those changes will be or how they would impact Colorado.Declaring that "Obamacare sucks," Trump has vowed to replace the Affordable Care Act, but he has also at other times expressed openness to keeping it.

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