'Select our battles': Two Dems blamed for giving blue state pro-Trump skew in Senate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : For example, Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona -- elected narrowly in a state that Trump won by more than 5 percentage points last year -- has voted with Republicans on almost 33% in 2025, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren of deep-blue Massachusetts has done so just 3% of the time.
47% : But in an era of nationally polarized politics, Trump has tanked the GOP's electoral fortunes in Colorado, and for now, a wide gap -- partly generational, partly ideological, but perhaps above all attitudinal -- has opened up between the state's two senators and many of its voters.
40% : Colorado and its moderate Senate duo, who have voted with Trump and their GOP colleagues roughly a quarter of the time while representing a state that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris by 11 percentage points in the 2024 election.
14% : But liberal and progressive activists have pressured Democratic senators, including U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper of Colorado, to do more to erect procedural hurdles, slow down Senate business and vote in blanket opposition to Trump nominees as a protest against the executive branch's unprecedented power grab.

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