When Major League Baseball decided to move the All-Star Game to Denver, it was a moment of celebration for many Colorado politicos.
MLB had pulled the game from Atlanta in response to criticism of Georgia’s new voting law. The choice of Coors Field as a new site was another validation of Colorado’s reputation for having some of the nation’s most accessible and secure elections.
But the move quickly met a new conservative talking point: the states aren’t that different, Republican lawmakers claimed. Gov. Brian Kemp argued on Fox News that the change “doesn’t make a whole lot of sense” because Colorado has equally restrictive laws.
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