Donald Trump’s Colorado ground game picked up key players — some well-known in Republican circles — to oversee respective issue and advocacy groups this week.
While the list does not include former governors or current office-holders, whom presidential campaigns often turn to, they do include such Colorado leaders as former state Senate President John Andrews and former Sen. Greg Brophy, a former GOP gubernatorial candidate who previously for U.S. Rep. Ken Buck.
Brophy, a fourth-generation Eastern Plains farmer, will lead Trump’s Agricultural Coalition. Andrews, who recently retired as director the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, will lead the campaign’s Colorado Faith Coalition. “These leaders are contributing valuable time and energy in order to advance Mr. Trump’s conservative message to a range of important groups and organizations throughout the state,” Patrick Davis, Trump’s Colorado director, said in a statement. “With their help, Coloradans will reject the third Obama term that Hillary Clinton represents and will vote for change in November.”
The rest of the new Trump team members are:
- Hispanics for Trump: Former U.S,. Senate candidates Jerry Natividad and Floyd Trujillo.
- African-Americans for Trump: , Colorado GOP vice chairman and founder and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives and American Conservatives of Color.
- Women for Trump: Former state Rep. B.J. Nikkel and Lilly Nunez, a former Colorado committeewoman to the Republican National Convention.
- Millennials for Trump: Political blogger Rachel Blaha Keane and Colorado State University Student student Joel Crank.
- Economic Coalition: Paul Prentice, an economics and business professor at Colorado Technical University; author and , president of the Western Energy Alliance.
- Energy Coalition: Prentice and , chairman CEO of Whiting Petroleum Corp.
- Military Coalition: Retired Air Force Gen. .
- Education/School Choice Coalition: Former University of Colorado Regent and former Jefferson County school board member .
- Sportsmen Coalition: , regional director of BigGame Forever,
- Recruiters for Trump’s coalitions will be political analyst and former El Paso County treasurer Bob Balink and former state Senate candidate Barb Neville, and mother of state Rep. Patrick Neville.
“Neville, who has assisted in multiple political races, will also oversee the Trump ground-troop movement throughout Colorado,” the Trump campaign said in a news release.
