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Colorado's 2nd District

Joe Neguse (D)vsKelley Dennison (R)

incumbent running · Lean: D+20 · Incumbent: Joe Neguse (D)

99 in 100

Joe Neguse favored>99%

All but certain for Joe Neguse: a 100 percent chance of winning. No public polls yet.

  • Seat:Incumbent running
  • Lean:D+20
  • Incumbent:Joe Neguse (D)
  • District:2 of 8 in Colorado
  • Odds:Neguse >99%
  • Margin:Neguse +49.5, give or take 6.2
  • Polls:none yet, running on the fundamentals
  • Generic ballot:D+8.2
  • T-minus:16 days

▸ Margin // Uncertainty

Neguse +49.5

The model's best guess at the final margin, give or take 6.2 points. Polls have missed by more than that before.

Projected margin
Neguse +49.5
Uncertainty
6.2 points, one standard deviation
Likely range
Neguse +41.6 to Neguse +57.4 (80 percent)
Poll average
No polls
Starting point
Neguse +49.5 before any polls

Margins read Democrat minus Republican: Neguse ahead is positive, Dennison ahead is negative.

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▸ Polls // None yet

No public polls here. The number comes from the district lean (D+20, worth 34.8 points to the Democrat), the incumbent (Joe Neguse, running again, worth 4.8 points), and the national environment (generic ballot D+8.2, which the model reads as a 9.9 point Democratic tilt after discounting it). Together they give a projected margin of Neguse +49.5 with an uncertainty of 6.2 points.

▸ Race file // The facts

The seat
Joe Neguse (D), running for another term.
On the ballot
Joe Neguse (D, incumbent) vs Kelley Dennison (R)
Last time
2024: Democrat 68.4, Republican 28.9. Neguse by 39.5.
President
2024, statewide: Trump 43.1, Harris 54.1. Harris by 11.0.
Lean
D+20 by the Cook partisan index

Facts from Ballotpedia and Wikipedia, in our words. The district on Ballotpedia ↗

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