Sens. Cory Gardner and Steve Daines, two of the chamber’s most endangered Republicans, are touting their leadership in advancing a major bipartisan conservation bill, which is expected to get a vote soon. The legislation could be a critical asset to help them hold onto their seats.
“The far-left environmental groups that have attacked me for the last 10 years are not going to change their mind, but it’s very difficult to say I don’t support public lands when I helped pass the most significant public lands package going back to Teddy Roosevelt,” said Gardner, an incumbent senator from Colorado who will likely face off in the general election against former Gov. John Hickenlooper, in an interview with the Washington Examiner. (Hickenlooper still faces a June 30 primary, in which he is a heavy favorite.)
