Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat and longtime Hillary Clinton supporter, is now expressing doubt about his party’s front-runner.
Hickenlooper, who won a closely contested re-election fight last year, said the 2016 election is looking “kind of grim, to be blunt.” He also told the Denver Post that “I don’t know where this whole thing is going to go in terms of her … [e-mail] server and whether there is something in there that is really going to turn out to have broken the law — which I think would be the death knell.”
Hickenlooper has close political ties with the Clintons and in August his former campaign manager Brad Komar, returned to Colorado to lead the former secretary of state’s campaign in the state ahead of the March caucus.
Hickenlooper is the second prominent Colorado Democrat to shy away from the former secretary of state in the past week. Former Gov. Richard Lamm, also a Clinton supporter, said in an interview that he believes “there’s a one-in-three chance that something worse does happen” to cost Clinton the nomination.
While Hickenlooper is a staunch Democrat, he warned Coloradans not to rule Donald Trump out, as anyone could rise to power. He then compared Trump’s candidacy to that of actor-turned-politician President Ronald Reagan.
“So I don’t ever rule Trump out,” he added. “Like the rest of you, I don’t agree with what he is saying — and it makes my blood run cold. I’m very fearful.”
