I’m watching the Denver News 9 election results, and it’s pretty clear that DSA and progressive candidates are doing well.

The big race is DSA candidate Melat Kiros beating Diana DeGette in the CO-1 primary. DeGette was a do-nothing incumbent who ran a lazy incumbent campaign against a good challenger and lost. Kyle Clark, the News 9 anchor, pointed out that a bunch of Democrats in the city were waiting for DeGette to retire so they could politely run for DeGette’s seat. Sadly, no. Now they’ll have to beat an incumbent, because Kiros is certain to win.

John Hickenlooper beat Senadora Julie Gonzales, who, frankly, missed an opportunity. There was a lot of last-minute speculation by the national press about Gonzales’ chances, but I think the Colorado readers here thought her campaign was fairly weak.

Phil Weiser beat Sen. Michael Bennet in the gubernatorial primary. Weiser is better than Bennet, though he’s no DSA member. He’s certainly far, far better than Jared Polis, which is a low bar indeed. Bennet will serve out his term in the Senate and he’ll miss the opportunity to appoint his successor, which was another reason not to vote for Bennet, if one was needed.

Jena Griswold, the current Secretary of State, won the AG primary where three other candidates split the vote. She’s not super popular among progressives. Amanda Gonzalez, who is the more progressive candidate, won the Secretary of State primary.

In CO-8, which is PVI EVEN, Manny Rutinel won. He’s a weak candidate. We’ll see what happens with him in a year when incumbent Republican Gabe Evans should be beatable.

A couple of state legislature seats went to the more progressive candidates.

In the Republican primaries, Victor Marx, the guy who claims to have saved thousands of women and children, is losing as of this writing.

There’s going to be a lot of breathless coverage of Kiros’ win today, but she’s a solid candidate. A D+29 district should be represented by someone with her beliefs who can fight.