A month into the general election race in Colorado, recent polls paint a picture of voter attitudes and the competitiveness of a pair of key congressional races.
The polls, all from different firms, help paint a picture of where Colorado voters stand about three months before the November 3 general election.
The polls don't give a complete overview of where things stand. Statewide offices have not been tested publicly yet, nor has one of the closest watched congressional battles in the country, the 8th District held by Gabe Evans, a Republican. And polls are just a snapshot in time, not a prediction of where things will stand in November. But the partial picture is still informative with the midterms on the horizon.
Civiqs, which offers regular updates from its online surveys, pegged approval in Colorado of Trump's job performance at 31%, with disapproval at 64% on July 30 (4% said they neither approved nor disapproved).
Drew Linzer, the director of Civiqs, previously told the USA TODAY Network the firm uses advanced and proprietary modeling to develop results from online surveys of around 200 to 250 registered voters daily across the country. Voters in Colorado and other states are represented in the sample "proportional to the sizes of those states in the US population." Those results are part of the process used in calculating Trump's approval rating in each state.
A Keating Research poll conducted for Dwayne Romero, the Democratic challenger, found incumbent Republican Jeff Hurd leading Romero 45% to 44%.
A memo showed the poll sampled 500 likely voters from July 21-23 and has a margin of error of +/- 4.4%.
Hurd won his first term in 2024. The 3rd District stretches from the Western Slope to southeastern Colorado.
A poll by Global Strategy Group for challenger Jessica Killin, a Democrat, found her trailing incumbent Republican Jeff Crank 45% to 44%.
The poll surveyed 450 likely 2026 voters between July 16 and July 21 and has a margin of error of +/- 4.6% .
Crank is in his second term, having defeated Democrat River Gassen in 2024. The 5th District is centered on Colorado Springs and sits entirely in El Paso County.
The nonpartisan Colorado Polling Institute, in advance of the state's 150th birthday, surveyed 655 registered Colorado voters to try to identify what matters to them.
It found some common ground, including strong pride in Colorado, support for protecting nature and "optimism about the state's future despite ongoing challenges."
Nearly every voter (98%) said protecting Colorado's natural resources was important to the Colorado way of life, according to the CPI.
More than four in five voters said they are proud to be Coloradans, and three out of four said they were proud to be Americans.
Nate Trela covers trending news in Colorado and Utah for the USA TODAY Network, with an emphasis on consumer finance, legal issues and state laws.
This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: See Trump approval rate, first general election polls in Colorado