It took about 10 minutes after Colorado polls closed for the Associated Press to declare that Donald Trump had won the state's Republican Primary, which is about as quick as those calls are ever made.
While Trump opponent Nikki Haley fielded losses across the map on Super Tuesday (except in Vermont), she did have something to celebrate here: It's looking like she won Denver.
Denver Elections' results show Haley of Trump ahead by about 4,000 votes, or 10 percent.
In total, almost 117,000 Denverites cast a ballot on Tuesday, according to Denver Elections' current tally, though it's important to note that these are all unofficial results and won't be certified for a little while longer.
Mikayla Ortega, Denver Elections' spokesperson, said 18,000 ballots (about 13 percent of all votes in both elections) still need to be counted. We'll update these charts as new results roll in.
President Joe Biden, who also secured Colorado in record time, won Denver by a landslide.
So far, an effort to vote for a new "noncommitted delegate" option to protest Biden's approach to Israel's war in the Gaza Strip has only garnered 7,000 votes, or 10 percent of those cast in the Democratic Primary.
Turnout overall was wildly low, Ortega told us, with about 31% of all registered voters casting ballots compared to 56% in 2020.
She said election workers had a more chill evening on Tuesday than they were used to in past election cycles.
"It's substantial," she said of the participation drop, adding "we have seen that across the state. It's not just Denver."
This primary was a departure from four years ago, when Trump earned more than 85% of the vote in the 2020 Republican Primary (Bernie Sanders won Denver that year in the Dems' race). But red votes don't usually move the needle in this town; in the 2020 general election, Trump carried zero precincts here.
On Wednesday morning, Haley dropped out of the race, meaning she'll become neither president of the United States or of Denver this time around.
Also, we fact checked just to be sure: Denver does not have a president.
