Four candidates are running in the Republican primary for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District on June 28, 2022. The state gained an eighth congressional district following the 2020 census. Three officeholders and a veteran comprise the candidate field.
Tyler Allcorn is a former Green Beret. Allcorn refers to his experience as a Green Beret and emigrating from Canada when he was nine, naming national security and border security as priorities, along with reducing government spending.
Barbara Kirkmeyer began serving in the state Senate in 2021 and was on the Weld County Commission before that. Kirkmeyer said she passed “17 bills to promote economic and personal freedom and improve Coloradans’ safety and quality of life” in the state Senate and that she left Weld County as “Colorado’s only large, debt-free county.”
