ICYMI: Another Fact Check Delivers Blow to Phil Weiser’s Attacks on Michael Bennet

DENVER, CO — In case you missed it, CBS Colorado’s Shaun Boyd delivered a blow to Phil Weiser’s attacks on Michael in a reality check on his attack ad. While Phil tries to mislead voters about Michael’s record, the actual truth is that he voted against 95% of Donald Trump’s nominees, took them to task when they hurt Colorado, and stood up for Coloradans time and again.

At the same time, Boyd’s reality check confirmed what voters are hearing about Phil Weiser: when it mattered most, Phil was nowhere to be seen and only found his fight when he started running for higher office. Before he was running for Governor, Weiser joined fewer multi-state lawsuits against the Trump Administration than nearly every other Democratic AG in the country. Now, he’s at the top of the list. That’s not leadership, it’s political convenience.

This is the SECOND factcheck to call out Phil and his supporters’ lies. Last week, 9News’ Truth Check found another attack ad attempting to mislead voters about Michael’s record was “not accurate.” The Bennet for Governor campaign called on Weiser and his supporters to stop the lies, try to win on actual facts, and demand the ad be taken down. As more and more voters see political ads on their screens, Phil and his supporters should spend less time with the misleading political games voters hate and more time answering why he sat out so many fights.

Read more about the misleading ad against Bennet from CBS Colorado’s Reality Check:

• Ad Claim: “Michael Bennet voted for more of Trump’s cabinet than almost any other Senator.”

• This needs context. Bennet voted for 8 of President Trump’s 22 cabinet members, which is the same or less than 23% of his colleagues in the Democratic caucus.

• In all, the Senate has confirmed 427 Trump nominees, including judges, ambassadors, undersecretaries, and others. Bennet voted against 95% of them, something Weiser fails to mention, instead focusing on his vote for Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.

• AD CLAIM: “Attorney General Phil Weiser stopped her cuts to food assistance for 600,000 Coloradans, but Michael Bennet: ‘I voted for the Secretary of Agriculture…I stand by that vote.”

• Again, this needs context. First, a judge stopped the cuts to food assistance after 22 AGs, including Weiser, sued.

• Second, Bennet publicly condemned the cuts, calling the Secretary’s actions “a disgrace.”

Read more about the accurate ad criticizing Weiser’s record:

• AD CLAIM: “Before he ran for governor, Weiser joined fewer lawsuits against Trump than almost any other Democratic attorney general in the country.”

• That’s true. There were 85 multi-state lawsuits between 2019 when Weiser took office and 2021. He joined 27 of them, fewer than all but 2 other AGs.

• Since Weiser launched his gubernatorial campaign in January 2025, he’s filed or joined 65 lawsuits.