Denver Democrat Andrés Carrera, a former political director for Mayor Mike Johnston, announced on Thursday that he's running to represent the city's Senate District 34, where incumbent state Sen. Julie Gonzales faces term limits after next year's election.

The 32-year-old son and grandson of Mexican immigrants and member of the LGBTQ+ community said he's running to expand economic opportunities for residents and to fight back against President Donald Trump's policies, which he characterized as "anti-American."

“I’m running because my family lived through what so many of our neighbors are still going through — rising rents, unaffordable cost of living and a government that too often ignores working people,” Carrera said in a statement. “It’s killing the American Dream for the janitors, up

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