Trisha Calvarese
Trisha Calvarese (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Colorado's 4th Congressional District. She declared candidacy for the Democratic primary scheduled on June 30, 2026.[source]
Biography
Trisha Calvarese graduated from Highlands Ranch High School. She earned a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University and has been affiliated with AFL-CIO.[1][2]
Elections
2026
See also: Colorado's 4th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The primary will occur on June 30, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. Additional general election candidates will be added here following the primary.
General election for U.S. House Colorado District 4
Wayne Thornton is running in the general election for U.S. House Colorado District 4 on November 3, 2026.
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Colorado District 4
Trisha Calvarese, Eileen Laubacher, John Padora Jr., and Jenna Preston are running in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Colorado District 4 on June 30, 2026.
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kurt Maddox (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Colorado District 4
Incumbent Lauren Boebert is running in the Republican primary for U.S. House Colorado District 4 on June 30, 2026.
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Endorsements
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2024
Regular election
See also: Colorado's 4th Congressional District election, 2024
Colorado's 4th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 25 Republican primary)
Colorado's 4th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 25 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Colorado District 4
Incumbent Lauren Boebert defeated Trisha Calvarese, Hannah Goodman, Frank Atwood, and Paul Fiorino in the general election for U.S. House Colorado District 4 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lauren Boebert (R) | 53.6 | 240,213 |
 | Trisha Calvarese (D) | 42.0 | 188,249 | |
 | Hannah Goodman (L) | 2.6 | 11,676 | |
 | Frank Atwood (Approval Voting Party) | 1.4 | 6,233 | |
 | Paul Fiorino (Unity Party) | 0.3 | 1,436 | |
| Total votes: 447,807 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Douglas Mangeris (L)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Colorado District 4
Trisha Calvarese defeated Ike McCorkle and John Padora Jr. in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Colorado District 4 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Trisha Calvarese | 45.2 | 22,756 |
 | Ike McCorkle | 41.1 | 20,723 | |
 | John Padora Jr. | 13.7 | 6,882 | |
| Total votes: 50,361 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Karen Breslin (D)
- Anil Saxena (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Colorado District 4
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Colorado District 4 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lauren Boebert | 43.7 | 54,605 |
 | Jerry Sonnenberg | 14.2 | 17,791 | |
 | Deborah Flora | 13.6 | 17,069 | |
 | Richard Holtorf | 10.7 | 13,387 | |
 | Michael Lynch | 10.7 | 13,357 | |
 | Peter Yu | 7.1 | 8,854 | |
| Total votes: 125,063 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ted Harvey (R)
- Ken Buck (R)
- Justin Schreiber (R)
- Chris Phelen (R)
- Floyd Trujillo (R)
- Trent Leisy (R)
- Mariel Bailey (R)
Endorsements
To view Calvarese's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here. Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Calvarese in this election.
Special election
See also: Colorado's 4th Congressional District special election, 2024
General election
Special general election for U.S. House Colorado District 4
Greg Lopez defeated Trisha Calvarese, Hannah Goodman, and Frank Atwood in the special general election for U.S. House Colorado District 4 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Greg Lopez (R) | 58.4 | 100,095 |
| Trisha Calvarese (D) | 34.4 | 59,013 | |
| Hannah Goodman (L) | 5.3 | 9,069 | |
| Frank Atwood (Approval Voting Party) | 1.9 | 3,225 | |
| Total votes: 171,402 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mark Elworth Jr. (Unaffiliated)
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2026
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2024
Regular election
Trisha Calvarese completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Calvarese's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- In 2023, Trisha Calvarese’s mom and dad both had cancer and passed within days of each other. She knows firsthand that seniors depend on the healthcare programs and benefits that we promised them. Trisha Calvarese will fight against any proposal that raises the retirement age or cuts Social Security and Medicare benefits.
- Trisha Calvarese believes that politicians should not interfere with a healthcare decision that should be left to a woman and her healthcare provider. As state after state bans abortion, Calvarese will fiercely oppose extremists who want to ban contraceptives, fertility treatments, and all abortions nationwide, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or when the life of the woman is at risk.
- Calvarese will work to create more opportunities for the people of Colorado’s 4th Congressional District to build their lives and support their families in the towns they love. Calvarese will support our farmers and ranchers and improve American competitiveness in manufacturing and technology to bring the jobs of tomorrow to the district and create more opportunities for working-class families close to home.
Former Congresswoman Betsy Markey
Former Congressman Ed Perlmutter
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser
State Senator Jessie Danielson
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Special election
Trisha Calvarese did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Calvarese’s campaign website stated the following:
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Access to Care Choice The ability for families to prosper begins with a woman's right to choose. The government has no place in that decision. Strong families depend on local and affordable access to reproductive care, maternal care, pre and post-natal, including compassionate miscarriage care, and mental health support. Care Thanks to Medicare, Trisha was able to move home and provide end-of-life care to both of her parents without going into debt to pay for care. Our seniors depend on Medicare benefits and Trisha will oppose any plan to cut Medicare, or the Affordable Care Act, which provides affordable healthcare to millions of Americans. In rural areas, she'll expand access to care by investing in, and saving our rural hospitals. Trisha will also work to lower prescription drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prices, and she'll support long overdue Investments to make childcare and eldercare accessible to everyone. Social Security Our seniors depend on their Social Security benefits, but rising costs are making it hard for many to keep up. Trisha will work to strengthen Social Security by increasing benefits to keep up with rising costs. Affordability Lowering Costs We need to foster robust local economies, re-shore and secure supply chains, and cultivate industries domestically rather than abroad. Lowering costs starts with our capacity to discover, invent, and make products locally. Trisha will work to invest in our local economy by removing barriers to start a small business. That means lowering start-up costs, increasing access to capital, providing resources for entrepreneurs and expanding rural broadband so that businesses have reliable access to internet. Trisha will work to stop price gouging by monopolies and corporations, by holding them accountable for practices that make the cost of living unsustainable for every-day Americans. Affordable Housing Housing is out of reach for far too many young families, and increasing property values are bringing new challenges with unexpected increases in property taxes and insurance, especially in District 4’s desirable communities and small towns. Trisha would work to expand resources to first time home buyers and ban hedge funds and other investment speculators from buying houses just to drive up costs. Homes should be for working people and families first, and investors and speculators last. Economic Security Crucial to America's national security is the economic stability of our families. Jobs One of the mot valuable assets you have is your job. We need more Family-supporting careers, pathways into the middle class and ladders up that meet people where they are, especially in the places that have been left out and overlooked. Trisha will work to secure investment in the industries of the future, and keep America on the cutting edge and cutting edge innovation. Those investments mean access to more high-paying jobs with training programs and apprenticeships built into our public education system. At the same time, Trisha will work to protect workers from being displaced or exploited by emerging technologies, support small businesses, family farms, and local entrepreneurial ventures. Education The labor apprenticeship model, where people can earn while they learn a skilled trade, is one of the oldest, most successful workforce training models in America. Trisha will work to make pathways universally available, that includes more opportunities that don't require a 4 year degree. Trisha will work to bolster access to learning and workforce training at community colleges which will enable more people to participate and help address the looming talent shortage in STEM. Colorado Resilience Colorado's ability to grow, conserve, and connect impacts the nation, our success is America's success. Water With temperatures rising, downstream states increasing need, and outside developers looking to profit without thinking of long-term solutions, we need a leader who will work to protect and conserve our residential communities and our growers. Agriculture The farm bill is an opportunity to ensure our ranchers and farmers have what they need to make a living. It's an opportunity to get creative as we collectively solve major challenges related to a changing climate. Infrastructure Strengthen the systems that connect us, like fast internet, reliable roads, safe rail, and renewable energy. Eastern Colorado is poised to become a world leader in large-scale energy transmission and storage. American Competitiveness We want the industries of the future and emerging technologies to be discovered, invented, and made in America, creating wide-spread opportunities in Colorado. Invent & Discover America ceded manufacturing leadership decades ago. Efforts are underway to re-shore U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. That's just one industry, there are opportunities and high-stakes across a spectrum of fields for the next generation of discovery and innovation. We want those innovations happening in our labs, foundries, and schools. If we don't invest to make it happen, we will fall behind and lose our ability to lead and shape the future. Trisha will fight to bring these opportunities, and good paying jobs back home and restore American Competitiveness. Make There is a looming global talent shortage in technologies critical to our national and economic security. There are millions of Americans who could contribute to our science and engineering enterprise but are missing, not for lack of ability, but for lack of accessible opportunities. Trisha will work to expand the geography of American innovation with more onramps that are accessible to everyone. [3] |
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| —Trisha Calvarese’s campaign website (2024)[4] | ||
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 7, 2024
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Trisha Calvarese," accessed September 26, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ TRISHA CALVARESE 4 CONGRESS, “Issues,” accessed June 17, 2024
