Gabe Evans Delivering Results, Dems Fight in Messy Primary
Congressman Gabe Evans continues to deliver commonsense wins for hardworking Coloradans.
“Congressman Gabe Evans continues to find solutions for hardworking Coloradans by cutting red tape, boosting energy production, and stopping the flow of drugs into America. While Democrats race to the left to appease their radical base in a messy primary, Evans remains focused on putting the people of Colorado first.” – NRCC Spokesman Zach Bannon
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Gabe Evans pushes to cut red tape, boost energy and build bipartisan solutions
Berthoud Weekly Surveyor
Joan Cullen
May 6, 2026
Building productive relationships, bolstering American energy dominance and eliminating the “stranglehold” regulations on the U.S. economy. Those are the goals of freshman Republican Congressman Gabe Evans, Colorado’s representative of the 8th congressional district (CD8), which includes Berthoud, during his first term in Congress.
For Evans, there’s a simple rule to follow in the People’s House: “You have to do the people’s work, or they’ll throw you out,” he said. Evans went to Washington, D.C., with that mindset and a plan to work in good faith with his congressional colleagues in both parties, to help break the gridlock that has become so familiar in the nation’s capital.
“Bipartisan solutions are more durable, because if both sides had a stake in building it, neither side is going to tear it down when they get back into power,” he said. Evans joined the Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan group “organized to get to ‘yes’ to help solve some of our country’s most pressing challenges,” soon after joining Congress.
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“Energy is the beating heart of the 8th District,” Evans said.
To illustrate his point, he provided a litany of examples. One in two wind generators in the nation is made in my district in a plant that’s down in Brighton. Blades are manufactured just outside my district in Windsor, Colorado. Some of the largest solar projects in the country are happening in my district,” Evans explained. “I have one of the last, all-U.S.-sourced battery manufacturers in the country.”
“We truly are an all-of-the-above energy district, so I don’t persecute any form of energy. As long as that energy is safe, affordable and reliable—then we need it all.” Republican lawmakers like Evans see fossil fuels as a necessity. “We have 4% of U.S. crude oil produced up in the northern part of Weld County, and the refineries in the south produce a third to a half of the daily fuels that Colorado uses.”
Energy plays a vital part in the life of CD8, which is what inspired Evans to engage in an ambitious pursuit to gain a spot on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, something no freshman lawmaker had achieved in 14 years.
Despite the odds, Evans worked on building relationships and making his case to the Republican Steering Committee, which is composed of senior House members and is the body that makes committee assignments. His efforts paid off when he was selected to serve on the committee.
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Turning back to CD8, Evans said he stays in close contact with his constituents through meetings, both in-district and from Washington, D.C. According to his staff, Evans “has done over 240 in-person meetings, roundtables, town halls, coffees with constituents and site tours in Colorado.” He has also held over 250 meetings with Coloradans in Washington, D.C., while his staff members have taken more than 2,000 meetings on his behalf.
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His narrow victory over Yadira Caraveo in 2024 made him the only Republican to win over an incumbent Democrat in a blue state that election cycle. “The left is going to come after me with everything they’ve got. But I have no problem standing on my record and highlighting theirs,” Evans said.
He also pointed out that he has no Republican primary challenger. Meanwhile, Democrats are involved in “a messy primary,” as Evans described it.
“The Democrats are in the middle of their own little civil war right now, where they’re trying to see who can go the farthest to the left, and who can embrace the most ridiculous socialist ideas,” he remarked. “I’m just going to continue to do the work that my constituents sent me to Washington, D.C., to do.”