Jena Griswold’s campaign for Colorado attorney general released its second self-commissioned poll in under a year on May 5, showing the term-limited secretary of state leading a four-way Democratic primary with 46% support — while her opponents called the numbers a campaign document designed to mask weakness rather than demonstrate strength.
The poll, conducted by Democratic firm Global Strategy Group and paid for by her campaign, surveyed 800 likely Democratic primary voters. Seligman and Dougherty each registered 7%, Doshi at 5%, with 35% still undecided. The first version of the poll, released in June 2025 by the same firm, showed Griswold at 42% with 42% undecided. Ten months of campaigning moved her four points while her opponents’ numbers, by her own pollster’s account, had not moved in any meaningful way.
Seligman’s campaign called the May release “political theater” and “a plea for help,” noting that more than half of Democratic primary voters in Griswold’s own poll are not choosing her.
The poll’s release follows a difficult stretch. In March, Griswold drew sustained criticism after 9News reported she had not argued a case before the United States Supreme Court despite claiming on the campaign trail that she had. She was a party to Trump v. Anderson — the case about whether Trump could appear on Colorado’s 2024 ballot — but that case was argued by Colorado Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson, with briefs filed by the office of Attorney General Phil Weiser. Independent legal experts called the statement inaccurate. Dougherty ran a TV ad demanding she retract the claim. Her campaign acknowledged she did not personally argue the case.
At the Colorado Democratic Party assembly in Pueblo weeks later, Griswold took 41.8% of the delegate vote, with Seligman finishing a close second at 40.6% and Dougherty receiving 18%. A 1.2-point margin over a progressive challenger is the assembly result her campaign’s poll is now working to reframe.
Mail ballots go to military and overseas voters within days. In-state ballots follow in the second week of June, due back to county clerks by June 30.
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