{"id":344178,"date":"2026-05-16T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-did-colorados-dem-governor-give-clemency-to-election-denier\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:00:09","slug":"why-did-colorados-dem-governor-give-clemency-to-election-denier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-did-colorados-dem-governor-give-clemency-to-election-denier\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Colorado&#8217;s Dem governor give clemency to election denier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/V2QK7KjJPDM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why did Colorado's Dem governor give clemency to election denier?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2QK7KjJPDM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Tina Peters, the Republican former election clerk imprisoned for crimes related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will receive clemency from Colorado\u2019s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and soon be released from custody, Polis exclusively told CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold \u2013 the Democratic election official who Peters admitted in her statement to Polis that she \u201cmisled\u201d in 2021 \u2013 said in a statement that Polis\u2019 commutation was an \u201caffront to democracy.\u201d Griswold also speaks with Collins.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 2020 election denier Tina Peters granted clemency<br \/>\n0:59 Kaitlan Collins speaks with Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO)<br \/>\n7:44 Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State, reacts to the Peters clemency grant<\/p>\n<p>Watch more CNN here: https:\/\/cnn.it\/4kh5RPe<\/p>\n<p>#Election #TinaPeters #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Peters, the Republican former election clerk imprisoned for crimes related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will receive clemency from Colorado\u2019s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and soon be released from custody, Polis exclusively told CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold \u2013 the Democratic election official who Peters admitted in her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[133307,129038,145608],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-344178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-peters","tag-republican","tag-tina"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why did Colorado&#039;s Dem governor give clemency to election denier? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why did Colorado&#039;s Dem governor give clemency to election denier? for free, here on News ISC. 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