Glenn talks race, Christian conservatism before summit crowd
El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn spoke to several thousand people at the Western Conservative Summit Saturday night.
Glenn is riding a whirlwind tour following his victory in the GOP primary to become the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate.
Last year he had a booth at the convention but was not a main-stage speaker. At the time, he was the first Republican to enter the U.S. Senate race.
He weathered a brutal primary that at one point had more than a dozen other candidates in it. He was outspent and considered an underdog. He won by 13 points on Tuesday.
He was a celebrity at the Western Conservative Summit on Saturday.
Craig Silverman, a Colorado radio personality, called Glenn “an unstoppable force of nature,” and noted the dead-lifting champion could probably dead-lift Donald Trump.
Glenn didn’t change his tune at the convention.
“I’m an unapologetic Christian conservative,” Glenn said, before addressing race divisions in the U.S. “I was raised differently. I was raised in a military family. Both parents served.”
He said they imparted in him one thing: “Do not grow up with a chip on your shoulder.”
Glenn, who is black, graduated from Doherty High School and said he was easy to pick out in the class picture because “there weren’t a lot of us.”
But he said he was the class president, because his race didn’t matter.
Glenn called out liberals for protesting Trump on Friday, noting that there were messages of hate and a Trump doll with a noose around its neck.
“How do you think that feels as a black man?” Glenn said. “While I might not agree with everything Donald Trump says, I proudly stand with Donald Trump.”
Glenn said it was his personal responsibility to deliver Colorado for Trump, by going into those neighborhoods that Republicans typically won’t go into.
The three-day summit is being held at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. On Saturday night, Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard who made a run for president this year, talked to the crowd about holding true to conservative principles.
“Progressives want to tell us that an unborn life has no value, but its brain its lungs and its heart do. We need to remember who we are.” Carly Fiorina said, saying she never lied about Planned Parenthood.
She was followed by Phil Robertson, the star of “Duck Dynasty,” a reality TV show about his family duck-hunting business in Louisiana.
Robertson gave a fire and brimstone-inspired speech that was more like a sermon about the downfalls of sin and the glory of a life following Jesus Christ.
“We get people off of drugs. We work with drunks with people that just got out of prison, people that’s fixing to go to prison. People that’s in prison. We work with prostitutes, heroin addicts, more sexual sins than you can imagine,” Robertson said.
He then told an anecdote about meeting a teenage heroin addict.
“I never talk to women alone, ever.” he said.
Robertson said they helped her get a car, a little clunker.
“That’s one of thousands,” he said.





