Analysis: A Republican who believes Trump lost looks to put Colorado’s Senate race in play
To win the GOP nomination, O’Dea defeated Ron Hanks, a state representative who had participated in President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, though he did not go into the Capitol with the rioters. That a Trump follower was defeated in the June primary is perhaps not surprising. Colorado voters have shown an especially deep dislike for Trump. His vote percentages in the state in 2016 and 2020 were in the bottom 15 of all 50 states.
shifted its rating from likely Democrat to lean Democrat. A congressional colleague of Bennet’s said privately that he believes the incumbent will prevail but that the contest with O’Dea is “a real race.” O’Dea said he decided to run for the Senate because he saw “our freedoms get encroached on” by government. “I call it death by a thousand cuts,” he added. “Government getting in the way of business, getting in the way of employees being able to live their lives freely, and more and more encroachment into what we do, and rules and regulations and red tape, and none of it adds value.”
“My vote for the bipartisan gun bill is popular in Colorado,” Bennet said. “His opposition to the bipartisan gun bill is unpopular in Colorado. My vote for the reconciliation package is extremely popular in Colorado. His view that he doesn’t like anything in that reconciliation package is incredibly unpopular.
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