Trump slams Colorado Republican Senate candidate after Joe O’Dea says he wouldn’t back him for president

The day after Republican U.S. Senate nominee Joe O’Dea said he’d “actively campaign against” Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race, Trump lashed out at the candidate as a “RINO,” or Republican in name only.

O’Dea has frequently said he hopes the former president doesn’t seek the Republican nomination again, usually arguing that another Trump candidacy would be too divisive. But he doesn’t usually say he’d actively fight a Trump 2024 campaign. O’Dea named Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina as Republicans he’d like to see run for president.

“President Trump is entitled to his opinion but I’m my own man and I’ll call it like I see it,” O’Dea said in the statement. “Another Biden, Trump election will tear this country apart. DeSantis, Scott, Pompeo or Haley would be better choices.” Hanks is a 2020 presidential election denier who proudly declared he was at the Jan. 6 protest, though not the storming of the U.S. Capitol that followed. He positioned himself as one of the staunchest conservatives in the state House of Representatives during his one term there., and earned enough support from party faithful there that he cleared the field of all but O’Dea.

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