Colorado’s Bennet looks to fend off O’Dea in US Senate race

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Associated Press

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet is trying to win reelection to the U.S. Senate against a challenge from Republican businessman Joe O’Dea, a first-time candidate. A win would send Bennet to his fourth term. Bennet hammered O’Dea on the threat of Republican control in Washington and abortion rights. O’Dea was the rare Republican candidate to run on his support of Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights case that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned in June. Only one Republican, Cory Gardner, has won a federal race in Colorado since 2004, and voters ousted him from the Senate in 2020.