{"id":1652078,"date":"2022-09-21T18:19:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T22:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652078"},"modified":"2022-09-21T18:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T22:22:48","slug":"senate-race-in-colorado-has-gop-observers-pointing-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-race-in-colorado-has-gop-observers-pointing-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Race in Colorado Has GOP Observers Pointing Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-race-in-colorado-has-gop-observers-pointing-fingers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Republican Joe O\u2019Dea hopes to unseat Democrat incumbent Sen. Michael Bennett in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-colorado\">Colorado<\/a>\u2019s race in November, some GOP observers are pointing the finger at Washington and others at the O\u2019Dea campaign for the GOP\u2019s election struggles in the Rocky Mountain state.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, The Denver Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2022\/09\/10\/michael-bennet-joe-odea-colorado-senate-polls\/\">highlighted<\/a> dueling election polls which showed O\u2019Dea either losing to Bennett by 11 points with over 10 percent undecided, or trailing only narrowly by a point, depending on the methodology used by pollsters.<\/p>\n<p>But in interviews with The Epoch Times, GOP insiders have complained about either the lack of financial support coming from Washington for the O\u2019Dea campaign, or have claimed that the campaign lacks the requisite grassroots support to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a golden opportunity for Republicans to flip the Senate seat, but [Joe\u2019s] going to need help,\u201d Ryan Lynch, general consultant at Polstar Strategies in Denver who is close to the O\u2019Dea campaign, told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEither it comes from DC, Omaha, Denver, wherever it is, he needs more third-party support,\u201d said Lynch.<\/p>\n<p>  Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 3, 2020. (Alex Edelman\/Getty Images) <strong>NRSC and Campaign at Fault: Observer<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Lynch specifically blamed both the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (NRSC) and the Republican National Committee (NRC) for the funding shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s getting enough support from national interests, whether we\u2019re talking about the NRSC, the RNC or whatever national group that normally supports Republicans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But the man who lost to O\u2019Dea in Colorado\u2019s GOP Senate primary says that the campaign\u2019s real problem is with the candidate himself.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Dea, says his former GOP Senate opponent, is trying to rely on a third party to rescue him when the candidate\u2019s own party doesn\u2019t like his political<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis As Republican Joe O\u2019Dea hopes to unseat Democrat incumbent Sen. Michael Bennett in Colorado\u2019s race in November, some GOP observers are pointing the finger at Washington and others at the O\u2019Dea campaign for the GOP\u2019s election struggles in the Rocky Mountain state. Earlier this month, The Denver Post highlighted dueling election polls which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":731,"featured_media":1894816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/senate-race-in-colorado-has-gop-observers-pointing-fingers_4746626.html","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}