{"id":1700779,"date":"2022-10-18T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700779"},"modified":"2022-10-18T07:18:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:18:41","slug":"senate-seat-in-blue-colorado-could-go-to-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-seat-in-blue-colorado-could-go-to-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Seat in Blue Colorado Could Go to GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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-seat-in-blue-colorado-could-go-to-gop%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=1700779&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>Both parties quietly say the Colorado senate seat currently held by Democrat empty suit Michael Bennet could very well flip to GOP challenger Joe O\u2019Dea \u2014 despite him lagging far behind in every poll taken so far.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Dea runs a successful construction company and has never held or run for public office before this year. Nevertheless, earlier this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/03\/politics\/senate-race-rankings-october-elections\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> rated the O\u2019Dea-Bennet race as one of the \u201c10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022,\u201d and today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/17\/colorado-state-republicans-senate-00061947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLITICO<\/a> reports that \u201ctop party operatives have mused that Joe O\u2019Dea is the best Republican candidate running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has very quickly turned from a swing state to deep blue. No Republican has won statewide office since 2014, the same year Democrats promulgated all-mail-in voting.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I\u2019m implying anything \u2014 wink, wink.<\/p>\n<p>So the multimillion-dollar question \u2014 with both parties now throwing massive amounts of money at the race \u2014 is this: Why does anyone think that a low-polling neophyte Republican has any chance against an entrenched Democrat?<\/p>\n<p>One is that O\u2019Dea might be correctly reading the mood of the state electorate. Colorado is one of the few states where Presidentish Joe Biden\u2019s approval rating is <a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/politics\/election\/colorado-approval-president-biden-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actually above water<\/a>, if only barely. In my state, I\u2019m sad to say, voters approve of Biden\u2019s performance by 44.5% and disapprove by 44.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that\u2019s within the margin of error, so maybe I should say that Colorado is one of the states where Biden is at his least unpopular.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, Biden\u2019s presence is so toxic that most Democrat midterm candidates have politely asked him to stay away from their states or districts, when they aren\u2019t actively campaigning against their own president\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>That isn\u2019t true here. Bennet both welcomed and appeared with Biden at the <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskaexaminer.com\/2022\/10\/17\/biden-colorado-democrats-celebrate-national-monument-designation-at-camp-hale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Hale National Monument<\/a> dedication this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Bennet has tried and failed since 2011 to get Camp Hale \u2014 a famous WWII training center \u2014 designated as a national monument by legislation, so Biden did it as a campaign favor by executive fiat.<\/p>\n<p>Held in the deep mountains 90 minutes west of Denver, the dedication wasn\u2019t exactly a super-high-profile event, to be sure. And as former Colorado state GOP chair Dick Wadhams told POLITICO, \u201c[Bennet has] had this huge spending edge, and yet he has to beg and plead for the president to come out here to do something that Bennet could not get done in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Bennet and Biden were busy talking about pretty much anything other than the economy, rising crime, and other issues Americans say they care about, O\u2019Dea has been hammering them.<\/p>\n<p>Bennet blames inflation on \u201cbroken global supply chains,\u201d while O\u2019Dea blames the \u201c$1.9 trillion reckless spending bill that got put in place by Michael Bennet. He cast the deciding vote back in March of last year, it\u2019s caused record inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Dea has largely avoided \u201cold\u201d issues like the 2020 election and the January 6 not-an-insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign website says:<\/p>\n<p>Gas is topping $4 a gallon in Colorado, inflation is the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both parties quietly say the Colorado senate seat currently held by Democrat empty suit Michael Bennet could very well flip to GOP challenger Joe O\u2019Dea \u2014 despite him lagging far behind in every poll taken so far. O\u2019Dea runs a successful construction company and has never held or run for public office before this year. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897404,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700779","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}