U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet's win last night serves as a reinforcement of Colorado’s trending Democratic tendencies in a year many Republicans hoped would be washed over in a national red wave.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet won his reelection bid Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press, setting him up to be one of the longest-serving senators in the state’s history.As of about 10 p.m. Tuesday, Bennet led Republican candidate Joe O’Dea with 945,606 votes to 711,893, or 56% to 42%. About 1.7 million votes had been tallied.
“We’ve got to do more,” Bennet said. “I want to go back there to end childhood poverty. We need to address a health care system that still costs too much and doesn’t cover enough Americans. We’ve got to fix, finally, our broken immigration system. We have to secure the future of the Colorado River and the American West. And we have to give people a sense of economic opportunity again.”
“I would say this state does not want to go backward to Donald Trump,” Bennet said. “That is very clear.” The race drew national attention as O’Dea sought to separate himself from Republican orthodoxy. He rejected conspiracy theories around the 2020 presidential election and said he wouldn’t support former President Donald Trump in the 2024 primary . That brought on a rebuke by the former president, who called O’Dea a Republican in name only.
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