Colorado Democrats are about to find out what they got for spending $4 million to meddle in today's GOP Senate primary.
The risk is twofold. Candidates who questioned the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election can be swept into office in a wave year. And if the more moderate candidate squeaks through, swing voters may remember in November that they were the non-MAGA candidate.Bennet is running for a third term in a state Biden won by more than 13%. But after Republican Glenn Youngkin won in plus-11 Virginia, Democrats looked across the map to reassess who else might have a tighter-than-expected race in 2022.
Hanks has raised just $125,000 on his own, but with the dark-money Democratic cash infusion, strategists from both parties say the race is too close to call.An outside super PAC called Democratic Colorado has run some $2 million in ads highlighting Hanks' greatest conservative hits.
The Supreme Court's repeal of Roe v. Wade might energize suburban swing voters in Colorado, which was deeply anti-Trump, to vote against Republicans.Patrick Burgwinkle, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said the primary has left O'Dea as well as Hanks "saddled with an agenda that is totally out of step with the voters that decide the general election in Colorado," and “We are prepared to defeat whichever candidate limps out.
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