Donald Trump doesn’t think much of Colorado Republican Senate nominee Joe O’Dea.
The former president, who remains the most popular and influential politician in the Republican Party, criticized O’Dea as a RINO (Republican in name only), called him “stupid,” and argued that his supporters wouldn’t back the Denver area construction company owner and first-time Republican candidate as he challenges Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet.
While Trump may not think much of O’Dea, the Senate Leadership Fund, the top pro-Senate Republican super PAC, apparently does. The group, which is aligned with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, last week funneled $1.25 million to a pro-O’Dea super PAC and said in a statement that it thinks that Bennet is “vulnerable.”
While the high-profile Senate showdowns in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and North Carolina, as well as the expensive faceoffs in competitive states such as Florida, Ohio and New Hampshire have hogged the national political spotlight, the contest in Colorado may be a sleeper in the battle between the Democrats and Republicans for the Senate majority. And the race in Colorado may not be the only contest that could offer a surprise in next month’s midterm elections.
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Joe O’Dea, Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Michael Bennet, speaks during a primary election night watch party, late June 28, 2022, in Denver.
(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
A day after O’Dea – a fiscal conservative who supports beefed up border security and cracking down on crime but who’s socially moderate on abortion and same-sex marriage – said in a Sunday talk show interview on CNN that he’d “actively” campaign against Trump and for other GOP candidates if the former president runs again in 2024, Trump shot back on social media, saying “MAGA doesn’t Vote for stupid people with big mouths.”
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Hours later, in a statement to Fox News and other organizations, O’Dea returned fire, writing, “President Trump is entitled to his opinion, but I’m my own man and I’ll call it like I see it. Another Biden-Trump election will tear this country apart. DeSantis, Scott, Pompeo or Haley would be better choices. These elections should be focused on Joe Biden’s failures supercharged inflation, a broken border, rampant crime, a…
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