O’Dea received 57% of the vote, while Hanks garnered 43% when the Associated Press announced the race. Rocky Mountain State serves as a testing ground for Democrats’ unorthodox strategy of pressuring conservative and far-right Republican candidates who they believe would repel moderate or independent voters and cut short the planned losses in the run-up to the election. The Democratic Colorado Super PAC lost at least $ 2.5 million in the Senate GOP primary, running ads designed to promote Hanks’ candidacy, calling him “too conservative for Colorado,” underscoring his position on abortions and abortions. Biden won the 2020 election. Hanks, who said he paraded to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but did not enter the building during the uprising, said O’Diagie’s views did not align with those of most Republican voters. Republican presidential nominee Joe O’Dea speaks during Democratic Sen. Michael Bennett’s nightly party observation party.AP “His political positions would put him on the left of Mitt Romney,” Hanks told the Associated Press in an interview. “The message is not Republican, it is not conservative, it is not in favor of life.” O’Dea said he supports a ban on both delayed abortions and state-funded abortions. But he also said that the decision to terminate an early pregnancy is “between a man and his God.” Moderate Joe O’Dea defeats Democrat-backed Ron Hanks in the GOP Senate qualifier in Colorado.AP Photo / David Zalubowski Colorado has voted against abortion bans four times since 2008. Democratic Sen. Michael Bennett, who will address O’Dia in November, used the issue very effectively in his 2010 Senate campaign. who defeated Republican Ken Buck and lawmakers fear a repeat if Hanks wins the qualifiers. If O’Dea overthrows Bennett in the fall, he will join Maine Senators Susan Collins and Alaska Lisa Murkowski as the only Republican senators to publicly support Roe v. Wade, which was overturned by the Supreme Court last week. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. A novice politician, O’Dea has donated to both Democrats and Republicans in the past and gave $ 500 to Bennet in 2010. But he also says he twice voted for Donald Trump and backed the 45th Supreme Court nominees. all three supported Roe’s overthrow – and saw no contradiction between him and his views on abortion. “I’m not a candidate for social issues,” O’Dea said, “and people do not talk about social issues, except for journalists and Ron Hanks.” In the GOP qualifiers, businesswoman Heidi Ganahl, an elected member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, defeated her fiancé Greg Lopez. With Post cables oe O’Dea, Republican nominee for Democratic Sen. Michael Bennett, is accompanied by his wife, Celeste, far-right, daughter Tayler and son-in-law David Freund, far left, on stage before speaking at a qualifying party overnight election observation.AP
