The Democrats didn’t want O’Dea as the GOP nominee. Democrat groups dropped some $10 million in favor of Ron Hanks, who was the Trump-endorsed candidate, because they thought he’d be easier for Bennet to beat. Remember that, and the dozens of other instances where they attempted to manipulate GOP primaries (many of whom will have backfired horrendously on them come Nov. 8 when the MAGA revivalists they thought would be dead ducks in the general election end up taking out their candidates), when they regurgitate their little narrative about how the new conservatives are a “threat to democracy.”
O’Dea beat Hanks by 10 points in the Colorado GOP Senate primary, and he’s picked up support from the party’s establishment, including several million dollars from the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Senate Leadership Fund — money that isn’t being spent on candidates closer to victory such as Blake Masters in Arizona and Don Bolduc in New Hampshire. Probably because O’Dea would presumably vote for McConnell as the Senate Majority Leader while Masters and Bolduc won’t. For further clarification, see Alaska.
Trump is calling O’Dea a RINO. He doesn’t have a legislative or executive record in government that we could evaluate; at one point it was the fear of a great many conservatives that Trump himself was a RINO, and he proved those fears wrong.
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