A glimpse through campaign materials from Republican U.S. Senate candidates Joe O’Dea and Ron Hanks gives the impression the rivals are running separate races.
O’Dea, a Denver native who owns a construction company, singles out U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, the Democratic incumbent; Hanks, a state representative from Cañon City, highlights O’Dea’s openness to Roe v. Wade.
This month, Colorado Republican and unaffiliated voters will get to choose which man to pit against Bennet in the general election. And in doing so, declaring distinctly different shades of Republican as the party’s standard bearer this November.Hanks cleared much the crowded primary field for the GOP nomination at. He won support from about 40% of assembly goers, and none of the other candidates there cleared the threshold to land on the ballot.
Beating Bennet will mean winning a large chunk of unaffiliated voters to the Republican cause. They’re also eligible to vote in any primary election. In the two elections since the law change allowing that, they’ve tended to vote in Democratic primaries. However, Democratic incumbents fill all the statewide seats, making the Republican primary the only meaningful statewide contest this June.
In the two legislative sessions since, he was a prime sponsor of six bills, none of which became law in the Democrat-controlled legislature: Two pertained to election security, two were pro-firearms, one would have helped agencies buy water storage tanks for wildfire fighting, and one would have given tax-credits to families with children in non-public schools.Rep. Ron Hanks in the House of Representatives at the Colorado Capitol building on Jan. 12, 2022.
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