board in yellow? colorado. colorado is blue. been blue for some time. why is that? let s go back to the presidential results from just two years ago where joe biden beat donald trump by a good 15 points, 14, 15 points. so this year in the state of colorado you have a pretty good match-up right now between michael bennett has had the seat for the number of years being challenged by a businessman who never ran for public office in his life, a college drop-out, married his college sweetheart and runs a construction company in colorado. his name is joe o dea. a lot of people are talking about him right now. he joins me now. thank you for your time. the money is not with you. it is with michael bennett. how do you overcome that? bill, thanks for having me on this morning. i ve been an underdog all my life. i got my head down and we re grinding away. i ve been across the entire state and talking to people about what s important. talking about inflation, this
with here with us today. i want to begin with republican candidate joe o dea, and i want to start with the economy. there is a new inflation report showing core inflation reaching its highest rate in 40 years, utility gas is up 33%, chicken milk, vegetables, they re all up. if you were in the senate, what specifically would you do to fix the inflation problem? dana, thanks for having me on today. this inflation has been caused by the $1.9 trillion reckless spending bill that got put in place by michael bennett. he cast the deciding vote back in march of last year it s caused record inflation. they ve drum pd over $5 trillion in the last year and a half. in addition to that, the war on energy has caused the price of diesel to go through the ceiling. it s still there today. we ve got a fed that s been asleep at the wheel, big government in our way. those are just a few of the issues i m going to address in
i m going to do my job as senator make sure they have good campaigns so we have a good selection of candidates for 2024. before i let you go, abortion is shaping up to be a major issue in the midterms. you support a 20-week ban in colorado with exceptions for rape and incest. two years ago your state rejected a 22-week ban. colorado currently has no limits on abortion. are you out of step with your state? no. i believe for the first five months that decision should be between a woman and her doctor. after that, for rape, incest, life of the mother, medical necessity, i believe that decision should be between a woman and her doctor. michael bennett voted for a bill that supports abortion up to and including the moment of birth i m asking about your that s excessive. that s excessive. my position is where most of america is. that s excessive. joe o dea, thank you so much.
candidates in two crittle battleground races, one with tremendous consequences for the country, arizona where democrat katie hobbs is running against republican kari lake for governor, and then to colorado where republican joe o dea is testing whether a republican who distances himself from former president trump could win a purple state. o dea and incumbent democratic senator michael bennett will be here. first today we start with the biden administration and the issue voters say over and over is their top concern, the economy. here with me now is white house economic adviser cecilia rouse. thank you so much for joining me. i want to start with what president biden said on friday, that his administration has made some progress on reigning in inflation. annual inflation in september was 8.2%. it barely changed from the month before. how is that progress? so i very much appreciate the
i appreciate it. i want to go to michael bennet, the democratic senator from colorado, defending his seat against who you just heard, joe o dea. it s been two months since democrats passed the so-called inflation reduction acted which you called a victory for the american people. core inflation is still at its highest level in four decades. polls show, as you know, that the economy is a top issue for colorado voters. so why isn t the inflation reduction act reducing inflation? well, because the elements of the inflation reduction act aren t going to kick in for a while, dana. the cap on drug prices for seniors and the requirement final, finally, oh over kaem pharma that medicare negotiate drug prices on behalf of the american people, capping insulin at $35 a month. these are things that are going