voter turnout here in colorado to carry me across the country. what does senator o dea campaign for running against trump in 2024? we have good candidates and i ll support one of them. we have to get an election behind us. we ve got to get this economy back on track. that s what i m focused on. joe o dea, we ll have to leave it there. thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. in a note, we invited michael bennett to join us as well. we have yet to hear back. you probably enjoyed that extra hour of sleep this weebd, yes? i had a marathon, but yes. i definitely enjoyed it. the extra hour didn t hurt. no. it helped. i had a good night s sleep. however, they say some experts medical experts say that it actually, if it becomes permanent, it could hurt our health. we ll talk about that. maybe it s perfecting that special place
live? westchester. i ran five times for district. okay, i have i m going to do the kneecapping then. but this this this actually just happened in a commercial break. you went upstairs, saw that real clear politics has just moved. colorado s senate race to a toss up. wow. okay, okay. what do you think of them. wow. who moved it to a toss up rcp wow. really interesting. real clear politics. this is joe o dea. all right. drop out of college. he was too cautious, shy, built a construction business, became very, very successful. he s done a lot of his own money into it. he s not been in politics before. michael bennet is an established democrat who s had the office for several terms. he s trying to get another one . o dea is he s he s not your typical republican . he s come out in favor of certain abortion rights, reproductive rights for women. he s had a few things to say about donald trump, etc..
that had planned to carry their child to term, and some devastating thing happens to their health and they have to make a decision to have an abortion. and that is the point at which joe o dea thinks he should be in the hospital room with that woman and her doctor or, that she ought to lawyer up or demonstrate that she is actually raped or a victim of incest. it is let me say this, lawrence it is a position well outside the mainstream of where colorado is on that issue. colorado senator michael bennet, running for reelection, thank you very much for joining us tonight. thanks for having me, lawrence. i really appreciate working hard to hold on to this majority and i think we will. thank you, senator. and coming up, kansas shocked american politics in august when nearly 1 million voters turned out to vote against banning abortion in this state. kansas is only democratic
experiences might not be reflected in data if you don t feel safe, if you are someone you care about has been accosted, or assaulted, that s your experience. fear is primal, it s a crucial emotion, mobilizes us to respond to life-threatening situations, avoiding danger at all costs. you can hear the data, violent crime might be down in your area, but if you feel there s a threat, that s real to you, and emotions vote motivate voters. joining me next, the senate candidate we mentioned a moment ago, joe o dea, is one of the many republicans running on crime. he s also running away from donald trump, i that end up hurting him in his purple state of colorado? we will ask him right after this.
who is not in trump s good graces win a senate seat? that is a big question in the purple state of colorado, where businessman joe, day a moderate republican seeking to unseat michael bennet. he first drew trump s ire after he said this. i don t think donald trump should run again, i m gonna actively campaign against donald trump. adding more salt to trump s wound, former governor ron desantis giving o dea his full backing, despite his bashing of trump. this prompted the former president issue an all caps response on his truth social platform, calling it a big mistake. joe o dea joins me now to talk about this and much much more. good to see, you thank so much for joining, us trump has directly attacked you, to his call to stupid, he s called you a rhino, meaning republican in