Posted: October 25, 2022 

In case you missed it, political outsider, successful business leader, and Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Joe O'Dea continued his Rally for America's Future tour across Colorado with stops on the Western Slope last week. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel wrote about O'Dea's Grand Junction rally. Read the full article here.See the highlights below:On EnergyClimate and clean energy have been some of Bennet’s focal points since he was first elected. Straying from the mantra of other Republicans, like Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, O’Dea acknowledges the existence of climate change as well as human activity being a “significant cause.”Still, O’Dea’s official stance is that the United States simply is not ready to phase out fossil fuels which, according to his website, is what “Joe Biden and Michael Bennet want.On InflationSome of the Republican candidate’s main issues center around debt reduction and national security. O’Dea blames the country’s economic volatility on financial mismanagement and irresponsibility on the part of the Democratic party, particularly President Joe Biden and Bennet.“We’re going to be choosing to eat or heat our homes. And a lot of us make enough to get through it, but there’s a lot of people that don’t. And that’s why I got in this race. I got in this race to be the voice of working Americans here in Colorado,” O’Dea said.On State of the Race“I like O’Dea a lot,” said Marla Hernandez, a Grand Junction resident and self-described O’Dea supporter. “I think he is the type of guy who can help drain the swamp.”When asked if he thinks he’ll win, O’Dea said, “I know I am. We’re working hard, we’ve built a huge coalition across the state. It’s good GOP, it’s good Trump Republicans. We’ve got a lot of unaffiliated. We’ve got a bunch of disenfranchised Democrats that are voting with Joe O’Dea because they know I’m going to Washington to be a voice for working Americans here in Colorado. So I’m excited to be your next U.S. Senator.

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