DENVER — U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet won his reelection bid Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press, setting him up to be one of the longest-serving senators in the state’s history.
As of about 8 p.m. Tuesday, Bennet led Republican candidate Joe O’Dea with 801,025 votes to 591,434. About 1.4 million had been tallied.
The win serves as a reinforcement of Colorado’s trending Democratic tendencies in a year many Republicans hoped would be washed over in a national red wave. While it was too soon to know the partisan makeup of the U.S. Senate Tuesday night, Bennet’s victory gives national Democrats hope of minimizing losses in, if not outright holding, the chamber.
