民主党现任总统麦克·班尼将会获胜科罗拉多州的参议员竞选美国广播公司新闻预测。
贝内特在寻求共和党候选人乔·奥迪亚时，遇到了他议院的第三个任期。
民意调查显示，丹佛建筑公司的所有者O'Dea在罢免Bennet时总是面临一场艰苦的战斗。根据FiveThirtyEight的统计，贝内特在整个竞选过程中的支持率都领先于奥黛投票平均数在最后几天，贝内特领先了近10个百分点。
贝内特在参议院工作了13年，在竞选中大力宣传民主党的成就。这个周期，他特别吹捧通货膨胀削减法案，两党枪支安全法和芯片法案，以投资国内计算机芯片生产。
在最后的辩论中，伯奈特反驳了O'Dea称他是一个“无能”的参议员的说法。
“那完全不是真的，”贝内特说。“这是经过事实检验的。我已经写了101项法案获得通过，其中82项是由共和党人共同发起的，这还只是我写的那些，不包括我共同发起或参与工作的那些。”
Sen. Michael Bennet answers questions from reporters after dropping off his ballot at Washington Park in Denver, Nov. 2, 2022.
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与此同时，O'Dea将自己推销给科罗拉多州的选民-他们在2020年支持总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)超过唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)约14个百分点-作为一个将国家置于政党之上的政治局外人。
“麦克·班尼是乔·拜登的应声虫，”O'Dea上个月在推特上说。“我是我自己的人。我会永远把美国放在第一位。”
在辩论中，两位候选人在堕胎、犯罪和经济问题上发生了冲突。
O'Dea在堕胎权问题上与本党大多数候选人决裂，表示支持Roe诉Wade案，但反对20周后堕胎，除非是强奸、乱伦或保护母亲生命的情况。
在他们的一次辩论中，贝内特反驳道:“我认为乔·欧迪亚做这个决定的时候不应该在病房里。”。这位民主党参议员支持科罗拉多州今年通过的法律，该法律保证堕胎权利不受限制。
贝内特还多次将奥迪亚与特朗普捆绑在一起，在他们的最后一场辩论中告诉观众，奥迪亚两次投票给前总统。从那以后，O'Dea说特朗普不应该在2024年竞选，并拒绝了他关于2020年大选的谎言。
“科罗拉多州大选前三周，乔你改变了主意，说你要和他作对。这次大选期间发生了什么变化?”贝内特在他们最后一次面对面的会议上说。
Democrat Michael Bennet wins Colorado Senate race
Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet will winColorado's Senate race, ABC News has projected.
Bennet was up against Republican nominee Joe O'Dea as he soughta third term to the chamber.
Polls showed O'Dea, the owner of Denver-based construction company, always faced an uphill battle in unseating Bennet. Bennet polled ahead of O'Dea the entire race, according to FiveThirtyEight'spolling average, and in the closing days Bennet led by nearly 10 percentage points.
Bennet campaigned heavily on Democratic accomplishments, having spent 13 years in the Senate. This cycle, he specifically touted the Inflation Reduction Act, the bipartisan gun safety law and the CHIPS Act to invest in domestic computer chip production.
During the final debate, Bennet pushed back on O'Dea's claims that he was an "ineffective" senator.
"That's completely untrue," Bennet said. "This has been fact-checked. I've written 101 bills that have passed, 82 of those with a Republican co-sponsor, and that's just the ones that I've written, not the one that I've co-sponsored or the ones that I've worked on."
Meanwhile, O'Dea pitched himself to Colorado voters -- who backed President Joe Biden over Donald Trump in 2020 by roughly 14 percentage points -- as a political outsider who would put country over party.
"Michael Bennet is Joe Biden's yes man," O'Dea tweeted last month. "I'm my own man. I'll always put America first."
In their debates, the two candidates clashed on abortion, crime and the economy.
O'Dea broke with most of his party's candidates this cycle on the issue of abortion rights, expressing some support for Roe v. Wade but opposition for abortions after 20 weeks except in cases of rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother.
"I don't think Joe O'Dea should be in that hospital room when she makes that decision," Bennet countered during one of their debates. The Democratic senator supports the Colorado law passed this year that guarantees the right to an abortion without restriction.
Bennet also repeatedly tied O'Dea to Trump, telling the audience in their final debate that O'Dea voted for the former president twice. Since then, O'Dea had said Trump shouldn't run in 2024, and has rejected his lies about the 2020 election.
"Three weeks before the general election in Colorado, Joe you changed your mind and said you're gonna work against him. What changed during this general election?" Bennet said in their last face-to-face meeting.
