George W. Bush Pops Up to Campaign for Anti-Trump Candidate Joe O'Dea

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Former President George W. Bush is taking time faraway from his retirement to marketing campaign for Senate candidate Joe O’Dea of Colorado — who has bucked his birthday party through saying he would now not reinforce former President Donald Trump as the following GOP nominee.

Consistent with Bridget Bowman of NBC News, the remaining Republican president to win the favored vote as a minimum once will come back out of retirement to campaign for O’Dea:

Former President George W. Bush is making a rare look on the marketing campaign path, taking part in a fundraiser with Colorado Republican Senate nominee Joe O’Dea in about two weeks.

The adventure, shared first with NBC Information, is any other sign that Bush is aligning himself with candidates who’ve bucked former President Donald Trump. Earlier in this election cycle, Bush held fundraisers for Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp and Wyoming GOP Gov. Liz Cheney in advance of their primaries against Trump-backed challengers.

As Bowman notes, O’Dea is perhaps best identified for the heresy (amongst Republicans) of recognizing that President Joe Biden gained the 2020 election, and for saying he does not beef up Trump running for president in 2024.

In August, O’Dea told a radio interviewer, “So far as Trump’s involved, I am hoping he doesn’t run. I don’t wish to see him as president.”

And just weeks ago, O’Dea boasted to Chuck Todd of Meet the Press that “I’m the only Senate candidate for the Republican Party that hasn’t been endorsed by using Donald Trump. Most certainly no longer going to send me a Christmas card. I don’t need to see him run once more.”

But he also spoke out against the current president, adding that “I don’t need to see Joe Biden run again. I believe that tears our country aside, and I think I’m the place most American citizens are.”

O’Dea is among the candidates Democrats had been accused of harming by means of spending cash to focus on his opponent Ron Hanks, although the advert presented Hanks’ conservatism as a bad. Incumbent Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet is beating O’Dea by using close to-double-digits in the 538 polling reasonable.

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