Here are some of the key moments and takeaways from last night's debate.
Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and his challenger, Republican businessman Joe O’Dea, took familiar jabs at each other during a debate Tuesday night, taking shots at each other’s links to national figures and jostling over inflation, energy and foreign policy.
He laid various spending packages — like the COVID relief bill signed as the nation emerged from one pandemic wave and was months away from another — and Biden immigration and foreign policy at Bennet’s feet. As he did at a Republican get-out-the-vote rally Sunday, O’Dea cast his opponent as the deciding vote for Biden’s agenda .In turn, Bennet talked up his own work to pass immigration reform and said O’Dea would’ve supported Trump’s “medieval” border wall.
Bennet, unsurprisingly, disagreed. Inflation is a global problem caused by supply chain issues, he said, not one confined to the United States. When O’Dea blamed Biden for setting a date to pull out of Afghanistan, and pivoted from that to saying America needed energy dominance to better influence world affairs, Bennet countered that Trump had set the first date to withdraw from Afghanistan and that America needed to be seen as a leader.