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"the other marquee race in this state. Phil Weiser versus Michael Bennett. And Phil Weiser ran a genuinely anti-establishment campaign. I wanna be clear, Phil Weiser is progressive. Phil Weiser is, I wouldn't call him a Bernie-style progressive populist, but he is a progressive and he certainly was cast and in the progressive anti-establishment lane in that race against Michael Bennett. I also wanna be clear that I think Michael Bennett, to distinguish him from John Hickenlooper, at least talks about issues like health care, economic inequality as distinct from John Hickenlooper. They're not exactly the same, but I do think the rejection of Michael Bennett is a big, big deal, especially in Colorado where these kinds of things almost never happen. Michael Bennett was an appointed senator, was promising to appoint his successors. It was a campaign essentially run out of a big money super PAC with out-of-state billionaires. So he ran an incredibly establishment-aligned campaign. And Phil Weiser, I think, maximized his candidacy as the anti-establishment choice. And I think a lot of voters, I said this on social media, this was, I think, less or as much a rejection or maybe even less a rejection of one particular senator than an entire way of doing politics, than a rejection of the entire elite system of how politics works in this state. And I think Phil Weiser, on election night, claiming the mandate, this is very important, claiming an election mandate of saying, saying explicitly, the future of Colorado will not be decided by out-of-state billionaires. What's great about that is for the gubernatorial nominee to frame the election as a rejection of oligarchy. And I think that's what it was. And what happens to Michael Bennett in the future, if he runs for Senate again, I very much expect a primary challenge to him if he runs again. I think the race has essentially upended, that race, Phil Weiser winning, has upended the entire state of politics at the statewide level in Colorado."

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