Bennet, other Democrats get-out-the-vote as campaign enters final week

Senator Michael Bennet stopped by the El Paso Democratic Party office Tuesday afternoon for a get-out-the-vote event.

Bennet begins the final week of his re-election campaign as the favorite against El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn. The senator knows Colorado is a purple state, he won the seat in 2010 by fewer than 40,000 votes.

“The ultimate message is everybody’s vote counts and we need every vote counted,” Bennet said. “I hope people will vote for me based on my bipartisan track record in Washington but I also just hope people will vote. If you’re running in a statewide election you have to assume it will be a close election, that’s certainly my assumption. I think it’s also true of the presidential race as well.”

Bennet was joined by Democratic State rep. Pete Lee and House District 17 candidate Tony Exum of Colorado Springs.

“What really is at stake is governance and whether we’re committed to having leaders who want to move the state forward and the nation forward,” Lee said.

As of Tuesday, more than one million Coloradans returned their ballot. Democrats have turned in approximately 27,000 more ballots than Republicans.