Colorado businessman Joe O’Dea defeated state Rep. Ron Hanks on Tuesday to win the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. He will face Democrat U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in November. At 7:30 p.m., cheers of “Let’s Go, Joe!” broke out at O’Dea’s campaign watch party in Denver. The race had been called by Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman minutes before.