A trio of top national consultants are joining Sen. Michael Bennet’s presidential campaign, as the Colorado Democrat fills out his national and early state staff.

Dan Sena, who led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the party‘s takeover of the House in 2018, and Scott Kozar, a Democratic ad-maker now running a consulting firm with Sena, signed on to Bennet’s bid as media consultants. Pete Brodnitz, a Democratic pollster who has worked on a range of Senate and House campaigns, also joined the campaign.

Bennet became one of the last Democrats to jump into the sprawling 24-candidate field, after he received a clean bill of health following a cancer diagnosis in April. But his late start didn’t keep him from the Democratic National Committee’s debate stage, where he’ll appear alongside several top-polling contenders on Thursday night.

Bennet is pitching himself as a tell-it-like-it-is moderate, who is focused on reforming a Washington that’s been dominated by the “shutdown politics” of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the House Freedom Caucus. He’s touted his success in Colorado, a former purple state that’s grown increasingly blue. Bennet, who was appointed to his Senate seat in 2009, won it in 2010, leaving him as one of the few statewide Democrats in Colorado after the Republican wave that year.