Udall tries to link McCain and Pearce to Bush

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall used his two minutes as a speaker at the Democratic National Convention tonight to try to link GOP presidential candidate John McCain and Udall’s Republican Senate opponent, Steve Pearce, to President Bush.

Udall said Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will win New Mexico because, “in the West, we know Washington is broken and Barack Obama is the change we need. It’s bad enough that John McCain and my opponent, Steve Pearce, have supported every one of George Bush’s special-interest economic policies.”

Udall continued by saying that Bush has set a number of records during his presidency, including record prices for gas, food and college tuition. He said McCain and Pearce want to “try to set new records in middle-class misery.”

Udall used his last few seconds to promote a Web site his campaign started — MiddleClassSqueeze.com — which includes a calculator the Udall campaign says tells people how much their food, gas, health-insurance and prescription-drug costs have increased during the Bush presidency.

Udall was one of a handful of Democratic U.S. Senate candidates given the opportunity to briefly address the convention this evening.

Update, 8 p.m.

Here’s video of Udall’s speech: