From ABC News: As Republican leaders fearful of losing the majority in the U.S. Senate parade through Montana to rally behind embattled incumbent Steve Daines, one has been conspicuously absent: President Donald Trump. The president visited Montana repeatedly in 2018 and hosted huge rallies in a failed bid to oust...
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Some very good news today out of Montana: The U.S. Senate, House, and governor’s races in Montana are extremely close according to the results of the annual Mountain States Poll released on Wednesday, Oct. 28. The 33rd edition of the poll interviewed 546 likely voters in Montana contacted via live...
int.nyt.com/… A newly released survey from the NYT/Siena Poll, rated A+, shows Democratic candidates all within four points of winning the US Senate, US House, and Governor races in Montana. Joe Biden only trails by 6% in a state Trump won by 20% in 2016. These races look likely to...
Here’s the latest news today out of Montana courtesy of NBC Montana/Strategies 360 poll: In the heated U.S. Senate race, incumbent Republican Sen. Steve Daines leads challenger Gov. Steve Bullock by 1 point, 48% to 47%, with 5% undecided. The U.S. House race proves to be just as close, with...
Some good news today out of Montana courtesy of Montana University’s latest poll: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock leads incumbent Sen. Steve Daines by two points in the race for the U.S. Senate with 49% from likely and active registered voters compared to 47% for Daines. Only 3% were undecided. The...
Here’s the latest news today out of Montana courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: PPP’s new Montana poll finds the race for Senate as tight as it can be. Steve Bullock and Steve Daines are each at 48%. Beyond that, they have nearly identical approval ratings for their work in their...
Damn: The letter was sent Friday to Lee Montana Newspapers and included 111 names of nurses, doctors, caregivers and public health professionals. It criticized Gianforte, the state’s current U.S. House representative, for three instances. First, he appeared at a Lewis and Clark County event Oct. 3 that the health department...
The right-wing publication, The National Review, has been pushing this narrative against Governor Steve Bullock (D. MT) in his bid to unseat U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R. MT): ‘When you invest in Montana, you have the full support of the state,” Governor Steve Bullock says at the conclusion of a...
Governor Steve Bullock (D. MT) has been kicking Trump’s ass lately. First, there was this: A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration's leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully and has blocked him from continuing in the position. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris said U.S. Bureau...
Hell yeah: A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration's leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully and has blocked him from continuing in the position. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris said U.S. Bureau of Land Management acting director William Perry Pendley served unlawfully for 424 days...
There’s a lot going on but I wanted to make sure the biggest toss-up Governor race of this cycle still gets some attention. The Huffington Post has a great piece out profiling gubernatorial candidate, Rep. Greg Gianforte (R. MT) and his long record of being very anti-Science which is very...
Hell yeah: Gov. Steve Bullock filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Great Falls Tuesday against the United States Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for what he calls “unlawful actions that have directly harmed Montanans by impeding the flow of mail.” It appears Bullock is the first...
From Salon: Montana Republicans Sen. Steve Daines and Rep. Greg Gianforte share a tight financial and legislative history with each other and with the tech giant Oracle that goes back years. That relationship has netted each of them several million dollars and made Gianforte one of the wealthiest members of...
First off, this is bull shit: Calling Gov. Steve Bullock’s August directive permitting counties to hold the Nov. 3 election via mail ballot illegal, President Donald Trump’s campaign and three other Republican groups sued Bullock on Wednesday seeking to overturn it. The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Helena by...
From Salon: A leading Democratic group accused Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., of hypocrisy for campaign ads touting Daines as tough on China after he repeatedly met with Chinese Communist Party officials on trips paid for by taxpayers — while avoiding town halls with his constituents back home. Daines, who holds...
Good: Montana's Democratic governor asked a federal judge Aug. 20 to take swift action to remove the Trump administration's chief steward of public lands, as the former industry attorney hangs onto the post despite the White House saying Aug. 15 that his nomination would be withdrawn. Gov. Steve Bullock said...
Lisa Rein has a good piece in The Washington Post about Montana’s history of split-ticket voting could be the key factor in helping Governor Steve Bullock (D. MT) defeat U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R. MT): Montanans, stubbornly independent, like to split tickets. And Bullock, a lawyer who narrowly won reelection...
The Huffington Post has a good piece about how Governor Steve Bullock’s (D. MT) handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the role it will play in his bid to unseat U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R. MT): Republicans, who hold a slim three-seat majority in the Senate, considered Montana a safe...
From Salon: Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, who faces a tough re-election fight this year, received thousands of dollars from pharmaceutical companies while pushing Congress to fund a fast-tracked coronavirus treatment and vaccine development program that eventually awarded contracts to those companies, Federal Election Commission records show. The $10...
The New York Times has a great piece out today about the upcoming U.S. Senate race between Governor Steve Bullock (D. MT) and incumbent U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R. MT). It goes on to discuss how split ticket voting and Bullock’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Montana are his...
Here’s the latest news out of Montana today courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: PPP’s new Montana poll finds that Steve Bullock is the most popular politician in the state and he has a small lead over Steve Daines, 46-44. 50% of voters approve of the job Bullock is doing to...
Kudos to Emily Singer at The American Independent for capturing this: x After several positive ads, Montana U.S. Sen. @SteveDaines (R) re-election campaign with a contrast ad against @SteveBullockMT (D) on health care. Links Bullock to Biden and Pelosi. First aired this AM in Butte-Bozeman per @Ad_Analytics. #mtsen #mtpol pic.twitter.com/4em1fy8ZheâÂÂ...
From Oliver Willis at The American Independent: Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) said on Wednesday that politicians should leave Washington, D.C., and go where “the real people” are to find out how they feel about issues. “Sometimes I think it's important for senators and congressmen, in fact most of the time,...
Sorry I missed this poll yesterday but here’s a new poll from the University of Montana Big Sky Poll: MISSOULA – The University of Montana Big Sky Poll recently asked 517 registered Montana voters, if the election were held today, how would they vote? In a series of head-to-head matchups, participants...
If you’ve been loving all the great work coming out of the Lincoln Project then you’re going to love this: x YouTube Video The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump GOP super PAC, endorsed former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) in the state's Senate race on Wednesday, saying he's “shown up” for the Treasure...
The Wall Street Journal has a good piece out about the Montana U.S. Senate race and how an effective governor’s response to a pandemic can make a great candidate for the U.S. Senate: Three days after Montana Gov. Steve Bullock announced his Senate bid, he declared a statewide emergency. That...
Some very good news today out of Montana: Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock out-raised Republican Sen. Steve Daines by a 2-to-1 margin in the past six weeks, increasing his campaign fundraising take to almost $6 million since entering the contest in early March. Bullock reported Thursday that he raised nearly $2.5...
Received this e-mail yesterday from U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D. MT) in support of Lt. Governor Mike Cooney’s (D. MT) gubernatorial campaign: Listen, political experts are calling Mike’s election the most competitive Governor's race in the entire country. Republicans have a real shot to flip Montana red and undo so...
Lifelong Montanan & New York Times columnist, Sarah Vowell, has a great piece out about Democrats like U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D. MT) and Governor Steve Bullock (D. MT) have been able to win big races in a red state like Montana. Her piece compares Bullock, who is running for...
Some very big news today out of Montana: x In the US Senate election, voters prefer Democratic Governor Steve Bullock over Republican Incumbent Steve Daines 49% to 46%, bolstered by his strength among Independent voters and his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak. Full results and cross tabs here:https://t.co/gYC5XqtaCz pic.twitter.com/ggdKA3hHViâ The...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D. MT) in support of Lt. Governor Mike Cooney’s (D. MT) gubernatorial campaign: I’m reaching out to ask if you can chip in $5 to Democrat Mike Cooney’s campaign for Montana Governor. Let me explain → When I endorsed my friend...
Here’s something. I missed last week courtesy of The Montana Post: Yesterday, the campaign for Montana Attorney General Tim Fox accused Greg Gianforte, our current US House Representative and his rival for the GOP nomination for governor, of financing his campaign by insider trading capitalizing on COVID-19. In an e-mail...
FiveThirtyEight has a new piece out today about the 11 Governor races coming up this year. The most competitive and only toss-up race this year is Montana: The most competitive contest is probably the governor’s race in Montana, where Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock is term-limited. While both parties will select...
Some very good news out of Montana today courtesy of Public Policy Polling on behalf of End Citizens United: x [BREAKING] Our new poll in Montana shows close races for both the #Senate and the #House: both @stevebullockmt and @WilliamsForMT are TIED with their #GOP opponents. Read the results here:...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D. MT) in support of Lt. Governor Mike Cooney’s (D. MT) gubernatorial campaign: Sen. Jon Tester (D. MT) & Lt. Governor Mike Cooney (D. MT) I’m thrilled to announce I’m endorsing Mike Cooney to be the next Democratic Governor of Montana!...