Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) officially launched his Senate campaign against GOP incumbent Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) on Monday morning.
“I’ve always fought for the people of Montana. Together, we expanded health care, protected public lands, banned dark money in politics & more,” Bullock tweeted. “Now I’m taking that fight to the US Senate.”
The tweet included a 50-second ad touting his experience as governor.
In May 2019, Bullock began a short-lived presidential bid in the 2020 Democratic primary before ending his anemic campaign several months later in December.
The governor isn’t the first former 2020 presidential candidate to switch over to a Senate race after leaving the bloated field of Democrats gunning for the White House.
Several days after ending his presidential campaign in August 2019, former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper (D) announced that he was running against Sen. Cory Gardner (D-CO) instead.
MoscowMitch will NOT be happy about this…
Meanwhile, here’s some pointers for Bullock from Preet tweet thread:
“Donald Trump is the greatest hoax…”
Thank you, Steve! Apparently the I-can’t-be-president-so-I’m-taking-my-ball-and-going-home infection has lifted - hooray!
This puts Montana in play, in a big way. My early prediction is Bullock will win the seat.
More to the point, we are spreading out republican resources now, which is precisely the correct overall strategy when they have 20+ seats up for re-election. They won’t have enough resources to protect AZ, CO, MT, KY, NC, SC, 2xGA, ME, KS, etc, and so, McConnell will have some very tough decisions coming his way.
Daines is an invisible backbench Senator,
This may work.
Sigh. This isn’t FOX News, is it?
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