Discussion: Reporter Gianforte Body Slammed Says Congressman Refuses To Do Interview

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From the Democratic Party perspective, I think it would be far more valuable if Jacobs turned his attention to other Montanans.

In November of 2016, incumbent Democratic governor Steve Bullock was re-elected and piled up 255,933 votes against Greg Gianforte’s 236,115.

Just six months later in the special election for Montana’s at-large Congressional district, that same Gianforte—who Montanans rejected in favor of the Democrat Bullock— got 190,520 votes, while Randy Quist got only 169,214.

Why did 86,719 Montana voters endorse Bullock against Gianforte, and then turn around and decide they didn’t care enough to vote against Gianforte again—especially when he was going to represent all of them in Congress? Yes, Quist was an unconventional candidate who had some weaknesses, but were they really so significant to warrant putting Gianforte into office?

This is symptomatic of the failures of the Democratic Party all over the country in off-year elections, and with the exception of fighting GOP voter suppression, there is no more critical problem for the party to fix.

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she said she was proud that she hadn’t eaten a hot dog in like five years. So I asked her if she liked hot dogs. She said no.

A filthy-minded juvenile like myself might suspect this was coded language about something else.

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I knew you wise guys in the back row would be smirking about this. But yeah, God knows people telegraph stuff like that all the time.

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It is probably the same ‘spokes person’ who handled it then and now. Typical GOP mindset, nothing but a bunch of cowards.

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