Montana Gov. Steve Bullock Challenges GOPer Steve Daines For Senate Seat

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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) officially launched his Senate campaign against GOP incumbent Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) on Monday morning.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1295762
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MoscowMitch will NOT be happy about this…

Meanwhile, here’s some pointers for Bullock from Preet tweet thread:

“Donald Trump is the greatest hoax…”

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Thank you, Steve! Apparently the I-can’t-be-president-so-I’m-taking-my-ball-and-going-home infection has lifted - hooray!

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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.

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Daines is an invisible backbench Senator,

This may work.

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Sigh. This isn’t FOX News, is it?

John Hickenlooper (D) announced that he was running against Sen. Cory Gardner (D-CO) instead

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Completely OT, but the Dow just shit the bed. Like…real bad. Never seen this before. I cant imagine the rage going on at WH right now…

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once Joementum hit, guessing Bullock calculated down ballot efforts might not be wasted exercises.

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Not snark
Not hyperbole

In fact I would substitute the term “Modern Western Democratic Republic” for “America”.

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I hope the fed chair is getting some small sense of karmic satisfaction after DonnieMoscow basically blamed him for the previous plunginess. It’s all on the dotard now.

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I don’t mind taking a stab at it :laughing:

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It’s all on Pence now. :wink: That’s why he got assigned this position, and ultimately, he is going to receive ALL the blame from Trump.

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Hey - Powell didn’t lower the rates to negative! Unfair! Trump will go on a victim bender with this virus, no other president in history had to deal with this … it’s his only play at this point. His aggrieved deplorables will undoubtedly sympathize.

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Tat would be awesome— Dotard throwing the guy who gives him adoring puppy dog eyes whenever he looks at him under the bus. (And then replacing him on the ticket with Nikki Haley.).

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If any Democrat can win this seat, it is Bullock.

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OT: DOW gets shivved again and our Dear Leader tweets, “So much Fake New!”

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I’m waiting for the “Day Trader Relief” executive order.

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This New Yorker has been a Bullock fan for years and hoped that he would have a place on a presidential ticket.
He lived here when he attended Columbia so he understands us.
I like that as governor and as AG he stood up to and won against the Koch funded entities who wanted to turn their state into a Randian laboratory crossed with early 20th century mining barons.

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Literally embracing the meme “Nero fiddling while Rome burns”.

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I have little doubt that Trump is screaming for people to shut down the stock market entirely today.

I ALMOST pity the poor saps that are trying to explain that doing that will make tomorrow even worse.

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