Montana likes Medicaid so healthcare may not be a great issue to run on in this state.

But illegal immigration & sanctuary cities are definitely great issues to hammer. But they need more than that.

Tying Tester to Pelosi is also very smart in a state where the Democratic Party is very disliked.

might be better off trying to run negative ads against the Democratic Party as a whole than against Jon Tester

^

Democrats go extremely hard left on single payer in Montana because of its relatively poor rural population. It's an official party position in the state to pass single payer.

Both its current and previous governors have tried to institute single payer in the state.

I do think that running ads comparing the local D candidate to Pelosi is not too useful, as shown in PA-18. It's better to just trash the entire Democratic Party as a whole

I think the GOP would be wise to run multiple ads featuring former Democrats who feel disenfranchised by the party

But it's also a strong socially conservative reactionary state which'd rather burn their children alive than vote (D) in a presidential.

Yep.

The Democratic Party has a rich history in Montana.

There are still vestiges of conservative Democrats in the state and they need to be addressed personally imo.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/John_Walsh%2C_official_portrait%2C_113th_Congress.jpg/800px-John_Walsh%2C_official_portrait%2C_113th_Congress.jpg

I love this dude's deer in the headlights look

While he gets rammed by revelations that his college degree is fake

Living in the wolves den so to speak (Missoula). Trying to develop a strategy to maneuver the college trash. 🤔

nice, that's one of the Democratic areas in Montana ?

yes

college town

pretty much all of montana is right wing except a few college towns and the capital

and some indian areas

Deceptively purple state. Solidly red for the presidential elections since 93. But state and legislative elections have a surprisingly strong blue streak. Invoking liberal apathy/blackpilling among the college towns like Missoula and Bozeman will be key.

heblo fellow eastern montana folks

If any of you folks live in an area near colstrip, ask a lefty if they want to shut down the coal mining

Specifically, asking Kathleen about Colstrip's coal industry

<@&417405337960710166> Trump will be rallying here on the 6th of this month, folks.

I live in Montana. Not happy about Rosendale, I wanted Judge Fagg. The fake cowboy drawl in this video makes me sick. He actually talked with a Massachusetts accent. Why can't Montana ever elect someone actually from Montana? SMDH! 🙄

I do think the ad about the Pearl Jam fundraiser poster for Tester depicting Trump's dead body on the WH lawn is a good one.

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Unfortunately the larger towns in Montana are strong blue and that is what makes up the majority of the vote.

I think that if Trump stumps for them enough, it very well could happen

Especially in WV

the wall yeah yeah

we shall see

lol

Trump is far more popular than Manchin in WV, if he makes one rally there, that popularity won't last very much longer

He's been playing a bit friendly with Manchin when it comes to stuff like the department of energy, should he rally in WV and explicitly call out Manchin, it would swing the election in our favor

From what I remember, not sure if Manchin was hit hard by Trump in that rally

http://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1035581546785398785

I see definite potential there