Posted on 09/06/2018 11:49:15 PM PDT by Kaslin
The last time President Trump traveled to Montana, Democrat Senator Jon Tester welcomed him with open arms, placing full-page ads in 14 newspapers praising the President.
This time, Tester won’t be so excited to see Donald Trump. With a big boost from the President at the Great Falls rally on July 5, Tester’s opponent has since gained ground in the race for the U.S. Senate.
Prior to that visit, the Republican Senate candidate Matt Rosendale was trailing Democrat incumbent, Senator Jon Tester, by 8 points. Just one month later, the Republican candidate has flipped 10 points and now leads Tester 47 percent to 45 percent.
Thousands of people who showed up in Great Falls in July to hear the President speak left the arena with a fiery enthusiasm for the America First agenda. Their excitement is reflected in Rosendale’s rise in the polls.
Montana is just a small reflection of what’s possible when Donald Trump gets involved.
In case after case across the country, the Trump effect has manifested itself in both GOP primaries and general election outcomes. Through campaign rallies and midterm endorsements, President Trump is impacting races across the 2018 political landscape. He’ll make a huge, if not decisive, difference in November.
President Trump has had a near perfect record in special House elections, and endorsed over a dozen Republican candidates who went on to win their respective primaries.
For instance, when Republican congressional candidate Troy Balderson was trailing in the special election for Ohio’s 12th Congressional District, President Trump saved the day with a last minute rally in Delaware County, a pivotal area of the district. His intervention ultimately secured Balderson’s victory.
That track record of success is bad news for Jon Tester. When President Trump visits Billings on Thursday night, he won’t hesitate to remind Montanans just what Tester stands for — and just what they stand to lose if Tester is reelected.
Tester voted against the tax cuts that created thousands of new jobs and higher paychecks for Montanans, supports sanctuary cities that protect illegal aliens, and has voted against nearly every single one of the President’s appointments.
Tester and his fellow Democrats also threaten the incredible economic progress we’ve gained across Montana. In July, the Montana unemployment rate dropped to 3.7 percent — its lowest level in 11 years — and the state has added nearly 7,000 jobs since the President took office.
Ultimately, President Trump’s visit to Billings will remind the people of Montana that despite Jon Tester’s promises to represent them faithfully, he’s done little but represent the interests of the Democrat Party.
Tester may praise President Trump yet again, but when the President comes to town and reminds Montanans just what’s at stake in November, no number of gushing newspaper ads will be enough to save Jon Tester from the Trump effect.
Yes ! Plus he understands the importance of marketing and networking remember one of the first rallies when he handled an alinsky attack with finesse. DR Carson gave a knowing smile and I realized “they knew each other”. Started researching when and how (St Jude children’s hospital) and shortly after the Dr appeared on F&F and confirmed “Yes they knew each other for years DJT was just another guy in the —pause—area (neighborhood)”. I laughed out loud.
Remember how the cabal divided the field and won (EX Gingrich) Well DJT beat them at their own game. Cristi, Carson had been friends of his for decades. They ran as his wing men. Dividing the establishment base !
Map and discussion here 1417 -1429
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3684530/posts?page=1429#1429
Montana and North Dakota are the last holdouts of what we called the Prairie Empire syndrome. West Virgina is in a similar vein. They flaunt a few socially conservative credentials to get over the finish line because a certain subset of the Bubba voters are addicted to government pork.
Our own village idiot (Bob Casey, Jr.) gets just enough of the Bubba vote for the same reason, so even though WV/PA are not "Prairie Empire" per se, there is a similar demographic in play.
Freeper Knarf is sort of an expert on this topic and if you have access to a way-back legacy link tracer he even lists an article I wrote over 10 years ago at http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a39eab7333557.htm
“I believe Heitcamp is North Dakota.”
I guess! It one of those two states where your nuts freeze off in the winter!
Northern Minnesota has had below-freezing record cold already.
“Northern Minnesota has had below-freezing record cold already.”
I flew into Minneapolis-St. Paul on business in February one year. It was 9 degrees and sunny. On the ride in from the airport I sat next to a fellow from Minot, ND. He said he was glad to be where it was warm. My actual business was in Redwood Falls. I rented a FWD Explorer just in case. The next morning, we had a hurry up business meeting, because the plant was closing because of an impending blizzard. I drove in the blizzard back to Minneapolis and along the way picked up a stranded motorist an dropped her where she was trying to get to. Here in California, snow is something you go to to ski on, not live in.
HA....Bozeman is now referred to (by locals)....BOZANGELES...
Actually Montana has become more patriotic over time. Western Montana, due to the booming mines, an influx of Irish and eastern Europeans miners, the dangerous working conditions, and violence against miners instigated by the Copper Kings lead to communist agitation in cities like Butte, Anaconda, and Livingston. Also, homesteading in Montana occurred at a later time than the rest of the west, more than 80,000 homesteaders moved into Montana between 1909 and the early 1920's and many of them were European immigrants steeped in Marxism.
Here are some sources:
https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/life/my-montana/2014/05/25/death-came-in-many-forms-during-red-era/9511253/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte,_Montana_labor_riots_of_1914
Billings, a cattle and oil town, is what keeps the Republicans in the game.
Bozeman, Helena, Butte, Missoula-—all are bright blue now.
The rural vote is all over the place, with older folks, Roosevelt Dems, people scared about health care and so on, facing off against miners, loggers, farmers and cattle ranchers who were leaned on hard by Obama and his gangs.
Californians and East Coast billionairs have been moving in for years. They’re almost all Leftists and are moving the state closer and closer to the kind of idiot policies that wrecked the cities they left behind.
Blackburn has to get the conversation about impeachment and the border, to put Bredesen on the defensive. I’m not sure she’s doing that. She seems to be kind of a GOPe type and those types don’t want to do that.
Montana is a mixed bag state. Lots of liberal idiots in the college towns of Bozeman and Missoula. Lots of union types in Butte. Way too many Indian reservations where they vote demonrat reflexively. Gubmint liberal idiots control Helena.
Conservatives stronger in Great Falls, Billings and the eastern part of the state, and most of the smaller towns and counties. It’s always a struggle to keep the evil demons at bay in Montana.
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