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Daines told the news website Semafor he’d made a “firm” decision that he wouldn’t be a candidate to replace retiring Senate GOP leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

Trump traveled to Montana four times in 2018 to rally against Tester in his last run for reelection, and Tester prevailed.

Tester’s team is trying to reach swing and crossover voters by showing Montanans there are Republicans who want the moderate Democrat to stay in office.

Eli Steinberg writes, "The problem of workers and union voters rushing into the arms of the Republican Party is a problem decades in the making, caused by the mistakes of the Democratic Party and the progressive movement in this country."

While a majority of rank-and-file Republicans oppose a law guaranteeing a nationwide right to abortion, many support laws allowing access to abortion in certain situations.

Roger Koopman writes, "In Republican primaries, becoming truly informed – not miserably misled – is a real challenge these days.  It requires that you, the voter, become a skillful code-breaker of the language of the left."

Katie Sullivan and Ryan Lynch write, "Republicans fight with each other all the time, but it seems the one thing they can agree on is throwing rural Montana under the bus."

The Republican party took a stance on various issues such as transgender women in sports, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s political track record, securing the border, and their opinion on how the current administration has handled past and present wars.

Senate Republican leadership is heading up a last-ditch effort to try to block a court-ordered override poll of a popular bill Gov. Greg Gianforte vetoed last session, making similar arguments the governor made in a lawsuit and the court has disagreed with multiple times.

Former Congressman and Montana lieutenant governor Denny Rehberg announced Wednesday that he’s running for the seat currently held by fellow Republican Matt Rosendale.