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The closely watched race is shaping up to challenge records for campaign spending — just like other hotly contested Senate races in Montana in 2018 and 2020.

Political consultants and Beltway pollsters are setting up camp in purple states to join a towering battle for control of a narrowly split U.S. Senate, but come November, only the voters will make that choice.

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.

The announcement sets up a Republican primary showdown to see who can secure the party’s nomination to challenge Democrat U.S. Sen. Jon Tester.

Millions more in independent expenditures were also reported this quarter in the Senate race – one of the top races nationwide in 2024.

The campaigns of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester and Republican candidate Tim Sheehy are both reporting they brought in millions of dollars over the last three months.

Tim Sheehy, the Bridger Aerospace CEO rumored for months as a recruit for the Republican primary to face incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in next year’s election, announced his candidacy for the race Tuesday morning.

Democrats on the U.S. Senate panel discussed the need for the passage of legislation to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination given the tide of legislation in the states aiming to curb their rights.