All Things with Kim Strassel: All Eyes on Montana

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Montana features one of the hottest--and most consequential--races of the year, as Democrat Jon Tester struggles to gain a fourth term and keep his party in control of the Senate. On this episode of All Things, businessman, veteran and Republican challenger Tim Sheehy talks about the rightward shift in the state, the left's "bizfare" attacks on the Montana company he founded, the huge wash of money into the race and the need for Republicans to get over their "deer in the headlights" moment on abortion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.3	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal this is all things with Kim Strassal a Potomac watch podcast
0:22.1	Welcome to all things with Kim Strossle, a weekly opinion journal podcast, and this week I am here with Tim
0:28.8	Sheehi, former Navy SEAL and businessman who's challenging John Tester for his Montana Senate seat in a race
0:36.1	that could decide if Republicans retake the Senate.
0:39.3	Tim, it's so great to have you on the show.
0:41.1	I was just down in Montana last week in Billings. I think I ran
0:44.6	into quite a few people you know. It's beautiful as always and I wanted to start a little
0:49.2	by talking about the state. All eyes are on Montana. Senate right now is currently split 51 to 49 for Democrats.
0:58.0	West Virginia barring some supernatural event is going to go Republican after the retirement of Joe Manchin.
1:05.2	So Republicans need one more to get control and your state is where both sides have dug
1:11.0	in for battle. And I wanted to just ask you a little bit about the
1:15.2	dynamics there. This is a red state. Trump won it by 16 points in 2020 and yet
1:19.8	John Tester has just been a mainstay in politics in Montana since the 1990s.
1:26.0	He was first elected to the US Senate in 2005, now running for his fourth term.
1:32.0	He's done it by very much presenting himself as working class, a
1:36.2	dirt farmer, defender of veterans, in tune with Montana values. He's never won by double
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