Tester, Sheehy square off in first debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Tester said while in the Senate he's worked to pass things like the MISSION Act that allows veterans to get care outside the VA structure if they live in more rural areas where services aren't readily available.
45% : Abortion is legal in Montana under state Supreme Court precedent, though Republicans are asking the court to revisit that while those who support access are seeking to qualify a ballot measure to add the right explicitly to the state Constitution.
43% : Republicans nationally have wrestled with how to proceed as some states including those like reliably red Kansas have moved to protect access and Trump at the top of the ticket has been less than clear about what federal policies he'd back.
40% : ""The policies that have come out of this administration have directly caused this crisis, and now what we're seeing, five months before the election, is pathetic political pandering to the American people, trying to hoodwink them into thinking that this is an accident that could have been avoided when in fact, this was an intentional -- an intentional -- border crisis," Sheehy said.
26% : But he said it's Republicans that have played politics with the issue by killing a bipartisan deal brokered in Congress after Trump came out in opposition of it.

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