Trump rallies thousands in Bozeman in support of GOP Senate candidate Sheehy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : "Trump went back to Sheehy more than an hour into his speech, bringing him onstage and praising his military career, business, and calling him "handsome.""Tim Sheehy, you've got to vote for him," Trump told the crowd.
64% : Trump has won Montana with broad support in the last two presidential elections, and the Republican nominee for president said as much in the outset of his speech to a full house of around 8,000 people at Brick Breeden Fieldhouse at Montana State University.
64% : "I think we're going to have the greatest election victory in the history of our country," Trump said.
61% : Trump took the stage around 9:30 p.m. to a fully packed fieldhouse that had filled out throughout the earlier speakers; security was extremely tight to enter the rally.
54% : The rally featured appearances by most of the Republican candidates for statewide and federal offices in Montana this year, including Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Susie Hedalen, Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen, Montana GOP Chairperson Don Kaltschmidt, Attorney General Austin Knudsen, 1st Congressional District Rep. Ryan Zinke, 2nd Congressional District candidate Troy Downing, U.S. Sen Steve Daines and Gov. Greg Gianforte, who all urged the crowd to get out and support Sheehy and Trump this year for the good of the party's political ideology.
52% : In 2018, Trump visited Montana four times in support of Matt Rosendale, who lost to Tester that year.
50% : "I gotta like Tim Sheehy a lot to be here," Trump said, also commenting multiple times about how much driving and traveling he had to do Friday to get around Montana with his plane landing in Billings and him having a fundraiser south of Bozeman before he spoke.
45% : "He told the supporters that even if Trump wins the White House, not having a Republican Senate majority will hamstring his efforts.
41% : "Trump also repeatedly mentioned what he still falsely says was a "rigged election" in 2020 and said the Republican National Committee was working at an effort to repeat those efforts this year.
40% : "I wish they'd make our country great, but they're going to destroy our country," Trump said.
27% : "We're gonna evict crazy Kamala and we're going to get Joe Biden out of the White House," Trump told the crowd before launching into a meandering speech that lasted more than an hour and a half, discussing Biden's dropping out, his hopes Biden would re-enter the race, his assertion that he had the strongest economy and border security in U.S. history and would bring them back on "day one," and attacking the LGBTQ community, press and Harris-Walz ticket.
23% : "Trump brought Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a former physician to the president, on stage to air his animus for Tester six years after Tester helped tank Trump's effort to put Jackson in as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in 2018 by bringing to light complaints Jackson had overprescribed certain medications and was drinking on the job.
21% : Sheehy said he had been growing angry watching U.S. forces die in Afghanistan before Trump took office but his support for Trump was solidified when he ordered the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in 2020 in Iraq.
14% : "You're the guy that dropped the bomb on that son-of-a-bitch Soleimani, and I'll always have your back for that," Sheehy said.To round out his speech, Trump gave shoutouts to the Montana Republicans who had helped introduce him, said he would deport "pro-Hamas radicals," demolish drug cartels, restore peace between Ukraine and Russia, stop taxes on Social Security and tipping, cut federal funding for universities, and build an Iron Dome over the entire U.S. like the one protecting Israel from missile attacks.
12% : If Harris wins, a never-ending stream of illegal alien rapists," Trump said.
9% : Trump called the U.S. a "failing nation" and claimed the Biden-Harris administration was purposefully harming the country.
8% : The Montana Republicans who spoke before Sheehy and Trump kept up their ongoing attacks against Tester, new Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

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