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Trump ignites Montana crowd for Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy

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    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -27% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : "Tim Sheehy is going to be an outstanding senator," Trump told the crowd.
62% : Tester's campaign on Friday again pointed to the formation of the group "Republicans for Tester" that launched earlier this week, along with the times in the past Trump has signed legislation drafted by Tester.
61% : He's a United States marine, he's a real marine," Trump said of his running mate.
54% : Sunam Jang, 27, who traveled from South Korea to attend these rallies across the U.S., said that the near miss "can't be explained any other way than God," a sentiment echoed by multiple other rallygoers.Nearly an hour and a half into his speech, Trump brought Sheehy on stage with him briefly.
53% : Tester went public in the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs -- of which Tester was a ranking member at the time -- when Trump nominated Jackson to be secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
50% : "I gotta like Tim Sheehy a lot to be here," Trump said, after remarking on how large the state is and how long it takes to travel in.
50% : "Sheehy touched on his military service, his company, immigration and ripped on Democrats, speaking for roughly 10 minutes before Trump.
49% : "Trump, too, acknowledged taking time out of his schedule to travel to a red state with four electoral votes.
47% : Trump said the same on stage.
45% : Trump is in Montana for the fifth time in recent years and all the visits have been to campaign against Tester.
44% : The weight of Montana's U.S. Senate race was clear to Trump, Sheehy and the crowd.
43% : Trump spoke to a full Brick Breeden Fieldhouse on Montana State University's campus.
41% : "On top of that strategic element, there seems to be a real animus on the part of Trump towards Tester.
41% : "Trump also homed in on the recent assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania during which a bullet from a gunman grazed his ear just as he was turning to look at a chart related to the southern border with Mexico.
40% : "For Trump?
37% : "For those of you that don't believe in God, I believe there's only one reason that could've happened," Trump said.
34% : "The road to the United States Senate comes right through Montana and that's why we have to do our part to retire liberal Jon Tester," Montana GOP Chairman Don "K" Kaltschmidt said to huge applause before Trump took the stage.
33% : "Multiple people told the Montana State News Bureau that they believe Trump was saved from the assassination attempt by God.
32% : I have never seen a stomach like that," Trump said of Tester.
30% : Nicole, a Missoula resident who declined to share her last name because "you lose your friends" for supporting Trump, said she voted for Tester in 2012, but when Trump burst onto the political scene her voting patterns changed.
28% : Sheehy says that if Trump gets to the White House, but doesn't have majority control of the Senate, he won't be able to get things done.
25% : Trump went on stage an hour and a half late after his plane was diverted to Billings and spoke until about 11:15 p.m."We're going to evict crazy Kamala," he said.
24% : But some Montanans who were there for Trump still harbor some skepticism of the Republican candidate.
23% : The event was held in support of Sheehy, but Trump mostly focused on his own tight race against Harris.
20% : "Despite Trump saying "Tester and I have nothing to do with each other," Tester's campaign has been moving to align the senator with the former president while simultaneously attempting to distance Tester from President Joe Biden.
20% : Trump came to Montana four times in 2018 to campaign against Tester in Matt Rosendale's unsuccessful bid to unseat the senator.
7% : "He's a radical left lunatic just like Kamala and we've got to elect Tim," Trump said.

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