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McClatchy Washington Bureau
January 17, 2018
Its surprise competitiveness has persuaded the White House to send Trump to appear with Republican candidate Rick Saccone there Thursday, a show of .... for a candidate accustomed to uncapped political donations (Pennsylvania campaign finance law, unlike federal rules, allows candidates to collectÃÂ ...
Montana Standard
January 10, 2018
The Citizens United case allowed corporations to make independent expenditures, with no limits, on behalf of their favored candidates. Most of these expenditures are ... Ellingson is a lawyer in Missoula. He served in the Montana Legislature from 1995 to 2006, and was Senate Majority Leader, 2005-06.
WTHITV.com
January 9, 2018
Joe Arpaio, former Maricopa County sheriff pardoned by Trump, announced that he is entering the 2018 Senate race. .... by the fact that he still runs a farm -- allowed him to win in 2006 and 2012 despite Montana's history of voting for Republican presidential nominees (Trump won by 21 points here).
STLtoday.com
January 8, 2018
McCaskill raised $2.9 million in the last three months of the year, her campaign spokeswoman, Meira Bernstein, told the Post-Dispatch on Monday. ... Jim Talent in 2006. But McCaskill enters 2018 as one of the Senate's most vulnerable Democrats. She is seeking re-election in a state that voted forÃÂ ...
CNN
January 3, 2018
Here's a look at the 10 Senate seats most likely to switch party hands in this year's midterms, as of January 2018: .... bolstered by the fact that he still runs a farm -- allowed him to win in 2006 and 2012 despite Montana's history of voting for Republican presidential nominees (Trump won by 21 points here).
CNN
December 21, 2017
His unpopularity, especially in key states with bellwether Senate races, will make it difficult for him to fully endorse some Republican candidates. ... of sexual impropriety by multiple women near the end of the campaign, was a unique candidate, but the loss has some Republicans girding for a difficult 2018.
The Tennessean
December 19, 2017
Mae Beavers resigned the seat to focus on her gubernatorial campaign, setting up the special election in a heavily Republican district that spans ... "2018 means data-driven, digitally-focused campaigns." ... Carfi, a Lebanon resident and Mt. Juliet attorney, ran as a first-time candidate for political office.
TPM
December 31, 1999
Amidst growing signs of a potentially huge Democratic wave in the 2018 midterm elections, a raft of key Republican would-be candidates are ... Cramer's decision after both President Trump and Senate GOP leaders pushed to run leaves them without a well-known candidate in a state Trump carried byÃÂ ...
CNN
December 21, 2017
His unpopularity, especially in key states with bellwether Senate races, will make it difficult for him to fully endorse some Republican candidates. ... of sexual impropriety by multiple women near the end of the campaign, was a unique candidate, but the loss has some Republicans girding for a difficult 2018.
The Tennessean
December 20, 2017
Mae Beavers resigned the seat to focus on her gubernatorial campaign, setting up the special election in a heavily Republican district that spans ... "2018 means data-driven, digitally-focused campaigns." ... Carfi, a Lebanon resident and Mt. Juliet attorney, ran as a first-time candidate for political office.
Roll Call
December 19, 2017
When Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race last week, Jones became the first Democrat to be elected statewide there since 2006. When he is sworn into the Senate a few weeks from now, he will notice he's not like the others, since he and Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida will be the onlyÃÂ ...
Politico
December 13, 2017
Democrats' special election win in Alabama has cracked open a path to the Senate majority in 2018 that looked all but impassable before Tuesday night. ... Both candidates start as underdogs: Bredesen hasn't run a race since 2006, and the state has become markedly more conservative since then.
WDIV ClickOnDetroit
December 12, 2017
Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones are vying for a seat in the U.S. Senate in Alabama on Tuesday, December 12, 2017. ..... It was a boon to the Jones campaign's efforts to turn out African-American voters -- but to hear the candidate tell it Monday morning, the whole thing was a mystery.
WDIV ClickOnDetroit
December 12, 2017
Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones' campaign will roll out a statewide robocall on Monday quoting Republican Sen. Richard Shelby's emphatic criticisms .... And he's backing candidates in primaries in 2018 battlegrounds like Montana and West Virginia. The whole thing could give the GOPÃÂ ...
CNN
December 6, 2017
Thirty-two Democratic senators -- 13 female and 19 male -- called on Franken to resign as allegations of sexual harassment against him continue to mount. ... Cory Booker of New Jersey, Gary Peters of Michigan, Jon Tester of Montana and Sherrod Brown of Ohio also called for Franken to step down. Sen.
New York Magazine
November 30, 2017
In part the product of two exceptionally good years for Senate Democrats in 2006 (when they gained five net seats) and 2012 (when they gained two more), the ... Ten Democratic seats up this year are in states (Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,ÃÂ ...
KTVQ Billings News
November 24, 2017
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, bracing for another tough election battle in 2018, received at least 81 percent of his nearly $8 million campaign war chest from sources outside Montana, an MTN analysis shows. Tester, one of several Democratic incumbent senators up for election in states won handily by PresidentÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
August 25, 2017
When Howard Dean ran a 50-state strategy in 2006, he was successful because he ran candidates that fit the demographic of the district.
KPAX-TV
August 25, 2017
2006 - Wins a seat on the US Senate with 65% of the vote. ... May 1, 2015 - Sanders' campaign raises more than $1.5 million in its first 24 hoursÃÂ ...
Rasmussen Reports
August 25, 2017
All of the 33 Senate incumbents up for reelection next year are running for ... as Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia, but otherwise ... Several of these safe senators could be presidential candidates in 2020, ... Corker's first election in 2006, during the Democrats' last good midterm,ÃÂ ...
AL.com
August 13, 2017
Voters haven't elected a Democrat to statewide office since 2006, or to the Senate since 1992. ... on in and around this election and not just with the candidates," said ... multi-candidate primaries don't usually have national implications. ... The biggest surprise in the Senate campaign occurred on Tuesday,ÃÂ ...
Great Falls Tribune
August 12, 2017
HELENA -- Mary Sexton was elected the chair of the Montana Democratic ... with candidates who will win elections,” Sexton said in a news release. ... to take back the state Legislature, take back the House, re-elect Sen. ... Sexton served as director of Natural Resources and Conservation Sexton from 2006ÃÂ ...
Helena Independent Record
August 11, 2017
U.S. Senator Jon Tester speaks to party leaders at the Montana Democrats ... races, having been first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 by just 2,847 votes. ... Bench initiative to recruit candidates for city, county and state-level races. .... Earned money donated to elect the best candidate or the tax payersÃÂ ...
MinnPost
August 4, 2017
Midterm elections are usually bad for the party in power: 1994, 2006, ... and Montana, which all went for Trump by double-digit margins, or close to them. ... Klobuchar, and other senators has practical benefits for candidates, but ... could convince a prospective candidate that they may not be able to keep up.
Politico
August 1, 2017
They've worked closely with House Democrats' campaign arm on recruitment in recent ... Yet the effort by Schumer, the Senate minority leader, isn't the last word. ... “There is no question that quality candidates and campaigns that focus on the ... People in California, Montana, Florida and Missouri wantÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
July 31, 2017
The central illusion of a Presidential campaign is that a candidate can, through ... Sanders, who has represented Vermont in the Senate for the past decade, .... my stomach” when she picked up the newspaper during those campaigns. ... Our Revolution, to support progressive candidates around the country,ÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
July 23, 2017
The renegade musician and prospective candidate for U.S. Senate is an ... that he is considering a campaign for U.S. Senate in Michigan was met with .... after cruising to reelection by 15 points in 2006 and 20 points in 2012. ... who has worked numerous Michigan campaigns and was formerly the stateÃÂ ...
KPAX-TV
July 22, 2017
January 3, 2006 - Donates $70,000 of campaign contributions from companies associated with lobbyist Jack Abramoff to charity after AbramoffÃÂ ...
The Tennessean
July 19, 2017
Monday's disclosure deadline revealed the candidates in the race so far ... Tennessee's most expensive election came in 2006, when Bob ... another $3.4 million of their own finances into their campaigns. ... Although Sen. Mae Beavers, a Mt. Juliet Republican, transferred $20,000 from her state campaignÃÂ ...
Business Insider
July 15, 2017
Of the 11 Senate seats the party controls in states President Donald Trump ... the Democrats having "some very strong candidates" who are "tailor made" ... West Virginia, Montana, Missouri — these are big Trump states," he continued. ... As a Democratic staffer close to the campaigns told Business Insider,ÃÂ ...
PolitiFact
December 31, 1999
Republican Senate hopeful's absurd claim Montana Sen. ... We asked Rosendale's campaign for evidence that Tester supports a ... (Tester expressed concern as early as 2006 that maintaining such ... Republican Candidate.
CNN
December 31, 1999
... from a different party than the presidential candidate who carried the seat.) ... On the Senate side, where redistricting isn't a factor, Democrats are a victim of their own successes. Democrats won six Republican seats in the 2006 election. ... Five of those 10 -- North Dakota, Missouri, Montana, West VirginiaÃÂ ...
seattlepi.com
March 29, 2017
Trump was carrying through his 2016 campaign pledge to revive the coal industry, as he issued an Executive Order to withdraw and rewrite the Clean Power Plan, a key climate initiative of the Obama administration.
ABC FOX Montana News
March 29, 2017
Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said that sales of prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999, taking a financial toll on the government and a deadly toll on thousands of consumers.
Circleville Herald
March 28, 2017
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's first quest for a hard eight began long before Neil Gorsuch's days as a Senate witness made it as easy as it's ever going to be for the president to win his first big judicial bet.
Los Angeles Times
March 24, 2017
Twenty-three candidates are vying to succeed new state Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra. Los Angeles Times ... Hunter under the gun: California Rep. Duncan Hunter is under criminal investigation by the Justice Department over alleged campaign finance ...
Helena Independent Record
March 24, 2017
Legislative leaders have ended a stalemate and will forward two names for Montana Gov. ... Steve Bullock to consider for the next commissioner of political practices to oversee the state's campaign, ethics and lobbying regulations. ... Mangan served in ...
Helena Independent Record
March 24, 2017
I'm one of those "newcomers" to Montana - I've been here "only" 22 years. My husband and I raised our kids here.
Daily Kos
March 22, 2017
More than 26,675 environmentally oriented stories have been rescued to appear in this series since 2006. ..... He Waged Intimidation Campaigns Against Climate Scientists; Now He's Helping giving up trying to help Trump Remake destroy the EPA. ... In ...
MyStatesman.com
March 22, 2017
Though Democrats need to win just three seats to take over the Senate, the lay of the political landscape appears to strongly favor Republicans, who are defending nine seats in the 2018 midterm election, compared with more than twice that - 25 - for ...
Daily Kos
March 22, 2017
More than 26,675 environmentally oriented stories have been rescued to appear in this series since 2006. ..... He Waged Intimidation Campaigns Against Climate Scientists; Now He's Helping giving up trying to help Trump Remake destroy the EPA. ... In ...
Yahoo News
March 22, 2017
As Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch faces a Senate confirmation vote, a 2006 book he authored arguing against assisted suicide and euthanasia is receiving renewed attention, and so is the related, although distinct, practice of medical aid inÃÂ ...
MyPalmBeachPost
March 22, 2017
Looking at the numbers, Democrats seem to have a better chance seizing control of the Senate in 2018 than winning a majority and clawing their way back to power in the House.
KUNC
March 22, 2017
March 22 marks the final day of Judge Neil Gorsuch's questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee. KUNC will continue our live coverage of the event here.
NBC Montana
March 22, 2017
Trump, a Presbyterian, made Liberty University last year the venue for his most concerted pitch to evangelical Christian voters, some of whom had disavowed his campaign and backed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 GOP primary. "Christianity, it's underÃÂ ...
ABC FOX Montana News
March 22, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to ...
ABC FOX Montana News
March 21, 2017
Angle shot to national attention in 2010 when she attempted to best Nevada Democrat and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a high-profile challenge from a tea party candidate. She and Amodei did not return messages seeking comment Tuesday.
INFORUM
March 20, 2017
Just last week I signed onto a bill with Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, to get our politics into the sunlight and limit the influence of big money donors.
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2017
Looking at the numbers, Democrats seem to have a better chance seizing control of the Senate in 2018 than winning a majority and clawing their way back to power in the House.
Daily Kos
March 20, 2017
During the campaign, Stockman hit his primary opponent with fake tabloids blazing headlines like, "Stephen Takach drove family friend into bankruptcy" and "Takach smears Stockman for taking care of his Alzheimer's-stricken father.
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