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The end of Montana's legislative session Tuesday night means that the GOP proposal to conduct the 2024 Senate election using top-two rules in order to weaken Democratic incumbent Jon Tester is officially dead...it passed the state Senate last month. A state House committee, though, tabled the measure weeks later, and an attempt to resurrect the top-two also failed a short time later.
One other Republican has decided not to stay in the race for U.S. Senate. Jeremy Mygland, who owns a construction business...announced last week that he would instead run for the Montana Senate. In his statement, he praised Rosendale and encouraged him to enter the race to challenge Tester.
He told Montana Free Press last week that he didn't want to be considered the spoiler in what's expected to be a tight race between Tester and Sheehy.
There was speculation Zinke could enter the race, but that speculation now shut down with this endorsement.
Zinke plans to run for reelection, setting up a potential rematch of the 2022 race.
Manchin is backing Tester and has tried to stop senator-vs.-senator campaign appearances, even previously endorsing two moderate Republicans.
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