Missoula is moonbat central in Montana.
Via Helena IR:
President Donald Trump is making his third trip to Montana during this year’s midterm election, but this time he’s coming to Missoula, one of the most liberal cities in the state.
Trump is set to return for a campaign-style rally in Missoula, tentatively set for Oct. 18. A location hasn’t been announced but sites at the University of Montana campus and the airport are being considered, the Missoulian has learned.
The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office posted on its Facebook page Thursday that it was planning to meet with the U.S. Secret Service about security measures for a presidential visit.
Trump is coming to campaign on behalf of Republican state Auditor Matt Rosendale, who is trying to unseat two-term incumbent Democrat U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in this year’s midterm election.
Montana’s Senate contest is one of the most closely watched in the nation. It’s one of 10 places where incumbent Democratic senators are seeking re-election in states Trump won in 2016.
Trump has also focused on Tester since April, when Tester brought forward allegations made against Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson. Jackson was accused of improperly prescribing medications and drinking while on duty. The Pentagon launched an investigation into the claims and Jackson withdrew his nomination. Trump attacked Tester, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, on Twitter and Fox News, saying he’d have a “big price to pay.”
Trump previously came to Great Falls and Billings, located in two counties seen as potential toss-ups in the election. Tester won Cascade and Yellowstone counties in his most recent election, 2012.
Both counties supported Trump by wide margins in 2016. But in Montana’s ticket-splitting fashion, Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock won Cascade County with 54 percent of the vote that same year and lost to his Republican challenger by only 500 votes in Yellowstone County.[…]
Trump got just 37 percent of the vote in Missoula County; he did worse only in Glacier County in 2016. It’s home to the University of Montana and is thought of as one of the most reliably Democratic areas of the state.
But Missoula borders Ravalli County to the south, one of the most conservative places in the state, and deeply conservative Flathead County is just a short drive to the north. Those two locations are reliable Republican strongholds that often send some of the most conservative GOP lawmakers to the state Legislature. Trump took more than 65 percent of the vote in both counties and Republicans dominated there in other statewide races in 2016.