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Via Helena IR:
Montana Senate candidate Matt Rosendale may not be a household name, but he’s surrounded on the campaign trail by President Donald Trump and other big-name Republicans like Vice President Mike Pence, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul.
His opponent, Democratic Sen. Jon Tester? He’s got “The Dude.”
Arguably the biggest name to appear on Tester’s behalf this election season has been actor and part-time Montana resident Jeff Bridges, who played The Dude in the cult classic film “The Big Lebowski.”
That’s no slight by key Democrats, who steered clear of the race despite control of the closely divided Senate potentially at stake. Rather, it is Tester’s calculated effort to distance himself from mainstream party figures and stoke his image as a centrist still rooted in the small agricultural community of Big Sandy where he farms.
Republicans have been throwing all they have at flipping the seat, helping drive spending to record levels. Trump will campaign for Rosendale in Montana for a fourth time Saturday – the most visits to the state by any sitting president. He’s aiming to personally oversee the two-term incumbent’s defeat in retribution for derailing his nominee for Veterans Affairs secretary.
“The headwinds are greater for Tester than they have been in the past,” said former Rep. Pat Williams, a Montana Democrat who served from 1979 to 1997. “Tester’s time in Washington is being used by (Trump supporters) as a political weakness, when always before, Montanans have understood that time in Washington is a political strength.”[…]
Facing all the GOP’s firepower, Tester has stuck with the populist approach that worked for him in his 2006 and 2012 elections. He won both narrowly in a state that’s increasingly tilting Republican. Closing in on the end of another tight race, the question is whether the strategy will withstand Trump’s effort to vanquish Tester.
After Bridges plugged Tester at a get-out-the-vote rally last month in Bozeman, Tester posted a video of the actor describing the Democrat as a “seven-fingered dirt farmer,” a reference to Tester’s life as a grain farmer and the three fingers he lost as a child in a meat grinder.