Guess not. Didn't work. Again
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BOZEMAN, Mont. — The Democratic defeat in a hard-fought special House election in Montana on Thursday highlighted the practical limitations on liberal opposition to President Trump and exposed a deepening rift between cautious party leaders, who want to pick their shots in battling for control of Congress in 2018, and more militant grass-roots activists who want to fight the Republicans everywhere.
Rob Quist, the Democratic nominee in Montana, staked his campaign on the Republican health care bill, but he still lost by six percentage points, even after his Republican opponent for the state’s lone House seat, Greg Gianforte, was charged with assaulting a reporter on the eve of the election.
The margin in this race was relatively small in a state that Mr. Trump carried by more than 20 percentage points last year. But Mr. Quist’s defeat disappointed grass-roots Democrats who financed nearly his entire campaign while the national party declined to spend heavily on what it considered, from the outset, an all-but-lost cause in daunting political territory.
- BOZEMAN, Mont. — Greg Gianforte, a wealthy Montana Republican who was charged with assaulting a reporter on Wednesday, nonetheless won the state’s lone seat in the House of Representatives on Thursday, according to The Associated Press, in a special election held up as a test of the country’s political climate.
see what they did there..?
first he's WEALTHY (gasp)...oh the horror...that's terrible. It's a bad thing right there.
Then...oh my goodness...he is accused off assaulting a reporter.
All it takes is accusation. Right? The politics of personal destruction? Right?
Never mind "innocent until proven guilty.'
Oh wait...suppose he IS guilty...of choking the shit out of a reporter?
Huh...they say that like it's a bad thing..
Guess the Montana voters didn't think it was that bad either...
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