DEMS/ELECTION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [9-6-18] urged Montanans to support Republican Matt Rosendale for Senate, recalling Sen. Jon Tester’s derailing of a Cabinet nominee and warning that the Democratic lawmaker is ‘never going to give us his vote’…Rosendale is running in a tight race against Tester in a state Trump carried by 20 points. But Tester has tried to loosely embrace the president, which Trump said made him feel ‘a little bit guilty’ about campaigning against him. Tester, the top Democrat on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, released an ad on Thursday before Trump arrived in Montana touting Tester’s bills that had been signed into law by the president, which Trump said was ‘like a love letter’…Tester played a central role in sinking Jackson’s nomination by going public with accusations of workplace misconduct while Jackson served as physician to President Barack Obama, which included drunkenly crashing a government car, drinking on the job and handing out prescriptions ‘like candy.’”
–Caitlin Oprysko, “Trump boosts Rosendale in tight Montana Senate race,” Politico, September 7, 2018 9:25 am