{"id":1134,"date":"2024-02-16T12:05:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T12:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/montana-rep-matt-rosendale-withdraws-from-senate-race-days-after-announcing-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T12:05:56","slug":"montana-rep-matt-rosendale-withdraws-from-senate-race-days-after-announcing-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/montana-rep-matt-rosendale-withdraws-from-senate-race-days-after-announcing-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale withdraws from Senate race days after announcing campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Less than a week after announcing his run for Senate, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) is withdrawing from the race, citing former president Donald Trump\u2019s decision to endorse his opponent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe day I announced, President Trump then announced that he was endorsing a different candidate,\u201d Rosendale said in a statement on Thursday announcing his decision to exit the race. \u201cI have long been a supporter of the President, and remain so. But I have been forced to calculate what my chances of success would be with Trump supporting my opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Trump endorsing my opponent and the lack of resources, the hill was just too steep\u201d to continue the campaign, Rosendale\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n

Rosendale announced his decision to run for Senate in Montana last Friday, sparking a competitive Republican primary in the state. But when Rosendale announced, several high-profile Republicans had already rallied behind another candidate, former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, to unseat Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.).<\/p>\n

In the launch of his campaign, Rosendale sought to cast himself as a candidate opposed to the Washington establishment. And he also pitched himself as the candidate in the race with the closest ties to Trump, saying in a campaign video that he \u201cvoted in support of President Trump\u2019s agenda every single time\u201d and that he \u201cstood with President Trump and voted against the electors\u201d on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

But just hours after Rosendale announced his candidacy, Trump endorsed Sheehy in the Senate race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also respect Matt Rosendale, and was very happy to Endorse him in the past \u2014 and will Endorse him again in the future should he decide to change course and run for his Congressional Seat,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social in his endorsement of Sheehy. \u201cBut in this instance, Tim is the candidate who is currently best-positioned to DEFEAT \u2026 Tester, and Regain the Republican Majority in the United States Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), who holds significant influence as the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, had also backed Sheehy in the race. Rosendale said in his statement on Thursday that he spoke with Daines earlier this week \u201cand we both agreed that this is the best path forward for Republicans to regain the majority in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

The Republican Senate primary is set for June 4.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear whether Rosendale will seek another term representing Montana\u2019s 2nd Congressional District. The field of candidates running in his district \u2014 particularly within the Republican primary \u2014 is crowded. Prominent names in the race include Kenneth Bogner, the president pro tempore of the Montana Senate, and Troy Downing, Montana\u2019s state auditor.<\/p>\n

Hayden Godfrey contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on The Washington Post<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Less than a week after announcing his run for Senate, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) is withdrawing from the race, citing former president Donald Trump\u2019s decision to endorse his opponent. \u201cThe day I announced, President Trump then announced that he was endorsing a different candidate,\u201d Rosendale said in a statement on Thursday announcing his decision to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}