Whenever Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell finishes buffering he might want to take a look at this new survey of Montana Republican primary voters that Semafor picked up showing Freedom Caucasian Matt Rosendale with a 55 to 19 percent lead over NRSC “establishment” favorite Tim Sheehy in the 2024 primary race to take on incumbent Dem Senator Jon Tester. Rosendale, who already lost to Tester in 2018 before he ran for the House and won in 2020, is for that very obvious reason not McConnell or fellow Montanan NRSC chief Steve Danies’s preferred pick.
He’s also just a fucking asshole in general, and just a slightly more low-key white nationalist of the Paul Gosar-Marjorie Taylor Greene flavor so their antipathy goes beyond simple questions of electability – which may matter less with Trump at the top of the ticket. Tester edged Rosendale out by 3.5 percent in 2018, no small feat in a pretty safely red state, however next year the Orange God Emperor will be at the top of the ticket which will make it tougher for Dems to defend.