HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana abruptly dropped his reelection bid on Friday — the second time in the past month that the hardline conservative lawmaker has entered and then quickly dropped out of a congressional race. Rosendale cited defamatory rumors and a death threat against him that prompted the […]
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., announced Friday that he will not seek a third term, citing unspecified “false and defamatory rumors” about him and his family, as well as a death threat. “The current attacks have made it impossible for me to focus on my work to serve you,” Rosendale said in a statement posted to […]
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale announced Wednesday that he will seek reelection to his U.S. House seat representing eastern Montana, after he abandoned a short-lived Senate campaign under pressure from party leaders. Rosendale, a hardline conservative, bucked Republican leaders earlier this month by briefly seeking the GOP nomination to run for the […]
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., has ended his Senate campaign less than a week after he launched it. “As everyone knows, I have planned to run for the U.S. Senate and to win both the primary and the general election,” Rosendale said in a statement. “However, the day I announced, President Trump then announced that he […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republican Congressman Matt Rosendale said Thursday he is dropping his bid for the U.S. Senate less than a week after he got into the race on the same day that former President Donald Trump endorsed his opponent. Rosendale, a hard-line conservative, said in a statement that with Trump’s endorsement of […]
Rep. Matt Rosendale is running for Senate again in Montana, kickstarting a messy fight for the Republican nomination that many party leaders had hoped to avoid in a state that could tip the partisan balance of power in the chamber. Rosendale, who failed to unseat Sen. Jon Tester in 2018, officially launched his bid for […]
Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) launched a Senate bid on Friday and created a messy Republican primary in a must-win state — a move that Senate GOP leaders had been trying to prevent for months. Rosendale, a conservative hardliner who joined seven other Republicans to depose Kevin McCarthy last year, had told colleagues for months that […]
GOP Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana, a member of the hard right House Freedom Caucus, announced Friday he’s running for Senate. “Today, I’m asking for your support to run for the United States Senate,” he said in a video posted on X. Rosendale is the second Republican to jump into the race to unseat incumbent […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale plans to run for U.S. Senate, upending a race in which many national GOP officials already coalesced around a different candidate as they seek to unseat three-term Democrat U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. Rosendale’s intentions were disclosed Wednesday by two people close to the congressman. They […]