Desperate times call for desperate measures:
With voters less than a day away from heading to the polls for a special election to fill an open U.S. House seat in Montana, President Donald Trump has recorded a robocall making a last-minute pitch for the Republican candidate.
“Hi, this is President Donald Trump, and I know what the people of Montana really want and really care about: lower taxes, good paying jobs, secure borders — and we’ve done a great job on those borders — and protecting your God-given right to bear arms, your Second Amendment,” he says in a recording of the robocall obtained by CNN. “If you don’t vote tomorrow, the liberal Democrats running for Congress will decimate and dismantle all that we’ve done.”
Trump then urges voters to support Republican candidate Greg Gianforte in the call, which was paid for by the Republican National Committee.
We’ll see tomorrow if it will help or hurt Gianforte but Quist hasn’t been shy about making this race about Trump’s health care bill:
After the presidential election last November, Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway argued that Hillary Clinton lost because she focused too much on trying to disqualify Trump, instead of speaking to voters' concerns.
"There’s a difference for voters between what offends you and what affects you," she said.
That's a lesson that Democrats seem to have taken to heart in a special election for an open House seat in Montana Thursday. Democratic candidate Rob Quist,
a banjo-playing folk singer, has spent the closing days of the campaign talking about how the Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would affect voters,
running ads that talk about protecting people with pre-existing conditions and discussing financial problems he faced after
gall-bladder surgery.
House Majority PAC, the principal outside Democratic group focused on House races, chipped in more than $150,000 for last-minute ads that also centered on the Republican health care proposal. And Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who did a whirlwind tour of the state with Quist the final weekend before the election, railed against the bill at their events.
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