BREAKING: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat and red state winner, announces presidential run.
in 2020 as they tell pollsters they do, then Steve Bullock has a case to make, even with 21 other candidates in the race.Tuesday, highlighting the fact that he's the only candidate in the race to have won in a red state.
"We need to defeat Donald Trump in 2020 and defeat the corrupt system that lets campaign money drown out the people's voice, so we can finally make good on the promise of a fair shot for everyone," Bullock said in a statement.Bullock will speak later in the day at a high school in Helena, where his daughter is a student, and then head to Iowa later this week.
He entered the race so late because had to wait for Montana's legislature, which meets for only a few months every two years, to conclude its work on some 300 bills.Bullock is hardly a household name, even in households of political junkies. At a gathering of progressive activists last summer in New Orleans, Bullock had to introduce himself and moderate a panel on Net Neutrality in a small room, while better-known contenders like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
But allies of the easygoing 53-year-old lawyer, known for wearing cowboy boots and jeans as much as suits, think he could be the next candidate to have a breakout moment, following former Rep. Beto O'Rourke and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana. Core to Bullock's case is that he won Montana twice, including his reelection in 2016 on the same night as Donald Trump won it in a landslide.
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