Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, the 22nd Democratic presidential hopeful, announced his decision Tuesday morning to join the vast field of 2020 candidates vying for voters' attention. In other words, though Montana voted handily to elect President Donald Trump in 2016, it also voted for a Democratic
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, the 22nd Democratic presidential hopeful, announced his decision Tuesday morning to join the vast field of 2020 candidates vying for voters' attention. And he claims he'll fill a role no one else does.
In fact, all three of Bullock's statewide election victories took place during a presidential election where Montana voters turned out in support for the top Republican nominee on the ticket.Of the major candidates, there are several who check that box: Mayor Pete Buttigieg is from Indiana; Rep. Tim Ryan is from Ohio; and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke and former Obama Cabinet official Julián Castro are from Texas.
"Today we see evidence of a corrupt system all across America -- a government that serves campaign money, not the people," Bullock said in his announcement video. As attorney general for Montana at the time Citizens United v. FEC was decided, Bullock fought to uphold the state's age-old laws, which were established in 1912 to protect local politics from the money coming in from the state's copper boom.Bullock eventually lost that fight in the Supreme Court, but soon after decided to run for the governor's seat. During his first term, his administration introduced some of the strictest campaign finance laws in the nation.
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