Video: Global Warming Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit ...

Article: Global Warming Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit ...

Article: Global Warming Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit ...

Entry: Global Warming Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit ...

Video: Global Warming Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit ...

Trump in Kalispell? Count me in.

When the announcement was made that the president would be visiting my hometown on Oct. 14 in support of Aaron Flint’s campaign to replace Ryan Zinke as the congressman from Montana District 1, there was no doubt I would be there.

After all, I had been one of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters, writing a column lauding his uncanny political skills in the Daily Inter Lake in August 2015, just six weeks after he launched his presidential bid and while he was still considered a joke by the mainstream media. Over the next three years, my unabashed support of Trump while I was editor made me many enemies and even more friends.

One of the friends I made was Aaron Flint, a morning radio host out of Billings, Montana. Aaron was giving voice to the same conservative ideas that both Trump and I were espousing, and I appeared on his radio program many times over the next eight years. But I had no idea just how popular he was until he announced his campaign for Zinke’s seat.

In a hotly contested primary, novice politician Flint rose to the top and stayed there. His popularity was even more evident at Wednesday’s rally, where he was greeted just as enthusiastically as President Trump, who won Flathead County by margins of 36% in 2016, 16% in 2020, and 33% in 2024.

That being said, some of you may be surprised that Trump chose to campaign for Flint in his race against Democrat Sam Forstag. After all, why shouldn’t Flint be comfortably ahead in the red state of Montana?

There is actually an answer to that. The First District was intentionally drawn in 2022 to make it more competitive – to give Democrats a chance to win in a gesture of fairness even though Montana as a whole is solidly red. As a result, both........

© RealClearPolitics