MT-SEN 2020: Time for Bullock?

[President Johnson]

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Bullock should keep a senate run as his "reserve option" if he can't make it to the presidential nomination. He's probably the strongest Democrat to challenge Daines. However, he's one of the best candidates to beat Trump.

[President Johnson]

I don't know why so many folks think he has no chance to get the nomination. The list of pros for a Bullock nomination is far longer than the cons, even from a neutral perspective. Because he is a white male? Wouldn't this be the very definition of identity politics? Sure, he's from a state with just a million people, but it's not that only large state governors have ended up in the Oval Office. In early 1976, nobody knew who Jimmy Carter was for example.

[President Johnson]

I don't know why so many folks think he has no chance to get the nomination. The list of pros for a Bullock nomination is far longer than the cons, even from a neutral perspective. Because he is a white male? Wouldn't this be the very definition of identity politics? Sure, he's from a state with just a million people, but it's not that only large state governors have ended up in the Oval Office. In early 1976, nobody knew who Jimmy Carter was for example.

Because people want someone progressive and they think montana is a rural hicks state so Bullock is John bell edwards

Well, it's not that Steve Bullock is a conservative Democrat as some people think. He's socially as liberal as you can get in Montana (pro-choice, unlike JBE) and implemented campaign finance reform, which is an important issue for progressives. He also supports labor unions and has moved to the left on gun control.

[President Johnson]

I don't think Bullock will run for Senate. I think he's going to waste all his political capital on a 15th-place finish in the Presidential primary.

I don´t think he is going to run for President- remember Sen. Tester letting it slip that he would be running for Senate? Plus, I think it would be a Tossup/Tilt R kind of race and he would have a very good chance; his approvals are much better than Daines´ at the very least, and he wouldn´t get Bredesen´d because Montana is actually somewhat purple.

I think he hasn't decided yet what to do. Just hope he runs for something because it would be wasted talent. He's only 54 years in 2020.

[President Johnson]

Time to run for president.

I don't know what filling deadlines are in Montana. If Steve Bullock is out by the end of the year of the Iowa, he might just keep his campaign appartus up and jump into the senate race. If he doesn't, Brian Schweizer should run instead and Mike Cooney for governor.