We’re only 7 days away from our first chance to send a message to Trump and Republicans and the wide open skies of Montana continue to shine brighter by the day. I just wrote a previous diary about how close this race is and now we’ve got 3 more indications since then that it’s headed in the very wrong direction for the GOP. First and foremost we have had 2 separate nonpartisan prognosticators upgrade the race for Democrats.
Both have moved the race to the Lean R category basically showing a mid single digit race. This is in a state Trump won by 20 points! That's not the only indication however of just how bad things have gotten for Republicans. This article in Politico just came out.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/montana-special-election-238523
With the White House enveloped in crisis, a Republican-friendly group is rushing a last-minute $200,000 ad buy onto the Montana airwaves ahead of next week’s special congressional election.
Republicans, concerned about the race and looking to gin up turnout, have dispatched high-profile surrogates. Donald Trump Jr. and Vice President Mike Pence have stumped for Gianforte in recent weeks.
Not only are they pouring last minute cash in (Remember KS-04 anyone?) from a group that never was active in the race before, but they're also trying to gin up enthusiasm sending extremely high profile surrogates to campaign (again Remember KS-04?). This all sounds way too familiar to us and points to the growing panic among the GOP, but I've saved the best for last. McClatchy came out with an article today that could ordinarily be taken as expectations settings, but given everything else we’ve seen is actually a likely portrayal of where the race is 1 week out.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article151135317.html
WASHINGTON
Democrats are ready to conduct fresh polling in South Carolina. In Montana, Republicans worry their nominee is losing ground just a week out. And in Georgia, operatives from both parties now consider the Democratic candidate a favorite to pull off what pundits would have considered in January a monumental upset.
But Republicans watching the race say they fear that Gianforte, hindered by attacks that labeled him as a rich carpetbagger, is losing ground in the race’s final weeks. One source familiar with polling of the race, in fact, says his lead is as small as five points.
“Quist has done a good job feeding an image as a Montana outsider, contrasted with the Jersey billionaire who wants to sell off public lands,” said one national Republican strategist, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about party strategy.
Rob Quist screams "I'm from Montana” and that authenticity is helping him win over crucial Trump voters to make this race competitive. The contrast couldn’t be clearer and the race is giving Republicans nightmares for a seat that in all honesty shouldn't even be talked about, but with the AHCA, the Trump/Russia investigation and Trump’s bull in a China Shop way of governing here we are.
A 5 point race can easily be overcome in the last week if we all put our energy and focus dedicated solely to electing Rob Quist in Montana. I'm getting goosebumps thinking about the absolute chaos and panic it will cause the Republicans in congress.
Let’s talk to our friends and family in Montana about Rob Quist’s grassroots campaign.
Let’s donate $5 to help Rob Quist fight back against the millions of dollars in dark money trying to tear his grassroots by the people for the people campaign down.
Let’s volunteer to canvass, make phone calls and GOTV in order to meet and persuade Montanans that Rob Quist will represent them and the millionaire from Jersey will represent corporations.
Let’s use our social media to spread the word to other like-minded individuals who want to take the country back and put America above party about this extremely close and winnable race.
But most importantly let’s put the pedal to the metal and do every single thing we can in the next 7 days to elect Rob Quist as the next congressmam to represent Montana!
Can you chip in $5 to help elect Rob Quist?
Can you volunteer to make 5 phone calls?
Spread the word on twitter using the hashtags #MTAL #Vote4Quist #EnlistForQuist
We can do this if we all work together, let's push him over the top!