Expensive political race in montana history. The general election coming up november third. If youre keeping track at home, thats 24 days away. The ballots were mailed out friday this week so voters, be looking for your ballots to arrive soon in a mailbox near you. The ballots need to be returned to your local Election Office by 8 00 p. M. On election day. At stake in this race is one of montanas to u. S. Senate seat. Salary of u. S. Senator currently at 174 thousand dollars a year. Now its time to meet the candidate. Steve bullock was one in mazzola, earned his law degree from Columbia University in new york city. Earlier in his career, he worked in private practice and an assistant attorney general for the state of montana. He won election as montanas attorney general in 2000 and then as governor in 2012 and 2016. Both, a democrat says as governor, hes worked with both democrats and republicans to expand affordable healthcare, strengthen and invester in schools. He and his wife, lisa
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Announcer from mtn news, this is the race for u. S. Senate. Welcome to the u. S. Senate bate here on the Montana Senate network. One of the most closely watched in the entire country and looks to become the most expensive in montana history. The election is november 3. If youre keeping track at days hat is just 20 away. Ballots need to be returned to your local Election Office by 8 00 p. M. On election day. At stake in this race is one of montanas two u. S. Senate seats. The say as a wholery is 174,000 per year. Now it is time to meet the candidates. Bollock or steve earned his law degree from Colombia University in new york city. Earlier in his career, he workeded in private practice and as an assistant attorney general for the state of montana. He won election in 2008 as attorney general and as governor in 2012 and 2016. A democrat, says as governor he has worked with both democrats and republicans to expand affordable healthcare, strengthen the economy and invest in montana schools.
Optimistic. Mitch mcconnell is pressing for his own more targeted plan. Emily, if the white house and pelosi agree to a deal, six months ago you couldve seen trump with the pressure from oconnell, is that not the case anymore . Mcconnell, is that not the case anymore . We are talking about all the Senate Republicans who arent really game to pass another 2 trillion legislation. How much support to they have. Mcconnell says if there is an agreement, he will bring it to the floor but did not say whether he would support or talk about his members for supporting it. A lot of them are in tight races coming up and they need to be thinking about their own Electoral Prospects to try and make decisions they see think are going to sit well with their constituents. That we you suggesting are seeing members of the senate , republican members of the senate distancing themselves from trump . Is that now the electoral play that they have to pursue . I think for these republican senators, they have to
Treasury market. European stocks are down by 1 . U. S. Stocks are up i. 2 . I also want to bear in mind what is happening with the chinese currency. This is important. 6. 6 four, below key levels. The dollar continues to weekend. The dollar is important, the euro is important, but the chinese currency is potentially very important. Jump inaly reporting a new daily virus cases to over 15,000. The other part of the story, we are talking about trade talks, the u. K. And the eu are ready to sit down immediately with the goal of finding a deal by midnovember after positive contacts between the two sides. Our bloomberg is european politics reporter. Ian, a great way to talk about itting the deal, getting done, was that Boris Johnson was getting his way and getting it done. Ian in the past five minutes, the chief negotiators have gotten off the phone after about an hour long discussion. We have not heard officially what they have agreed to do, but as you were saying, we have reported in the l