Of his entire life with polls opening in just a few hours, the fallout for gianforte has been swift, three of state s biggest newspapers have rescinded their endorsements, and democrats have already ruled out facebook ads attacking gianforte for the alleged body slam. the democratic candidate rob quist so far he s declined to comment about all of this. the other thing worth noting here, the sheriff is confirmed he gave gianforte s campaign $250, but he says it will have no bearing on his investigation. early vote has been under way for weeks and hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots have already been returned. so you got more than a quarter of a million ballots already in, you got this craziness going on, will it bring more people to the polls? some suggest that s two-thirds of the votes already cast, but will this end even if gianforte wins? questions remain. today the president s first foreign trip, though, takes him to brussels where events are just now getting under way. th
Gianforte hasn t said anything publicly since the statement, but his campaign says jacobs entered the office without permission, aggressively shoved someone in their face and asked badgering classes. the statement says gianforte asked jacobs to lower the recorder and jacobs declined and blamed jacobs for pushing them both to the ground. but note the recording has no indication that jacobs was asked to lower the recorder. you can judge for yourself whether the health care questions were badgering. for his part, ben jacobs calls it the strangest moment in his life. with polls opening in just a few hours, the fallout for gianforte has been swift. three of the state s biggest newspapers have rescinded their endorsements, and democrats have already rolled out facebook ads attacking gianforte for the alleged body slam. the democratic candidate, rob quist, so far declining to comment on all this. one other thing worth noting here, the sheriff, brian goodkin, has confirmed he gave gianfort
And it blames jacobs for pushing them both to the ground. but note this, the recording has no indication that jacobs was asked to lower the recorder and for his part, ben jacobs calls it the strangest moment in his entire life. polls are opening in hours now. the fallout for gianforte has been swift. already three of the state s biggest newspapers have rescinded their endorsements and democrats are already rolled out facebook ads atacking gianforte for the alleged body slam. the democratic candidate rob quist so far declining to comment. one thing worth noting, the sheriff, brian goodkin, confirmed he gave gianforte s campaign money. early voting has been under way for week and 259,000 votes have already been returned. there are only 700,000 total registered voters in montana. could be somewhere between 50 and 70% have already voted. a lot of concern that turnout