Steve Daines’s Switcheroo Starts New Fight in Montana Senate Race
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- Kurt Alme, Montana's top federal prosecutor and a Republican, filed to run for Senate at 4:52 p.m.
- Five minutes later, Senator Steve Daines, also a Republican and an ally of Alme, withdrew his name from the Senate race.
- The official deadline for ballot changes passed at 5 p.m., finalizing the candidate lineup.
- At 5:02 p.m., Daines publicly announced his decision not to seek re-election in a video set against Montana’s mountainous landscape.
