The proud Trump supporter is the sixth Republican senator to not seek reelection.
The incumbent senator’s status on the Montana Secretary of State’s website was updated to “withdrawn” as of the state’s 5 p.m. candidate filing deadline on Wednesday. Daines, who was first elected to the Senate in 2014, is the sixth Republican senator to not seek reelection in the upcoming midterm elections this November.
Sen. Thom Tillis has been a much more vocal critic of Donald Trump as he enters his final year in office.He joins a list of GOP lawmakers that includes former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, Tommy Tuberville, Joni Ernst, and Cynthia Lummis. President Donald Trump was very quick to congratulate the tenured lawmaker on his public service. In a post, the president called Daines “one of our truly Great United States Senators” before endorsing the state’s federal prosecutor, Kurt Alme, whom Trump appointed during both of his terms, as his replacement. The president pivoted his congratulatory post about the retiring senator to focus on his new endorsee.“He did a job like few others are capable of doing but, sadly for our Country, Steve’s Term is up,” Trump wrote on Wednesday night. “Kurt is exceptional, and I will be giving him, based on Steve’s strongest recommendation, my Complete and Total Endorsement.”reported that Alme filed to run for Daines’s Senate seat shortly after the senator’s withdrawal and just before the 5 p.m. deadline. Alme was appointed by Trump as the U.S. Attorney to the District of Montana in both his first and second presidential terms.Daines shared a video announcement on his social media on Wednesday evening, saying it was “the greatest honor of my professional career” to represent the people of Montana in Congress over the last 13 years.shared on X. “I’m energized, I’m encouraged, and I’m ready for whatever comes next.” “I’m also very thankful to have served alongside President Trump and my colleagues in the Senate,” he added.Sen. Steve Daines/X Other than Alme, former University of Montana president Seth Bodnar filed to run for the open Senate seat as an independent. “Montanans are an independent people, and we deserve an independent voice in Washington fighting to lower costs and protect our values,” Bodnar, who served in the U.S. Army,
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