Matt Rosendale launches 2024 campaign for US Senate
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., nominates Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., for the ninth vote in the House chamber as the House meets for the third day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Eastern Montana’s Republican Congressman Matt Rosendale ended months of teasing a possible bid for U.S. Senate on Friday by officially declaring his candidacy for the race, kicking off what is sure to be a heated Republican primary.
Rosendale signed his candidate filing forms at the Secretary of State’s Office in Helena on Friday morning surrounded by a few supporters, and simultaneously launched a fundraising website and released an online advertisement attacking Tim Sheehy, who will be his main opponent in the primary, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and what Rosendale calls the “establishment” politicians in Washington.
“This Republican primary race is the people of Montana versus Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden, and the Washington insiders. Mitch McConnell knows that I won’t support him for Republican leader, so he’s trying to keep me out of the Senate. McConnell knows I won’t follow his orders, and he’s fixing to find out that the people of Montana won’t follow his orders either by letting him pick our next senator,” Rosendale said in the advertisement.
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