Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alani Bankhead has now decided to stay in the race despite the urging of many lifelong Democrats that she drop out. It was Bankhead’s right to decide.
Montana U.S. Senate candidate Alani Bankhead says her family, including her underage daughter, has been included in a “target list for harassment” in an attempt to get the Democrat to drop out of the race. The mounting pressure comes as the deadline rapidly approaches to have candidates' names removed from the general election ballot should they bow out.
I got involved in politics because I believed government could make life better for ordinary people. Growing up in rural southeastern Montana, I watched my father work as a truck driver and my mother wait tables while raising our family. They taught me that hard work matters, that opportunity isn't guaranteed, and that public service is about fighting for people who don't always have a voice.
MISSOULA, Mont. — In a letter addressed to Montana Democrats, prominent former state Democratic party leader Carol Williams called on the party's own nominee for U.S. Senate to drop out of the race.
Some Montana Democrats have spent the last few weeks blaming Jon Tester and the old guard for splitting the party between Seth Bodnar and Alani Bankhead.
