{"id":417,"date":"2020-11-01T17:11:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T17:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/?p=417"},"modified":"2020-11-02T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T20:32:26","slug":"montana-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/2020\/11\/01\/montana-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Quick Look at the Candidates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tRepublican Senator Steve Danies began his political career in 2012, when he was elected to the House of Representatives. In 2014, he won the Senate election, and is looking for his second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMontana Governor Steve Bullock has served two terms as governor since 2012. Prior to this, he served as Montana\u2019s attorney general.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Policy Comparison:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Key Issues &#8212; On Abortion: Danies is pro-life, while Bullock is pro-choice.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Healthcare: The two candidates disagree on this issue: Here\u2019s a comparison of quotes that speak for themselves<ul><li>On Bullock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernorBullock\/status\/1169040628635918336\">Twitter account<\/a> in September, 2019: \u201cObamacare was the greatest expansion of healthcare since Medicaid &amp; Medicare . . . We should be building on this progress . . .\u201d<\/li><li>On<a href=\"https:\/\/www.daines.senate.gov\/meet-steve\/legislative-issues\/health-care\"> Danies\u2019 website:<\/a> \u201cI support full repeal of Obamacare . . . It has already caused millions of Americans to lose the health care plans they liked and doctors that they trusted.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>On Climate Change: Unlike Bullock, Danies has historically been more skeptical about the human impact of global warming.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Polling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2014 &#8212; Steve Danies wins by 17.9%<\/li><li>2018 &#8212; Jon Tester wins with 50.3% of the vote<\/li><li>Polling for 2020: As of mid-October, Danies leds by 3%<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Quick Look at the Candidates: Republican Senator Steve Danies began his political career in 2012, when he was elected to the House of Representatives. In 2014, he won the Senate election, and is looking for his second term. Montana Governor Steve Bullock has served two terms as governor since 2012. Prior to this, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-http-students-pingry-org-vitalsigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}