Less than fifty days until Election Day, Aaron Flint is bleeding support as costs continue to skyrocket in Montana. Now, new independent polling is showing Sam Forstag is the change that Montanans are looking for: Flint and Forstag are now neck-and-neck in the race for MT-01.
Momentum is growing for Forstag as voters increasingly turn away from Flint’s cost-hiking agenda that is raising prices on everything from groceries to gas. In what could “be Montana’s closest U.S. House race since 1992,” Forstag is leading Flint by 10% for favorability as he continues to win support from both sides of the aisle.
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Aaron Flint has shown Montanans exactly who he is: a carbon copy of what’s wrong with Washington. Unlike Flint, Sam Forstag will bring real change by lowering costs, protecting public lands, and improving health care for working Montanans.”
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Montana Free Press: Flint, Forstag in dead heat for House seat
- Aaron Flint and Sam Forstag appear to be in a dead heat for Montana’s Western District House race, according to a Montana Free Press-Rutgers Eagleton poll.
- In what’s expected to be Montana’s most competitive federal race, Flint, a Republican, drew a 42% polling share when 375 registered voters were asked who they would vote for if the election were held today. Forstag, a Democrat, drew a 41% polling share. Nick Sheedy, a Libertarian, drew 5%.
- The Western District comprises 16 Montana counties, including Missoula and Gallatin, which rank first and second for Democratic voters in the state, as well as Flathead County, which has the second-most Republican voters.
- Should the race finish as tightly as polling suggests, it would be Montana’s closest U.S. House race since 1992.
- Forstag drew the highest favorability mark at 41%, with 19% viewing the Democrat unfavorably.
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