2020 Reflections: Montana's GOP sweep signals changes ahead
Montana Republican Party Chairman Don "K" Kaltschmidt speaks at a campaign event at the Red Lion Hotel conference center in Kalispell in this Oct. 19, 2020, file photo. (Matt Baldwin/Daily Inter Lake)
Republican U.S. Rep. and Montana gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte Greg Gianforte celebrates after the Montana gubernatorial race was called by the Associated Press in Bozeman, Mon., Tuesday, Nov 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Tommy Martino)
Montana turned deep red in 2020, as Republican candidates swept every statewide office on the November ballot and won the governor's office for the first time in 16 years.
Celebration among Montana Republicans has been tempered only by the realization that President Donald Trump lost his bid to remain in the White House – a fact that Democrats hope will lower the temperature of the state's politics and facilitate some bipartisan cooperation while they are outnumbered in both chambers of the Legislature...
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