{"id":1029686,"date":"2021-11-18T22:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T03:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1029686"},"modified":"2021-11-18T22:43:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T03:43:44","slug":"montana-democrat-suspends-campaign-for-congressional-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/montana-democrat-suspends-campaign-for-congressional-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Democrat Suspends Campaign for Congressional Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmontana-democrat-suspends-campaign-for-congressional-seat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1029686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/montana-state-capitol-building-file-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Montana Democrat Caucus Chair, state Rep. Laurie Bishop&nbsp;(D-Livingston), announced Wednesday she is suspending her campaign for the state\u2019s new&nbsp;congressional seat due to redistricting&nbsp;to run for reelection in her seat in the state House.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtpr.org\/montana-news\/2021-11-12\/after-an-amendment-montana-adopts-final-congressional-map\">announcement<\/a> comes roughly one week after the states\u2019 redistricting commission&nbsp;submitted their final&nbsp;congressional map outlining the state\u2019s two U.S. House districts to the&nbsp;secretary of state\u2019s office last Friday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The new district&nbsp;Bishop was planning to run for was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kirk_bado\/status\/1461096367091331073?s=20\">reportedly<\/a> not as friendly to a Democrat campaign as she had hoped when announcing her congressional bid, in addition to leaving her&nbsp;hometown of Livingston outside of the&nbsp;district.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop was the first Democrat that announced she was running for the seat back in July. However, at the time of her, announcement, Bishop <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/elections-montana-missoula-house-elections-livingston-2a43d698e0ec863e0485c8cb25ee6aa2\">said<\/a> she \u201cwould run in the district that includes liberal college town Missoula even if Livingston was not placed in the same district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic service has always been at the heart of my decision to run for Congress, and at this moment, the most important way for me to be of service is by continuing to lead our caucus at the state level,\u201d Bishop said in a statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am so thankful to have this opportunity and grateful for everyone who joined us. We ran a campaign focused on people, and I\u2019m so proud of the work we were able to accomplish in just a few months,\u201d she added.&nbsp;In the last quarter, Bishop had raised roughly $116,000 and saw contributions from over 1,300 people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.9786324786325\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the ol&#8217; inbox: State Rep. Laurie Bishop (D), who was running in the new western Montana district, is ending her campaign. She had raised $116k last quarter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uudOhCHBtP\">pic.twitter.com\/uudOhCHBtP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kirk A. Bado (@kirk_bado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kirk_bado\/status\/1461095561243856898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Courtney Parella, a spokeswoman from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), said,&nbsp;\u201cLaurie Bishop saw the writing on the wall: Democrats are doomed this cycle, and she made the smart choice to drop out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat field still includes&nbsp;former state lawmaker Tom Winter,&nbsp;public health professional Cora Neumann and lawyer Monica Tranel. The Republican field includes&nbsp;pastor Mary Todd,&nbsp;former state lawmaker Al Olszewski, and former President Donald Trump\u2019s&nbsp;U.S. Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/09\/donald-trump-endorses-ryan-zinke-montana-congressional-bid\/\">endorsed<\/a> Zinke in July, saying, \u201cAs Montana\u2019s Congressman for the new 2nd District, Ryan will fight against the Radical Left Democrats who continually block the America First policies we put in place.\u201d&nbsp;Zinke also leads the fundraising field by a wide margin.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/house-majority\/\">tracked<\/a> the Democrats\u2019 midterm chances and struggles to find new candidates willing to run for office and face published scrutiny. The&nbsp;Democrat party has continued to be unsuccessful in finding some recruits to face tough House seats. Meanwhile, many incumbents have announced their retirement or their candidacy for a different office.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are also facing tough redistricting battles in some states, unlike Montana, where the state created a new congressional seat after only having one in years prior.<\/p>\n<p>In September,&nbsp;<em>Politico<\/em>&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/15\/democrats-house-gop-maps-511868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">outlined<\/a>&nbsp;how the House Democrats spent their last two elections (2018 and 2020) bragging about unseating members in red districts that have become more competitive in recent years.&nbsp;\u201cNow, Republicans are about to make many of those targets disappear from the battlefield entirely,\u201d <em>Politico <\/em>stated<em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana Democrat Caucus Chair, state Rep. Laurie Bishop\u00a0(D-Livingston), announced Wednesday she is suspending her campaign for the state\u2019s new\u00a0congressional seat due to redistricting\u00a0to run for reelection in her seat in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}