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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

All of a sudden, Montana — and Senate control — is slipping away from Republicans

One day out from Election Day 2024 and Republican control of the Senate is suddenly looking a lot less certain.

It had been seen as a near-inevitability by some for months. With the loss of West Virginia’s seat thanks to the retirement of Joe Manchin, the defeat of Jon Tester — the incumbent senator from Montana, who has been trailing his opponentTim Sheehy through the summer and fall —  was set to throw the majority into GOP hands, unless Democrats unseated a Republican incumbent elsewhere.

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