Montana might not be a battleground state for November’s presidential election — Donald Trump carried it by 16.37 percentage points in 2020 and by nearly 21 in 2016 — but it sure could decide which party gains control of the Senate.

Trump was in Big Sky Country on Friday night to campaign for former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, who is trying to oust three-term Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat anomaly in a deep-red state. Trump campaigned to oust Tester in 2018, but Tester narrowly defeated Matt Rosendale by 17,913 votes.

“We are going to defeat radical-left Democrat John Tester,” Trump said in front of a capacity crowd at the Brick Breen Fieldhouse in Bozeman on the campus of Montana State University. “He’s terrible. And send Tim Sheehy to the United States Senate.”

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