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Montana Free Press published a deep analysis of Seth Bodnar’s push to become Montana’s first nonpartisan U.S. senator, and the takeaway is one the political establishment should sit with: political observers see Bodnar as more likely to succeed than most independent candidates for federal office this year.
Why? MTFP points to the extraordinary coalition forming behind him — support from prominent Democrats alongside a former Republican governor and past Republican National Committee chair. When leaders from both parties look at a West Point graduate, Iraq War veteran, and university president and agree he’s the right person for the job, that’s not a spoiler campaign. That’s what putting country over party actually looks like in practice.
The reporting is honest about the challenge ahead — Montana’s ballot math is complicated, and the parties don’t surrender power easily. But Bodnar’s goal, as he told MTFP, is to build a broad coalition and give a voice to the largest voting bloc in America: independents. That’s the IVA mission in a single sentence, playing out in the highest-profile race in the movement.
Read the full Montana Free Press analysis.
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