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Bullock Suffers Big Defeat As I-185 Fails in Montana
Governor Steve Bullock (D-MT) is hoping to run as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, even though he apparently didn't have enough pull back in his own state in 2018.
Bullock was basically the face of I-185, a ballot measure that would increase tobacco taxes and also make permanent the Obamacare Medicaid expansion in Montana- and that initiative failed big.
Here's the numbers as of Wednesday morning:
Courtesy Montana Secretary of State website screenshot
Here's the campaign commercial Bullock cut for the backers of I-185:
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