Steve Daines in 2020 MT Senatorial race

On Health Care: Repeal Obamacare; protect those with pre-existing conditions

Daines has said repeatedly that even if the court upholds the repeal of the ACA, also known as Obamacare, he'd ensure protections--including against exorbitant fees--for people with preexisting conditions. When Bullock pointed out that repeal of the ACA would kill Montana's Medicaid expansion that provided health insurance to 90,000 Montanans, Daines termed the attack "Right out of Chuck Schumer's playbook." Source: The Missoulian on 2020 Montana Senate debate Sep 28, 2020

On Health Care: COVID: no masking mandate, personal responsibility

The two drew clear lines on the contentious subject of masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Bullock instituted a mask mandate for all counties with more than four cases. Daines said masking should be a matter of personal responsibility, "not a federal or state mandate." Source: The Missoulian on 2020 Montana Senate debate Sep 28, 2020

On Principles & Values: We're the greatest country in the world

Daines was one of a handful of Republicans who supported the president's declaration that four congresswomen should "go back" to "the crime infested places from which they came." Daines posted on Facebook and Twitter that "Montanans are sick and tired of listening to anti-American, anti-Semite, radical Democrats trash our country and our ideals. We're the greatest country in the world. I stand with @RealDonaldTrump." Source: The Nation magazine on 2020 Montana Senate race Jul 6, 2020

On Civil Rights: No safe haven for neo-Nazi white nationalists

Top Montana lawmakers warned neo-Nazis they would find "no safe haven" for a rally that could include guns planned for next month in a mountain town where white nationalists have threatened Jewish residents.

The lawmakers include both Democrats and U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke, recently picked by Republican President-elect Donald Trump to be interior secretary. "We say to those few who seek to publicize anti-Semitic views that they shall find no safe haven here," Zinke wrote in an open letter also signed by Gov. Steve Bullock (D); U.S. Sens. Steve Daines (R), and Jon Tester (D); and Attorney General Tim Fox (R).

Neo-Nazis plan to march in January in the mountain ski town of Whitefish in Montana's remote and rugged northwestern reaches. The march is to support the mother of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer. Sherry Spencer is facing pressure from community members to sell a building she owns in Whitefish because of its ties to her son and to disavow her son's beliefs.

Source: Religion News Service on 2020 Montana Senate race Dec 28, 2016

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