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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Matt Rosendale- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-09-25
Montana GOP Congressman Matt Rosendale, who's enough of a white nationalist to have voted against a Juneteenth holiday.
t was on this date in 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Matt Rosendale, who was a 2018 candidate for U.S Senate in Montana who unsuccessfully tried to swipe the seat of Democratic Senator Jon Tester, and who in 2020 got elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Montana’s At-Large seat. Rosendale touts his background as a real estate investor from Maryland who pretends he’s a rancher out on the range from almost all the way across the country, but all public records show, though, that Rosendale is a “rancher” by way of just renting real estate out to others who actually do the ranching on that land. This would be like if a landlord claimed to be a professional cosplayer because one of their tenants went to a comic convention dressed as Sailor Moon.
Anyway, that reputation as a carpetbagger is already rather established in Montana, because Rosendale was bludgeoned with that label when he was defeated in the 2014 Congressional Primary for Montana’s At-Large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives against FRED alumni Ryan Zinke. After winning one term in the Tea Party Wave in Montana back in 2010 to get into the State House, Rosendale won a single term in the Montana State Senate in 2012, before his losing streak started. The only election he’s won in Montana was for State Auditor in 2016, on the benefit of getting to run unopposed.
And, because Rosendale is willing to campaign on immigration by calling for Donald Trump’s stupid idea for a border wall along the U.S./Mexico border and Sen. Jon Tester s***talked the thin-skinned orange menace, Emperor Dementia von F***face himself enough that Trump went to campaign in Montana on Rosendale’s behalf, which amounted to him rambling incoherently for almost an hour while barely mentioning the candidate. That would be the same rally where Trump lost the crowd enough that a guy in a plaid shirt upstaged him, and that other attendees were escorted out and replaced with audience plants because they didn’t look enthusiastic enough.
Our main issues with Rosendale, however, aren’t his carpetbagging, so much as they are with his rampant racism. That’s almost a given, we know, with labeling himself a Trump conservative and wanting a border wall, but because he’s spoken highly of white supremacists in Montana like Taylor Rose and Chuck Baldwin. Or how after Florida Congressman Ron DeSantis was outed as the moderator of a Facebook group of conservatives that exists almost solely to share racist memes and insane conspiracy theories like Pizzagate or that the left orchestrated Charlottesville, Rosendale was revealed to have been an active member of it for some time (when caught, he dropped himself from the group).
Matt Rosendale couldn’t seem to go more than a week without a major campaign gaffe, as now he’s being investigated by the Federal Election Commission because his campaign was illegally coordinating their ad campaigns with the NRA because he himself blurted out that he was doing it in a televised interview.
While Rosendale was defeated in his 2018 Senate race with John Tester, earning only 47% of the vote, in 2020, he defeated Kathleen Williams to win the At-Large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Montana, replacing Greg Gianforte. His voting record seems to indicate the radically conservative ideals we’d fear he’d have:
As we noted that Matt Rosendale has spoken highly of white supremacists above, it should come as little surprise that in 2021, he was in an absolute bigoted panic over the news that refugees from Afghanistan are going to be resettled in Montana, and began almost immediately reacting with inflammatory rhetoric. He was publicly rebuked by the Mayor of Helena, Wilmot Collins for it, who is himself, an immigrant refugee from Liberia who came to the United States in the 1990s.
Oh, and we should note that Matt Rosendale seems to be in the tank for Vladimir Putin and Russia in their war with Ukraine, being one of only three Republicans who voted against a resolution to criticize Russia’s further invasion in 2022, and when nations like Sweden and Finland submitted membership to join NATO to make sure they had the rest of Europe ready to defend them if Putin got an annexation itch again, he was one of 18 Republicans to vote against that.
Montana is, of course, an extremely right-leaning state, so it would be an upset if in 2022 if someone could wrest Montana’s At-Large seat away from Matt Rosendale. HINT: Montana! Democratic nominee Penny Ronning! We can only hope for that unlikely outcome, to rid Congress of another white nationalist schmuck.
One Year Ago, September 25th, 2021: Matt Rosendale (MT)… 2021 Update
Two Years Ago, September 25th, 2020: Matt Rosendale (MT)… 2020 Update
Three Years Ago, September 25th, 2019: Matt Rosendale (MT)… 2019 Update
Four Years Ago, September 25th, 2018: Matt Rosendale (MT)… Original Profile
Five Years Ago, September 25th, 2017: Sam Brownback (KS)… 2017 Update
Six Years Ago, September 25th, 2016: Sam Brownback (KS)… 2016 Update
Seven Years Ago, September 25th, 2015: Sam Brownback (KS)… 2015 Update
Eight Years Ago, September 25th, 2014: Sam Brownback (KS)…Original Profile
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