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Former Montana budget director and revenue director.

His campaign says he was born in Great Falls, graduated from high school in Miles City, and has worked as a prosecutor, nonprofit leader, revenue director, and budget director. He lives in Billings and is running for the Senate.

• He says that as revenue director he led the largest income-tax rate cut in state history and put money back with taxpayers.
• He says that as budget director he helped cut spending and balance the budget.
• He says he is running to make life more affordable, keep communities safe, and protect what he calls the Montana way of life.

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Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and former federal agent.

Her campaign says she served 21 years in the Air Force and worked as a federal supervisory special agent on terror networks, spies, and child predators. She says she directed more than 180 agents across eight countries and is the Democratic nominee for Senate.

• She says she takes no corporate PAC money.
• She says she backs I-194, which she calls The Montana Plan, to end dark money in Montana.
• She says her public answers on issues are posted so voters can compare them with the other candidates.

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Former president of the University of Montana.

His campaign says he was raised by two public-school teachers, joined the military at 18, graduated from West Point, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and served in Iraq as an infantry officer and as a Green Beret. He says he then led the University of Montana for eight years.

• He says he would try to end what he calls a costly and unauthorized war in Iran and stop tariffs he says are driving up prices.
• He says he would work to lower health care, housing, and energy costs.
• He says he would answer to Montanans rather than party leaders or corporate donors, and that he wants to end dark money and ban congressional insider trading.

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Pharmacist, pharmacy owner, and farmer.

His campaign says he was born and raised on Montana's Hi-Line, worked his family's farm, earned a Doctor of Pharmacy, and founded an independent pharmacy. He is running for the Senate as a Libertarian.

• He says he still owns his grandfather's farm and wants policy that deals with the stress on farmers and ranchers.
• He says he is a gun owner and hunter and wants Americans to keep unrestricted access to firearms.
• He says his work as a pharmacist showed him corruption and other problems in health care.

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Republican candidate for Montana's 1st District.

His campaign says he is a fifth-generation Montanan, a father, and a retired Army National Guard and Reserve lieutenant colonel who earned two Bronze Stars after combat service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He hosts a statewide radio show and says he grew up in Glasgow and the Flathead.

• He says borders should be secured and people in the country illegally deported, starting with those convicted of violent crimes and drug trafficking, and he opposes sanctuary policies.
• To make Montana more affordable he wants to ban Wall Street from buying single-family homes, make permanent the tax breaks on tips, overtime, and Social Security, and expand American energy production.
• He wants more timber harvests, mining, trade training, and public access to public lands, and he supports a ban on congressional stock trading and a balanced-budget amendment.

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Democratic candidate for Montana's 1st District.

His campaign says he is a Forest Service smokejumper and a vice president of his union local, raised by a nurse and a public-school teacher. He worked his way through the University of Montana and says he has organized for public education, libraries, health care, and constitutional freedoms.

• On housing he calls for federal investments matched to the shortage, zoning reform, a ban on hedge funds buying homes, and restoration of the first-time homebuyer credit.
• On health care he says every Montanan should have the choice of Medicare that covers dental, vision, and hearing, and that Medicare should negotiate all drug prices.
• He wants Citizens United overturned, lower contribution limits, a ban on members of Congress trading stocks, and a stop to former members becoming lobbyists.

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U.S. representative for Montana's 2nd District

The campaign says Troy Downing, a Republican combat veteran and businessman, represents Montana's 2nd District and sits on the House Financial Services Committee. Before Congress he was state auditor, securities and insurance commissioner, and a land-board commissioner.

• He says he advocates lower taxes, less regulation, and policies for economic growth, energy independence, and national security.
• As insurance commissioner, the campaign says he held companies accountable and worked to keep rates down for families.
• On the land board, he says he voted for more public-land access and for timber, oil and gas, and agriculture projects.

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Democratic candidate for Montana's 2nd District.

His campaign says he has lived in Montana for nearly 25 years and has practiced general civil litigation in state and federal courts across the state for nearly 15 years. He says he is an independent-minded Montanan and not a politician.

• He says prices are higher, jobs are fewer, programs that help people are being destroyed, and government debt is ballooning, and he describes an attack on the Constitution from what he calls an overgrown executive.
• He names data centers in Montana, the war in Iran, health care, affordability, and agriculture as the top issues.
• He says he would apply common-sense judgment with the people of Montana first and use evidence-based solutions.

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