Rosendale enters the Senate race

Matt Rosendale officially announced his candidacy for U. S. Senate on Feb. 9.

The current Republican representative for Montana’s second congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives will be up against Republican Tim Sheehy — former Navy SEAL and founder of Bridger Aerospace, a firefighting company based in Belgrade — in the primaries. The winner of that race will be on the general election ballot against longtime Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester.

Montana’s Senate President Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, and Speaker of the House Matt Regier, R-Kalispell, have backed Rosendale,...