Welcome! We are about 36 days from election day! Here are the topics for today’s column:

• Truth Tracker
• Trump Lies
• Daines & Trump
• Sheehy/Tester Debate
• Baseball & Football

TRUTH TRACKER:

NonStop Local ABC/Fox in Montana is fact-checking several campaign ads. They are doing a pretty good job with this monumental task. 

They recently examined a political advertisement targeting Montana Senator Jon Tester. Sponsored by the conservative political action committee Senate Leadership Fund, the ad makes several claims about Tester’s voting record.

Here are the highlights from NonStop Local:

• The ad alleges that Tester voted to allow “biological men to compete in girls’ sports.” This claim is false.

• The ad also states that Tester supported a farm program as part of the American Rescue Plan that “excluded white Montana farmers, just because they are white.” This statement is mostly false.

• Another claim made in the ad is that Tester “voted to give amnesty to millions of illegals” and that this would affect Medicare and Social Security. They rated that statement as false.

In closing, NonStop Local reports that overall, they rate this advertisement as mostly false. Jon Tester did not vote to allow men to compete in women’s sports, did not vote to discriminate against white farmers, and supported a bipartisan immigration bill to provide legal paths for undocumented individuals alongside several Republican allies.

During this election, several lies are being spewed in commercials and social media posts. There appear to be several “trolls” on Montana social media attacking and spreading false information about Tester and other Democrats.

It’s important that the truth gets out, so please read the article and share it.    

You can read the whole report HERE.

TRUMP LIES:

Former President Donald Trump posted this photo on social media and several of his gullible followers in Montana reposted it. 

CNN is reporting that Trump is wildly distorting new statistics on immigration and crime to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.

CNN says that Trump falsely claimed Friday and Saturday that the statistics are specifically about criminal offenders who entered the US during the Biden-Harris administration; in reality, the figures are about offenders who entered the US over multiple decades, including during the Trump administration. And Trump falsely claimed that the statistics are specifically about people who are now living freely in the US; the figures actually include people who are currently in jails and prisons serving criminal sentences.

You can read the full report from CNN HERE. 

DAINES & TRUMP:

Instead of cheering on the Montana State Bobcats or the Montana Grizzlies or some Frontier Conference team from Montana, U.S. Senator Steve Daines and his wife attended the Georgia and Alabama football game with former President Donald Trump. (Source)

Daines proudly posted a photo of the three of them. Daines was wearing an Alabama hat. I posted the following comment:

“Anyone with common sense, would not let Trump be that close to his wife, girlfriend, female relatives, etc.” 

Daines will be on the clock (meaning he is up for reelection next) after this election in November. I hope he decides not to run, but he enjoys the spotlight while doing very little for Montana, so I imagine he will be all in.

SHEEHY/TESTER DEBATE:

Reminder –  Montana PBS will host a debate with Montana U.S. Senate candidates Jon Tester and Tim Sheehy at 7 p.m. TONIGHT Monday, Sept. 30. 

The debate will be simulcast live on Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, online at montanapbs.org/live, and on the Montana PBS Facebook page.

You should never schedule a debate during Monday Night Football. 

For more information, click HERE. 

BASEBALL & FOOTBALL:

The New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves will play a doubleheader today (Monday) to decide the final two wildcard teams. The first game starts at 11:10 Mountain time. It is on ESPN2. 

Both clubs would gain a spot with a split. But the Arizona D-backs would get in if either team is swept.

More information can be found HERE. 

There will be two Monday Night Football games tonight. Tennessee and Miami play at 5:30 p.m. (Mountain time) on ESPN. At 6:15 p.m., Seattle will take on Detroit on ABC. 

Is this a great country or what? 

## HAVE A GREAT WEEK ##