In Senate race, underfunded Democrats try to fend off a challenge from the middle

“I am just an everyday Montanan like everybody else you know,” Democrat Michael Black Wolf says. “My truck is parked right across the street. My check engine light is on.” The same might be said about the dashboard lights of Montana’s Democratic Party headed into only the third U.S. Senate election in half a century without an incumbent. Sparse donations suggest a weak appetite for another big-money battle like the one Jon Tester lost to Republican Tim Sheehy in 2024. That enthusiasm gap has lef...