OAN Staff Taylor Tinsley
9:34 AM – Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Greg Gianforte has won Montana’s Gubernatorial race.
Incumbent GOP Governor Greg Gianforte went head-to-head against Democrat challenger Ryan Busse in Montana’s race for governor.
Gianforte assumed office in 2021. He won a special election to represent the state’s at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2021.
Born in San Diego, California, Gianforte began his career as an engineer and business owner. He and his wife, Susan, founded RightNow Technologies.
Gianforte also ran for governor in 2016, but was defeated by incumbent Steve Bullock (D-Mont.) in the general election. According to his campaign website, Gianforte has spent his career creating jobs and under his leadership, more Montanans are working than ever before.
“Governor Gianforte has delivered historic tax cuts, made Montana debt-free, provided record funding for education, raised teacher pay, boosted funding for law enforcement, and increased public access to more than 100,000 acres of public lands,” his website says.
Busse said he’s running as an advocate for all Montanans and that Gianforte is a wealthy extremist who bought his seat with his own money.
“Gianforte tossed responsibility aside and now he’s raising our taxes, making Montana unaffordable, defunding our public schools, locking up our public lands, hijacking our freedoms and rigging the system for the rich,” Busse’s website said.
Busse’s values centered around the climate and environment, democracy, pro-choice, protecting the Second Amendment and more.
At the time of this reporting, Gianforte won with 59.6% of the vote compared to Busse’s 37.9%
90% of the expected votes have been counted.
All results are based on information provided by Reuters.
