Montana Senate: Tester in Trouble, State Still Too Close to Call

The Senate race in Montana was still too close to call Wednesday morning, according to NBC Montana, and was within 2,100 votes with 99 percent reporting.

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., was trying to hold off Republican challenger Matt Rosendale, and both candidates have alternated in the lead as early results had trickled in, per the report.

This is the most expensive race in Montana's history, as more than $60 million has been spent, NBC Montana reported.

Election results are coming in Wednesday for major population centers including Missoula, Gallatin, Cascade, and Yellowstone counties.

Campaign representatives say Sen. Tester is in Great Falls awaiting the results and Republican State Auditor Matt Rosendale is in Helena.

Rosendale put up a strong challenge with a boost from President Donald Trump. The president vowed last spring that Tester would pay at the polls for releasing allegations that toppled Trump's first nominee for Veterans Affairs secretary.

Republican and Democratic groups spent tens of millions of dollars to influence the outcome of the election in a state Trump won by 20 percentage points in 2016.

Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.

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