Morning Digest: After dropping 6-day Senate bid, Rosendale drops 9-day House bid

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● MT-02: Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale announced Friday that he was ending his nine-day-old reelection campaign because of what he described as "a death threat against me and false and defamatory rumors against me and my family." The far-right congressman made his declaration less than a month after he quit Montana's U.S. Senate race, a campaign that itself lasted less than a week.

Rosendale's latest, and probably final, about-face came just ahead of Monday's candidate filing deadline. Several other Republicans had launched bids to replace him in the 2nd Congressional District back when they expected him to run for Senate, and no major contenders appear to have dropped out during the brief time he was seeking reelection.