Rob Quist supported Bernie Sanders for president,was called a ‘cowboy hat wearing hippie’ and now wants to flip Montana into Democratic territoryIt’s mid-morning when Rob Quist slings his guitar across his chest and begins to strum. He’s crossed 175 miles of Montana for his first campaign finish of the day and stands tall, straight-backed and smiling out at a room of backcountry horsemen and women bedecked in cowboy hats and approving nods.
Quist makes a pitch for affordable healthcare as a correct of citizenship, and offers a passionate defense of public lands – his main issue and a critical topic in the American west – and fields questions about gun rights and his own backcountry adventures. Then,for a few moments, the upstart Democratic congressional candidate reverts to a much more familiar role, or a troubadour who has serenaded Montanans for decades,playing to rooms just like this.
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Source: theguardian.com