Analysis: Montana voters getting Trump calls, though robocalling illegal
Rather than risk an embarrassing loss Thursday, Washington Republicans have gone all in on Montana’s special congressional election.
Numerous members of Congress have sent fundraising emails for Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte. Donald Trump Jr. and Vice President Mike Pence went out west this month for rallies. And in the final few hours of the race, Pence and President Donald Trump each recorded phone calls for the Republican National Committee expressing support for Gianforte.
Except, there’s one hang-up on that last outreach effort: robocalls are technically illegal in Montana, punishable by a fine of up to $2,500. How Republicans got around that ban is technically legal, even though it arguably undermines the intent of the ban in the first place. But politicians are pros at finding ways to call voters en masse: Finding ways to circumvent bans on robocalls is as old as land lines.
