In the end, it didn’t matter, Montana voters wanted a Republican. They chose Sheehy over Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana), the famously seven-fingered farmer who has represented Montana since 2007. Tester’s defeat signals the end of an era: Come January, there will be no Democratic Senators representing red states in the West.

Republican Tim Sheehy defeated three-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. The victory by the former U.S. Navy SEAL bolsters the GOP’s new Senate majority. Sheehy closely aligned his campaign with Donald Trump and leading conservatives while painting Tester as a corrupt Washington insider.

Sheehy, whose story about obtaining a bullet wound in Afghanistan has been subject to questions, won Montana’s Senate seat

Republican Tim Sheehy has won Montana’s Senate race, unseating incumbent Sen. Jon Tester and adding to the GOP majority in the U.S. Senate. Tester — a moderate and the chamber’s only working farmer — was considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats on the ballot nationwide.