His opponent, Democrat Jon Tester, is pulling out his old campaign trick of running as a conservative. He votes as a liberal in the senate.
This year, Tester is portraying himself as an outsider against all those people who have been in Washington, D.C. too long.
Tester has been there 17 years.
There is a LOT of discussion of Tester in the interview. Tester is a real snake.