Dems keep focus on public lands despite GOP legislative win

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Democrats seeking to pick up senate seats in Montana and Colorado are falling back on a familiar political playbook in the U.S. West: Paint their opponents as a threat to the undeveloped public lands for which the two Rocky Mountain states are known. The first-term Republican incumbents in the contests appeared to have inoculated themselves against such allegations earlier this year. Montana’s Steve Daines and Colorado’s Cory Gardner worked with President