James Richmond, 50, a veteran and IT consultant in Helena who supports Trump, said ending wars abroad and border security are the most important issues to him.

“I served in the military for more than twenty years and fought in two wars. I’m tired of seeing my brothers and sisters being beaten and dying. …So stopping the endless wars, which Trump is for. His first four years, no wars, no conflicts, the Abraham Accords will finally bring peace. And then the border,” Richmond said, adding that he grew up in Texas and doesn’t remember people experiencing “a flood like that across the border.”

John Ribic, 77, a retired cardiologist in Helena who voted for Trump in 2016 but abstained from voting in November’s presidential race, said he wants the federal government to stay out of many problems in Montana.

Ribic, who is leaning toward voting for Republican Senate candidate Sheehy in the Montana Senate race, said Sheehy is “trying to try to take government out of health care, trying to take government out of a lot of issues that are important to me. .

“And I’m not in favor of handing things out to people. I think you have to work for what you get,” Ribic said. “And so Sheehy, you know, in my opinion, is Republican, and I’m strongly Republican, and he wants to try to get the federal government out of Montana as much as possible. So I’m leaning in that direction at this particular time.”