The Montana Democratic Party told Capitolized it didn’t respond to the attorneys. A group of Democratic state legislators wrote Bankhead in July asking that she meet with Bodnar and decide which of them would exit the Senate race. The Washington Reporter is published by Matthew Foldi, a former Republican candidate for U.S. House in Maryland. Bankhead’s Surprising RiseDemocratic U.S. Senate candidate Alani Bankhead. In Idaho, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate David Roth ended his campaign Tuesday, saying his time is better spent campaigning for Democrats down ballot.