Montana Republican Tim Sheehy, a Navy SEAL veteran, has unseated long-time Democrat Sen. Jon Tester.

Sheehy won 53 percent of the vote to Tester’s 45 percent, according to The New York Times, with 93 percent of the votes in at the time of publication. Tester served three terms since 2007.

“We the people made our voices heard, we completed our mission, and now we will secure our children’s future and save America together,” Sheehy posted to X on Wednesday. 

THANK YOU, MONTANA!!

We The People made our voices heard, we completed our mission, and now we will secure our children’s future and save America together!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/tAhb05grPG

— Tim Sheehy (@SheehyforMT) November 6, 2024

Former President Donald Trump, who just won the first nonconsecutive reelection since President Grover Cleveland, endorsed Sheehy as an “American hero” in February, according to Fox News. Prominent Republican senators, including Marco Rubio of Florida, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, also backed Sheehy’s bid for the seat.

Sheehy also got support from the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Candidate Fund in January, the organization noted in a Wednesday press release. The group celebrated his victory, saying pro-life canvassers made more than 114,000 visits across Montana this election.

“We congratulate Senator-elect Tim Sheehy and look forward to working together to protect children before birth and help moms,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser in the release. “Montanans aren’t on board with the Harris-Tester agenda of painful late-term abortions of healthy babies

With 2024 election results tabulated in most states, a clear pattern has emerged. That is, voters have no interest in allowing ranked-choice voting (RCV) to corrupt their elections.

In numerous states across the country, ballot initiatives seeking to implement RCV in elections were overwhelmingly defeated by electors. Under RCV, voters rank candidates of all parties in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and his votes are reallocated to his voters’ second-choice candidate.

This process continues until one candidate receives a majority of votes.

RCV has produced lopsided election results and races with high rates of discarded ballots. It’s often been pushed by Democrats as a way of winning traditionally Republican seats, as evidenced in Alaska and Maine.

In Nevada, early results show more than half of the state’s 2024 electors voting “no” against a constitutional amendment proposal that sought to implement a top-five RCV system. Having been approved by Silver State voters in the last general election, the initiative required passage on Tuesday to be ratified as part of the Nevada Constitution.

As a result of its failure to secure support from a majority of voters, the amendment will not be added to the state’s founding document.

In Arizona, preliminary results indicate voters have defeated Proposition 140. That constitutional amendment proposal sought to institute an open primary system in which candidates of all parties run in the same primary. It

Several abortion initiatives were on state ballots for the Nov. 5 election, and by a narrow margin, voters in two Midwest states, Nebraska and South Dakota, chose the pro-life options.

The Nebraska ballot had two competing questions.

Voters defeated a plan to enshrine the right to kill an unborn baby into the state constitution. The proposal, Nebraska Initiative 439, was opposed by 51 percent of voters, while 49 percent supported it. The initiative called for an amendment to the Nebraska Constitution giving “all persons,” not just women, “a fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability, or when needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant patient, without interference from the state or its political subdivisions.”

The language of the measure did grammar gymnastics to avoid using the words “women” or “mother,” or “baby.”

The amendment defined “fetal viability” as the point in pregnancy when a doctor says the child could survive “outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures.”

While that was struck down, a life-affirming measure passed with 55 percent of the vote. Nebraska Initiative 434, the Prohibit Abortions After the First Trimester Amendment, amends the state constitution to say, “unborn children shall be protected from abortion in the second and third trimesters” except in cases of medical emergencies or pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or incest.

“Thanks to leadership from Sen. Pete Ricketts, Gov. Jim Pillen and GOP leaders, abortion industry lies were challenged and the radical implications of Initiative 439 were exposed while