Montana Gov. Steve Bullock Steve BullockMcConnell locks down key GOP votes in Supreme Court fight Senate Democrats demand White House fire controversial head of public lands agency Pence seeks to boost Daines in critical Montana Senate race MORE (D), a 2020 presidential hopeful, said Sunday he has done more than any candidate to “make sure that elections are decided by people.”

“I was [state] attorney general when the Citizens United decision came up and I’ve done more to try to make sure that elections are decided by people not corporations than anybody else in this field,” Bullock said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” when he was asked to describe the defining issue of his campaign, also noting anti-“dark money” legislation he collaborated on with a Republican legislature.

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“Fundamentally, we’ve got to get the economy working for all of us not just the Donald Trumps of the world and we have to make sure that people believe that their vote and their voice matters.”

Bullock also dismissed the idea that time was running out to break through in the field, noting that then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonAnxious Democrats amp up pressure for vote on COVID-19 aid Barr's Russia investigator has put some focus on Clinton Foundation: report Epstein podcast host says he affiliated with elites from 'both sides of the aisle' MORE did not enter the Democratic presidential field until October of 1991.

"We'll continue to both listen to folks and also travel. Like this week I'm going all throughout rural Iowa and you'll look at a third of the counties in Iowa voted for Obama twice and then Trump,” Bullock said, arguing that his position as a Democrat who had won a statewide election in a state that went for Trump made him uniquely positioned as well.

“He took Montana by 21 points. I won by four. So I think that I have something meaningful to offer to this,” Bullock said.

Bullock’s campaign has criticized the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for a rule that would tighten eligibility after the first three debates, altering the necessary qualifications from either a polling or fundraising threshold to both.

“I hope that the DNC will play fair by everyone in the field because that's their role is to facilitate the voter’s options, not to try to limit it,” Bullock said on Sunday, noting that the DNC had announced they would not count one poll that showed him the required 1 percent support.

.@GovernorBullock has not yet qualified for the debate stage at the end of the month. “But really at this point we still have a long way to go in this, and this is about people talking to people and actually the voters expressing their preference more than the @DNC rules.” pic.twitter.com/yykptbqSj0 — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) June 9, 2019

--This report was updated at 11:43 a.m.