Montana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy takes the stage during a rally for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at Montana State University’s Brick Breeden Fieldhouse on August 9, 2024 in Bozeman, Montana.
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NBC News predicts Republican candidate Tim Sheehy will defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in the race for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat.
Mr. Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL and wealthy businessman, had been touted by Republicans as one of their best chances to win the Senate seat.
In the presidential election, former President Donald Trump achieved a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, won several key battleground states, and Republicans gained control of the Senate.
Tester, a farmer who won three terms in the Senate, faced strong headwinds in his bid for re-election.
Sheehy, 38, who owns an aerial firefighting company, spoke in an interview this week with radio host Megyn Kelly about a 2015 incident in Glacier National in Montana that sent him to the hospital after a handgun was fired. I had a hard time explaining it. park.
Park rangers said Mr. Sheehy said he had accidentally shot himself in the arm, but Mr. Sheehy denied it and went to the hospital because he was worried that the bullet in his arm had dislodged during a mutual attack in Afghanistan. He said he went. As a result of a fall in the park. He said he did not report the alleged shooting in Afghanistan to his then-supervisor to avoid an investigation.
