NEW: Tim Sheehy “Goes to Extreme Lengths to Dodge the Media” and Runs from CNN Camera
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Friday, October 4, 2024
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“[Sheehy’s] campaign orchestrated his departure to try to deny a TV camera from getting footage of him leaving – going as far as dispatching a pickup truck to block the camera in order to let Sheehy leave without being seen”
Helena, MT – Shady Sheehy is doing everything he can to hide himself behind closed doors from the press, new reporting from CNN revealed.
Sheehy won’t grant interviews and “goes to extreme lengths to dodge the media.” This week, Sheehy blocked a CNN TV camera from getting footage of him leaving events – “going as far as dispatching a pickup truck to block the camera in order to let Sheehy leave without being seen in another vehicle” – while refusing to tell Montanans or the media, “Who are you exactly?”
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CNN: How the Senate GOP’s potential majority maker is staying ‘shielded’ in push to oust Tester in Montana
October 4th, 2024
Manu Raju and Haley Talbot
Tim Sheehy stumped behind closed doors earlier this week here with a crowd of supporters eager to make him the GOP’s Senate majority maker.
Sheehy and his campaign have gone to extreme lengths to avoid press scrutiny.
Sheehy rarely grants interviews to local or national press, while his campaign doesn’t discuss his schedule or provide information about his events, which tend to be closed affairs.
And after CNN was turned away from the Bozeman event this week, after learning about it through sources, his campaign orchestrated his departure to try to deny a TV camera from getting footage of him leaving – going as far as dispatching a pickup truck to block the camera in order to let Sheehy leave without being seen in another vehicle.
[Senator Steve Daines] added: “I wish you could have seen him in action.”
“So he’s constructed this persona that he is this young conservative veteran, and doesn’t really want to deviate from that or have anyone ask him any questions about, well, where do you stand on this issue? Where did you get your money? Where did you come from? Who are you exactly?” said Mike Dennison, a long-time Montana political journalist, said of Sheehy’s strategy.
“He’s pretty much shielded himself from the media,” Dennison added.
Sheehy did participate in two debates with Tester, including this past week where the candidates sparred over abortion, immigration and character [...] Tester seized on some of Sheehy’s past statements, including over Native Americans, and accused him of seeking to privatize entitlement programs.
And as Tester defended his handling of immigration, he pointed to Sheehy’s opposition to a bipartisan border security bill that Republicans killed in Congress earlier this year, saying that his GOP opponent was only listening to his “party bosses.”
Sheehy [...] left out the back without taking questions from the press.
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