NEW: Transplant Tim and Maryland Matt Face Scrutiny For Their Out-Of-State Roots

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, February 15, 2024

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Helena, MT – As NBC News reports, Maryland Matt Rosendale and Transplant Tim Sheehy have serious carpetbagger vulnerabilities that undermine their credibility in Montana and will dog them on the campaign trail.  

KEY QUOTES:

• “Senate Republicans’ roster of candidates is full of carpetbaggers with tenuous ties to the states they’re running in,” said Tommy Garcia, a spokesperson for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “These out-of-state GOP Senate candidates are badly out of touch with the voters that they want to represent and it will lead their campaigns to defeat in 2024.”

• “In the end, I really don’t think it matters for me,” Tester, who boasts about his work on the Montana dirt farm that’s been in his family for generations, told NBC News last week after Rosendale entered the race. “It’s either an out-of-stater that [Senate GOP Leader Mitch] McConnell’s picked or out-of-stater that McConnell hasn’t picked.”

• Democrats have scrutinized the Republicans’ ranching bona fides and have mocked Sheehy’s false contention that Montana has more bears than people. This week, the Montana Democratic Party let loose a mobile billboard featuring an ad that frames Sheehy as an “out-of-state tech millionaire … playing cowboy.”

• “Maryland Matt and Transplant Tim may try to hide their out-of-state roots, but Montanans have a nose for the bull,” said Hannah Rehm, a Montana Democratic Party spokesperson.
   

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