{"id":1510218,"date":"2022-06-10T09:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510218"},"modified":"2022-06-10T09:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:50:14","slug":"former-trump-admin-official-wins-gop-nomination-for-open-montana-congressional-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-trump-admin-official-wins-gop-nomination-for-open-montana-congressional-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump Admin Official Wins GOP Nomination For Open Montana Congressional Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-trump-admin-official-wins-gop-nomination-for-open-montana-congressional-seat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510218&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A former member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\">Trump<\/a> administration has narrowly won a primary race in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/montana\">Montana<\/a> to be the Republican nominee for a key seat in an open congressional district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/former-trump-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-wins-montana-house-republican-primary\">defeated<\/a> orthopedic surgeon Al Olszewski by 1,600 votes to be the GOP nominee in Montana\u2019s new 1st Congressional District. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ryan-zinke\">Zinke<\/a> will now take on Democrat Monica Tranel in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/2022-election\">November<\/a>\u00a0in the district, which <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/redistricting-2022-maps\/montana\/\">leans<\/a> about plus 10 Republican.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you Western Montana for your confidence that America can be fixed and for ignoring the political BS,\u201d Zinke <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanZinke\/status\/1535043918940602368?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cWe have a great team and dedicated volunteers who believe in American values.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zinke received the endorsements of former President Donald Trump, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), and Governor Greg Gianforte (R-MT).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Olszewski, who has been a state senator, lost by under 2,000 votes in a primary of 84,500 votes. Both Olszewski and Zinke were hoping to take advantage of Montana\u2019s new congressional district, which it gained by population growth.<\/p>\n<p>During the primary battle, Zinke was <a href=\"https:\/\/helenair.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/trump-ally-zinke-fights-claim-hes-too-liberal-for-montana\/article_d8cf8d27-0b30-5843-90a0-985b1aa7e00f.html\">criticized<\/a> by Olszewski and others for being liberal and receiving too many out-of-state donations. According to the Helena Independent Record, about 80% of donations to the Zinke campaign were from out of state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The initial results had been delayed due to ballot printing errors, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-congress-ryan-zinke-montana-38b97d7d854aa9c5c6827654e81c675c\">according<\/a> to the Associated Press. Ballots had been printed on the wrong size paper, leading to Lincoln County hand counting about 6,000 ballots.<\/p>\n<p>While serving as Interior Secretary from 2017-2018, Zinke was hit with accusations of unethical behavior and multiple investigations, one of which said he lied to an ethics agency regarding his role with a real estate company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet official called the investigations and accusations \u201cvicious and politically motivated attacks\u201d while stepping down from his position after two years. Before his role in the Trump administration, Zinke was a Navy SEAL, state senator, and Montana\u2019s congressional representative from 2015-2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder Ryan Zinke\u2019s leadership at the Department of the Interior, the U.S. achieved Energy Dominance, increased federal energy revenues, and responsibly opened federal acreage for energy production,\u201d Trump said in his endorsement. \u201cHe was instrumental in expanding public access to public lands for recreation and rebuilding our National Parks and Forests infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tranel, an attorney, handily won the Democratic nomination, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonicaTranel\/status\/1534671822850908162\">accused<\/a> Zinke of having a \u201crecord of corruption.\u201d On her campaign website, Tranel highlights several issues on her campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/monicatranel.com\/issues\/\">website<\/a> including her \u201cstand against corporate corruption,\u201d advocacy for federal election law, and commitment to preserving \u201cabortion access\u201d in light of an impending Supreme Court decision some expect to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former member of the Trump administration has narrowly won a primary race in Montana to be the Republican nominee for a key seat in an open congressional district.\u00a0 Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke defeated orthopedic surgeon Al Olszewski by 1,600 votes to be the GOP nominee in Montana\u2019s new 1st Congressional District. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1510237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}