{"id":1958078,"date":"2023-06-27T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/answering-the-call-to-serve-former-navy-seal-launches-bid-to-take-down-montanas-jon-tester\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:47:00","slug":"answering-the-call-to-serve-former-navy-seal-launches-bid-to-take-down-montanas-jon-tester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/answering-the-call-to-serve-former-navy-seal-launches-bid-to-take-down-montanas-jon-tester\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Answering the Call To Serve&#8217;: Former Navy Seal Launches Bid To Take Down Montana&#8217;s Jon Tester"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fanswering-the-call-to-serve-former-navy-seal-launches-bid-to-take-down-montanas-jon-tester%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=1958078&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--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Top GOP recruit Tim Sheehy could face contentious primary<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Tim Sheehy \/ Tim for MT campaign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Montana Democratic senator Jon Tester has a new challenger: Tim Sheehy, a top Republican recruit who served as a Navy SEAL in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sheehy\u2014a Bronze Star with Valor for Heroism in Combat and Purple Heart Medal recipient\u2014launched his candidacy Tuesday, telling Fox News he&#8217;s &#8220;answering the call to serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From inflation to our border to our deficit, America is ready for change. And I think it&#8217;s time for a new generation of leaders to step up,&#8221; Sheehy said. &#8220;One thing I learned in a foxhole in Afghanistan or in the belly of a submarine, is when the chips are down there&#8217;s really only one political party, and that&#8217;s American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sheehy&#8217;s entrance into the race will likely test Senate Republican leaders as they look to avoid another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-push-abortion-messaging-bills-in-preview-of-2024-strategy\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats are promoting abortion messaging bills as a preview of their 2024 strategy.\">disappointing election cycle<\/a> come 2024. During last year&#8217;s races, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) sparred on the party&#8217;s nominees, with McConnell lamenting poor &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-virginia-model\/\" title=\"The Virginia Model\">candidate quality<\/a>&#8221; as then-committee chair Rick Scott (R., Fla.) opted not to intervene in top primaries. This time around, however, new committee head Steve Daines (R., Mont.) is willing to wade into those races\u2014and the Montana Republican could face his first battle in his home state.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because Montana Republican congressman Matt Rosendale, a House Freedom Caucus member, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/06\/23\/conservative-rabble-rouser-matt-rosendale-plans-rematch-against-jon-tester-00103425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning<\/a> a Senate bid of his own. But Rosendale has run against Tester before, losing to the Democrat in 2018 by roughly 4 percentage points. As a result, some in the party have suggested Rosendale could face the same electability issues that plagued top GOP Senate nominees in 2022. Daines is already touting his support for Sheehy, whom he called a &#8220;decorated veteran, successful businessman, and a great Montanan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could not be happier that he has decided to enter the Montana Senate race,&#8221; Daines said in a Tuesday morning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRSC\/status\/1673636664898363392?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his entry in the race, Sheehy &#8220;did several deployments overseas&#8221; after joining the military &#8220;right out of high school.&#8221; The Republican moved to Montana in 2014 to start a business &#8220;after being medically separated from active duty due to wounds being received in Afghanistan,&#8221; his <a href=\"https:\/\/leg.mt.gov\/bills\/2021\/Minutes\/Senate\/Exhibits\/his19a08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">r\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/a> says. Sheehy is CEO of Bridger Aerospace, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-sheehy-announces-senate-bid-against-jon-tester\/\" title=\"Tim Sheehy challenges Jon Tester for Senate seat.\">aerial firefighting company<\/a> that supports &#8220;front-line firefighters with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-and-mi5-warn-business-leaders-chinese-espionage-sweeping-across-the-west\/\" title=\"FBI And MI5 Warn Business Leaders: Chinese Espionage Sweeping Across The West\">world-leading technology<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/answering-the-call-to-serve-former-navy-seal-launches-bid-to-take-down-montanas-jon-tester\/\" title=\"'Former Navy Seal Challenges Montana's Jon Tester'\">aerial fire suppression systems<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sheehy on Tuesday said a lack of veterans in Congress motivated him to enter the race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in one of the lowest participation rates in history of veterans in Congress, and that&#8217;s a huge problem,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We want to get combat veterans in and those who understand service back to help fix this government and get things working right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top GOP recruit Tim Sheehy could face contentious primary Tim Sheehy \/ Tim for MT campaign Montana Democratic senator Jon Tester has a new challenger: Tim Sheehy, a top Republican recruit who served as a Navy SEAL in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sheehy\u2014a Bronze Star with Valor for Heroism in Combat and Purple Heart Medal recipient\u2014launched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1958079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958078","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}