{"id":2030727,"date":"2023-09-13T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-look-to-meddle-in-montanas-gop-senate-primary\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:17:11","slug":"dems-look-to-meddle-in-montanas-gop-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-look-to-meddle-in-montanas-gop-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems aim to interfere in Montana&#8217;s GOP Senate primary."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdems-look-to-meddle-in-montanas-gop-senate-primary%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=2030727&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>Chuck \u200cSchumer&#8217;s Senate Majority PAC has \u2064long used\u2062 astroturf groups to boost \u2063Dems in western states<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>      Senate Majority Leader Chuck \u2063Schumer (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Democrats are using a new super PAC to meddle \u2062in the Montana GOP Senate\u200d primary and stop former Navy SEAL Tim\u2063 Sheehy from emerging as the nominee, \u200bcampaign finance disclosures suggest.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c new group, Last Best\u200c Place PAC,\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/pdf\/872\/202309059596979872\/202309059596979872.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registered<\/a> \u2062with \u200dthe Federal \u2064Election Commission last \u200bweek and placed a six-figure ad buy attacking Sheehy&#8217;s\u2062 business career, describing it as unethical. \u200bThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leading-candidate-for-new-york-city-mayor-may-not-live-in-city-report-suggests\/\" title=\"Leading Candidate For New York City Mayor May Not Live In City, Report Suggests\">registration form<\/a> and\u200d ad buy include two telltale signs that \u200dnational Democrats are behind the effort.\u2062 The PAC&#8217;s registration form lists Amalgamated Bank\u2014which has long\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/disbursements\/?data_type=processed&#038;committee_id=C00484642&#038;recipient_name=Amalgamated&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worked<\/a> with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.)\u2014as its depository, and \u2063the group used a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-look-to-meddle-in-montanas-gop-senate-primary\/\" title=\"Dems aim to interfere in Montana's GOP Senate primary.\">prominent left-wing media firm<\/a>, Virginia-based Old\u2063 Town Media, to purchase the\u2064 advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosures, first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2023\/09\/12\/congress\/montana-senate-sheehy-pac-ads-00115276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> \u2064 by <em>Politico<\/em>, suggest Schumer and other\u200c Democrats are again attempting to influence Republican Senate primaries and tilt them toward nominees they feel are easier to beat, a tactic that helped the party gain a seat in the upper chamber last year. While Sheehy has not yet attracted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazing-work-wisconsin-dem-lauds-group-that-aims-to-defund-police-abolish-ice\/\" title=\"\u2018Amazing Work\u2019: Wisconsin Dem Lauds Group That Aims to Defund Police, Abolish ICE\">prominent primary opponent<\/a>, Republican \u2064Montana congressman Matt Rosendale has <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\">reportedly informed<\/a> colleagues that\u2063 he \u200bplans to enter the race. Rosendale lost to \u2062Democratic senator Jon \u2063Tester by nearly 4 points in 2018,\u200b and National Republican \u2064Senatorial Committee chairman Steve Daines, who serves as Montana&#8217;s junior \u200bsenator, has\u200c already endorsed \u2062Sheehy as he looks to avoid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-he-expects-to-run-for-reelection-in-2024\/\" title=\"Biden says he expects to run for reelection in 2024\">contentious primary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>National Republican Senatorial\u2064 Committee spokesman Mike \u200dBerg suggested Last Best Place PAC&#8217;s emergence shows that Schumer\u2063 wants Rosendale to\u200c &#8220;run and lose to Jon Tester \u2064again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This shady Schumer-Tester front group is meddling in the Montana Republican primary because they fear Tim Sheehy and know\u2063 he\u2063 is the strongest general election opponent,&#8221;\u200d Berg said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer&#8217;s Senate\u200b Majority PAC did not return \u2063a \u2064request for comment. Last Best Place PAC\u200b has thus far declined to reveal the source of its funding.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer \u2062spent millions in \u200d2022 to elevate \u2062certain candidates in GOP Senate \u2062primaries. In New \u2062Hampshire, for example, the\u2063 Democrat&#8217;s PAC spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/nh-news\/2022-09-08\/in-final-days-of-n-h-gop-senate-primary-millions-in-advertising-from-out-of-state-interests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than $3 million<\/a> \u200bto\u200c boost Republican Don Bolduc, who went \u200con to \u200csecure\u2063 the nomination and lose the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-transcript-edit-turns-kamala-harris-depopulation-statement-into-something-else-entirely\/\" title=\"White House transcript edit alters Kamala Harris' depopulation statement significantly.\">general \u2062election<\/a> to Democratic senator Maggie Hassan by nearly 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer also has\u2064 a history of using pop-up super \u2062PACs to run ads in Montana. In 2020, Schumer&#8217;s Senate Majority PAC\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/schumer-pac-teams-with-montana-liberals-disguised-as-grassroots-hunting-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">partnered<\/a> with Montana Hunters and Anglers, a\u2062 liberal super\u200c PAC disguised as a grassroots\u2063 hunting group, to imply that Montana Democrat Steve\u200b Bullock had support from local sportsmen.\u200d But groups such as the Montana Shooting Sports Association \u200bblasted the effort, and Bullock\u2064 went on to lose to Daines by 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Last \u200cBest Place PAC, which used a P.O. box \u2062in Montana \u200dto register with the FEC, will \u200bnot have to report its donors until early 2024. The Montana \u2062GOP Senate primary will take place next June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Schumer&#8217;s Senate Majority PAC has a history of employing astroturf organizations to support Democrats in the West. Now, they are utilizing a new super PAC to interfere in the Montana GOP Senate primary, aiming to prevent former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy from becoming the nominee. This move raises concerns about campaign finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":2030728,"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-2030727","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\/2030727","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\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}