{"id":2354982,"date":"2024-10-15T05:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T09:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sheehy-says-tester-reelection-would-mean-third-trump-impeachment-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T05:10:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T09:10:47","slug":"sheehy-says-tester-reelection-would-mean-third-trump-impeachment-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sheehy-says-tester-reelection-would-mean-third-trump-impeachment-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheehy says Tester reelection would mean third Trump impeachment &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fsheehy-says-tester-reelection-would-mean-third-trump-impeachment-washington-examiner%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=2354982&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>In a heated Senate race in Montana, Republican candidate Tim Sheehy is\u2062 making a strong case against incumbent Democrat \u2062Jon Tester as the election nears. Sheehy, \u200ca former Navy SEAL, argues\u2062 that reelecting \u2062Tester will enable the\u200d third impeachment of former President Donald Trump should he regain the presidency, claiming that Tester voted for Trump&#8217;s impeachment \u200btwice. Sheehy emphasizes the stakes of\u200b the race, framing the\u200b Senate&#8217;s role as pivotal in controlling \u2062the direction of the \u200ccountry. <\/p>\n<p>With Trump dominating Montana&#8217;s political landscape,\u2063 Sheehy is trying \u200dto gain traction among voters by highlighting Tester&#8217;s alignment \u2062with President Biden&#8217;s policies, attempting to \u2062distance himself from the national Democratic party&#8217;s influences. Public\u2064 polling gives Sheehy a slight advantage, indicating a shift in voter sentiment in a state that \u200chas become \u2062increasingly Republican. Accompanied by GOP leaders, including \u2062Senator \u200dJoni Ernst, Sheehy continues to rally support,\u2063 stressing the importance of the Montana Senate seat\u200d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bob-casey-says-terminology-used-in-abortion-debate-antiquated-post-dobbs\/\" title=\"Bob Casey deems abortion debate terminology &#039;outdated&#039; after Dobbs case.\">broader political landscape<\/a>. The race has escalated into one of the most expensive Senate \u200ccontests in history, with both candidates vying for crucial votes in the final stretch before the election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Tim Sheehy&rsquo;s closing pitch: Jon Tester would enable third Trump impeachment<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1760338\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>GLENDIVE, Montana &mdash; <\/strong>Republican Tim Sheehy is warning voters in the final days before the election that his closely watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/montana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Montana\">Montana<\/a> Senate race has higher stakes than control of the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The former Navy SEAL argued that reelecting Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jon-tester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jon Tester\">Jon Tester<\/a> (D-MT) to a fourth term means former President <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> would be impeached for a third time if he returns to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Make no mistake: If he does not have a Congress that&rsquo;s supporting his actions, we saw last time what happened. He was impeached twice,&rdquo; Sheehy told a small group of supporters gathered for a rally on Monday. &ldquo;Oh, by the way, your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-warn-of-one-party-rule-if-democrats-win-ga-runoffs\/\" title=\"Republicans warn of \u2018one party rule\u2019 if Democrats win Ga. runoffs\">senior senator<\/a>, Jon Tester, voted to impeach him not once but twice. If Trump doesn&rsquo;t have the Senate when he gets there, he will be impeached right away.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Tester campaign did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The case laid out by Sheehy comes in the remaining weeks of what has become the most expensive Senate race in history, and it assumes Trump would retake the presidency while Democrats keep the Senate and flip the House.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are almost certain to take back the Senate, with or without Sheehy, if Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris, given Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) would be the tiebreaker as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Sheehy&rsquo;s pitch was emblematic of the likelihood that the winner of his race may very well be the Senate majority-maker.<\/p>\n<p>Tester, fighting for his political life in a Trump-dominated state that has drastically reddened since he was first elected in 2006, is banking on winning over split-ticket voters by distancing himself from the Biden administration and national Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Sheehy sought to counter that messaging by painting the picture of a Democratic Congress putting up roadblocks under a second Trump term against confirming Cabinet, judicial, and Supreme Court nominees.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Senate, arguably, is just as important as the White House this cycle,&rdquo; Sheehy said. &ldquo;And our state, Montana, will have a deciding vote.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former President Donald Trump listens as Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy speaks at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Montana, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo\/Rick Bowmer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sheehy spoke to a crowd of just under 150 supporters. It was a size that exceeded the campaign&rsquo;s expectations, and what surrogates said underscored the enthusiasm for the GOP challenger, given it was in the middle of a Monday in a small eastern town near North Dakota with a population of barely 4,000. The rally was not promoted on social media by event space organizers at the direction of the Sheehy campaign, according to event staffers.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> was the only media outlet present.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The bottom line is if Biden-Harris have done it, Tester&rsquo;s voted for it, including voting against all President Trump&rsquo;s Supreme Court nominees,&rdquo; Sheehy said.<\/p>\n<p>Nonpartisan election forecasters give the Republican a slight edge over Tester, a multigenerational dirt farmer who has accused Sheehy of being a wealthy carpetbagger and lacking deep roots in the Great Plains State. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sheehy has surged ahead of Tester by several points in public polling in recent months. The political newcomer branded the statistic to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> as a small but important milestone against a well-funded incumbent Democrat whose name recognition stretches to every corner of the state.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Coming from never run for anything in my life &mdash; it&rsquo;s not like I&rsquo;m an established political name. I came from fighting wars and building businesses to doing this,&rdquo; Sheehy said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m pretty happy where we&rsquo;re at. We can&rsquo;t rest on our laurels, as one of the most well-funded Democrats in the nation with the full backing of the Montana media, and the national media do everything they can to push him across the finish line.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sheehy was accompanied by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), a member of GOP leadership. She lamented on her time back in Washington serving with Tester, the man she said whose voting record proves he is a closet liberal for largely aligning with President Joe Biden. Ernst also credited him for recruiting Harris to the Senate in 2016 as the then-chairman of the Democrats&rsquo; campaign arm.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was literally Jon Tester that brought her into the fold,&rdquo; Ernst said. &ldquo;So now, we have this San Diego liberal-left senator that became vice president that is now running to be president of our great United States of America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ernst put the race into stark terms of her own: Elect Sheehy to be the GOP&rsquo;s &ldquo;seat No. 51,&rdquo; or reelect Tester and kiss the majority goodbye forever. She charged Democrats with wanting to abolish the 60-vote filibuster threshold to usher through an array of liberal policies, including packing the Supreme Court and adding four new Democratic seats by giving statehood to Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tester has resisted progressive efforts to remove the 60-vote requirement entirely but has proposed changes or legislative carve-outs that would weaken it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Republicans will never, ever again have a majority in the United States Senate,&rdquo; Ernst said. &ldquo;We have got to defend our nation, and the way we do it is through the United States Senate.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1760338\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1760338\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Sheehy warns Jon Tester&#8217;s reelection could lead to Trump&#8217;s third impeachment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2354983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Montana-GOP-Senate-nominee-Tim-Sheehy.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5894,40210,4941,43022,32076],"class_list":["post-2354982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-politics","tag-sheehy","tag-tester","tag-trump-impeachment","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Montana-GOP-Senate-nominee-Tim-Sheehy.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354982","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\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}