Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy is highly locked in resulting race Along with Democratic incumbent Jon Tester, he said in newly surfaced audio that the Republican Party needs to do a better job of winning over young women who have been “indoctrinated” on the abortion issue for years.
Sheehy said at an event at the end of 2023: “Young people, listen, they’ve been indoctrinated for too long. We’re not even trying to talk to them anymore.” audio obtained by NBC News.
“A few months ago I sat down with a group of young people and talked about different topics. One of them was life, because of course abortion is the number one concern of young women between the ages of 19 and 30. That’s all they want to talk about.
“And it’s all about pro-choice, pro-choice. Well, “Republicans are pro-life. They want to take away my rights and arrest me and put me in jail.” I said, “You know the Democrats’ position on abortion, they stand up for women.
At that time, Shehi, who was already a candidate for the Senate, then a point of lying This was echoed by former President Donald Trump and other Republicans, who argued that the Democratic Party supports the killing of babies shortly after birth.
“This is called murder. This is the position of the American Democratic Party,” said Sheehy.
The audio matches Sheehy’s recently reported quotes Daily Montanan. The audio was first published by this site Char-Koosta News in Montana.
Tester’s campaign criticized Sheehy for the remarks.
“For Tim Sheehy to call young women ‘educated’ because they value reproductive freedom just shows how out of touch he is with Montanans,” Tester spokeswoman Monica Robinson said. “In Montana, we don’t want government telling us what to do — and Sheehy’s position that politicians should have the final say on our health care is just one of the many ways he’s trying to make Montana worse.”
A spokeswoman for the Sheehy campaign responded to the tape Monday, saying that Tester is “in full desperation mode and the liberal media in D.C. is starting to go hook, line and sinker, pushing a bogus narrative.”
A spokesman did not dispute the accuracy of Sheehy’s quotes.
“Tim has made it clear that he is pro-life, except for rape, incest and the life of the mother. Stop it,” his campaign said. “What we have to discuss is that each time Tester could support common sense Law on live birthsDemanding the intervention of medical professionals if the baby survives the botched abortion, Tester sided with the radical liberals and said no. It’s an extreme position here, and Tester knows he’s toast in November.
There is a fiercely competitive race major national influences and could determine which party controls the Senate for the next two years. Republicans must win a net two seats to take control of the Senate, or if Trump wins the White House, the vice president could cast tie-breaking votes in the chamber.
There are measures related to abortion On the ballot in 10 states This November, the Supreme Court decided Roe v. The first presidential election since Wade’s cancellation was canceled with the help of the former Trump’s three-candidate nomination for the chair. Democrats have used the issue to draw voters’ attention, warning that a Republican majority in Congress could lead to a national law banning abortion, while many Republican candidates have struggled to craft a unified message on the issue.
Sheehy’s comments last year were similar to those of Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno at a town hall last month, in which he complained that many “suburban women” were “downstairs.”single-issue voters” when it comes to abortion. Moreno is in a tight race against Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.
“You know, the left has a lot of voters,” Moreno said at the event, according to the obtained video. NBC affiliate WCMH of Columbus.
“Unfortunately, by the way, there are a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women who say, ‘Listen, this is what abortion is. “If I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will vote for someone else.” … OK. It’s a little crazy, by the way, but — especially for women over 50 — I think to myself, ‘I don’t think this is a problem for you,'” Moreno said.
Moreno’s spokesman described the remarks as “an inside joke that Sherrod Brown and members of the left-wing media like to pretend that abortion is the only issue that matters to women voters.”