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This Top GOP Recruit Has a Swampy Connection to a Trumpy Rep<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/TimForMt.com</p> <p>One of the GOP’s best hopes to reclaim control of the U.S. Senate, Montana candidate Tim Sheehy, has made cleaning up the much-maligned “Washington swamp” a core promise of his campaign.</p> <p>As he ramps up his bid in one of the most critical states for determining the Senate majority, Sheehy has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-dems-broken-ethics-pledge-shows-need-new-generation-leadership-gop-rival">built a case</a> against Sen. Jon Tester that centers on the incumbent Democrat’s alleged coziness with lobbyists, after Tester failed to heed his own promise to disclose all lobbyist meetings.</p> <p>“For him to act as if he is somehow independent from lobbying, and he's not a part of the Washington complex is just fundamentally untrue,” Sheehy told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-dems-broken-ethics-pledge-shows-need-new-generation-leadership-gop-rival">Fox News Digital</a> in September.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-top-montana-gop-recruit-tim-sheehy-has-a-swampy-connection-to-trumpy-rep-ryan-zinke">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/TimForMt.com

One of the GOP’s best hopes to reclaim control of the U.S. Senate, Montana candidate Tim Sheehy, has made cleaning up the much-maligned “Washington swamp” a core promise of his campaign.

As he ramps up his bid in one of the most critical states for determining the Senate majority, Sheehy has built a case against Sen. Jon Tester that centers on the incumbent Democrat’s alleged coziness with lobbyists, after Tester failed to heed his own promise to disclose all lobbyist meetings.

“For him to act as if he is somehow independent from lobbying, and he’s not a part of the Washington complex is just fundamentally untrue,” Sheehy told Fox News Digital in September.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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