Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy says there are no records to prove story of his gunshot wound
Montana Republican candidate Tim Sheehy struggled to explain differing accounts of the bullet in his right arm ahead of a critical Senate election on Tuesday.
Montana’s Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy struggled in a new interview to give a clear explanation about the circumstances surrounding a 2015 incident in a national park that led to his treatment for a gunshot wound and receipt of a fine.
In the interview with radio host and former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, which was posted online Thursday, Sheehy left Kelly confused, and she warned him that the voters in Montana were unclear about what happened. “I just want to give you the chance to explain yourself, because this is their closing message. It’s all about this incident of — voters are confused. … It’s so confusing,” she told him.
The controversy looms over a crucial Senate race in Montana that both parties see as pivotal to capturing the majority in the final days of a hotly contested election.
The questions stem from differing accounts Sheehy has given about a bullet lodged in his right arm.
All accounts agree that, as first reported by The Washington Post this spring, Sheehy went to the hospital after his gun went off in Glacier National Park in 2015 (firing a weapon is illegal in a national park).
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