Dem Senator Just Got Some Really Bad 2024 News
Tim Sheehy, a Montana businessman, former Navy Seal, and a leader in the state's firefighting industry, is running for Senate in the November 2024 election. Sheehy, a Republican, announced exclusively with Fox News Digital Tuesday, that he is answering the call to serve and launching a campaign to unseat Montana's vulnerable Democratic incumbent Sen. John Tester.
"From inflation to our border to our deficit, America is ready for change. And I think it's time for a new generation of leaders to step up," Sheehy told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. "Leaders who understand servant leadership, which is putting the mission before yourself, and leaders who understand how to get results."
Sheehy graduated high school and joined the Navy, going on to serve in Iraq, Afghanistan, South America, and the Pacific region. For his service in combat, Sheehy was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor and the Purple Heart Medal.
The Montana candidate owns several businesses across the state and is the CEO of Bridger Aerospace, a company that builds aerial firefighting aircraft. With Bridger Aerospace, Sheehy has created over 200 jobs in the state and helped with wildfire suppression efforts.
"One thing that I've done with my businesses is create good, high-paying jobs here in the state," Sheehy said. "These aren't jobs that are dependent on out-of-state visitors or out-of-state revenue. These are jobs that exist here in our state that are creating careers in our state. And I think that's a very important trajectory we want to put our state economy on."
To move Montana forward, Sheehy has proposed using "common sense land management policy that's rooted in local governance and business principles," instead of out-of-state dictations. When it comes to the federal government, Sheehy added that Montanans don't want more of it in their daily lives.
Though incumbent Tester announced re-election in February, Sheehy believes it will be hard for him to run away from the "Democrat Party's agenda of inflation, open borders, criminals over cops, drugs and violence in our communities, and a woke culture impacting our classrooms and military bases."
The Senate candidate expressed that while he doesn't know yet if former President Donald Trump will play in the Montana Senate primary, the conversation they had was "very positive."
Sheehy concluded his exclusive interview, by asking Montanans to help bring a commonsense government that runs like a business and his campaign "positive vision for the future of our country."
"We have serious challenges as a nation, and I think we need serious people who want to bring common sense solutions to actually move the country forward," Sheehy told Fox News Digital. "I think Americans and Montanans, who are incredibly practical people, they just want things to get done, and they want a leader who can actually bring common sense solutions to some of our serious problems."