Montana will vote Thursday to fill the U.S. House seat vacated in March by now-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. But Gianforte’s own strategists describe him as “basically an unpopular incumbent trying to get re-elected.”The race for the state’s only House seat will likely be close. Gianforte had a 6-point lead over Quist in a poll released this month by a Democratic political action committee. The election took an unexpected turn on Wednesday evening, when Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs accused Gianforte of “body-slamming” him. “You just body slammed me and broke my glasses.”“Get the hell out of here,” Gianforte says again.

Source: Huffington Post May 25, 2017 04:04 UTC