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Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election a day after being charged with assault
ABC News ^ | 05/26/2017 | Ryan Struyx and Riley Beggin

Posted on 05/26/2017 7:38:35 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

Just 24 hours after being charged with assault for allegedly body-slamming a reporter in his Bozeman campaign office, Republican Greg Gianforte on Thursday defeated Democratic opponent Rob Quist to win the special election for the U.S. House seat in Montana. The race was thrust into the national spotlight in dramatic fashion on Wednesday night after Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs described being "body-slammed" by the GOP candidate, and a Fox News crew who witnessed the incident said the former technology and software executive "grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him." "I'm sick and tired of you guys," Gianforte said in audio of the event released by The Guardian. Jacobs told "Good Morning America" Thursday morning, "I went from being vertical one moment to being horizontal the next."

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HA! HA! Democraps!... Keep scouring the country for a backwater democratic win, you damn losers!!! (Keep throwing your money away!)
1 posted on 05/26/2017 7:38:35 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

If he’d lost they’d still be running with the It’s A Rejection Of Trump meme


2 posted on 05/26/2017 7:39:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: a fool in paradise

100% all day long!!!


3 posted on 05/26/2017 7:40:17 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: a fool in paradise

The cowboy poet just didn’t cut it with the locals...


4 posted on 05/26/2017 7:41:33 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

5 posted on 05/26/2017 7:41:55 AM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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We need to do more ‘basement dweller’ body slamming!!!

Congratulations Montana!!!

6 posted on 05/26/2017 7:42:24 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Jacobs told “Good Morning America” Thursday morning, “I went from being vertical one moment to being horizontal the next.”

Oh, you little crybaby


7 posted on 05/26/2017 7:42:44 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

This twerp, Jacobs, is a Montana Democrat who was signed by the Guardian to cover this special election in hopes that this would be a loss for Pres. Trump.


8 posted on 05/26/2017 7:43:01 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Media correctly stating he won by 6% and inferring that wasn’t by much, though he did garner 50% of the vote, yet when their candidate wins by 6% - it’s a LANDSLIDE folks!!!!!


9 posted on 05/26/2017 7:43:14 AM PDT by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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To: a fool in paradise

Exactly. We win, it’s no big deal. We lose, 42/7 headlines.

And here’s the current headline on Yahoo News, the most non-apologetic never-Trump “news” site:

“Who is Greg Gianforte, the Montana House candidate who allegedly attacked a reporter?”

Oh yeah, he won too.


10 posted on 05/26/2017 7:43:59 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

ABC and other anti Trump mediots are in another snowflake meltdown with this victory for our side.

Mollie Hemingway: Media’s Cartoonish Hostility To Trump Causes People To Tune Out, Not Take Their News Seriously

May 24, 2017

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/blog/detail/mollie-hemingway-medias-cartoonish-hostility-to-trump-causes-people-to-tune-out-not-take-their-news-seriously

Why 63 Million Trump Voters Will Never Leave Trump

5/25/2017, 9:38:54 PM · by 2ndDivisionVet · 22 replies
Townhall ^ | May 26, 2017 | Wayne Allen Root
The latest poll numbers are out. Rasmussen (the most accurate poll of the 2016 election) has Trump at 48 percent approval. It’s important to note that’s just about the exact same place he was at when he was elected president- just under half the country supports him. Since we come out to vote in much higher numbers...and we have an electoral edge in Midwest battleground states...48 percent is all Trump needs to win re-election again. Keep in mind that’s after the two worst weeks in the history of modern presidents. That’s after two weeks of the most biased, vicious, negative...history. That’s after firing the FBI Director.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3555382/posts


11 posted on 05/26/2017 7:44:18 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (120+ days without Hilliarly/Huma as POTUS! Thanks, President Trump for this great reality gift!)
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If you haven’t yet, read on down the articles on FR.

They’re trying the old “Even though a Republican won, it’s a win for Democrats”


12 posted on 05/26/2017 7:47:15 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Rennes Templar

The activist journolist barged into his office and was not a first time offender.

No respect was due a partisan shill.

If the pol was a Rat it would say one day after being attacked in his office...


13 posted on 05/26/2017 7:48:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Typically, when someone speaks up about body-slamming....I have this mental image in my mind of Junkyard-Dog picking up Ted Dibiase over his head and throwing him to the ground.

Can I assume that this Montana method was to just push the Brit reporter enough that he just stumbled onto the group? If so, it’s just not body-slamming.


14 posted on 05/26/2017 7:49:00 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Snowflake reporting: "I took one for the team and broke my glasses to get the cowboy poet elected all for nothing...!!!"
15 posted on 05/26/2017 7:49:26 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Sheeeeeeyit. That's nothing. In Illinois, they elect candidates after they've been convicted.

Illinois City Elects Convicted Felon As Mayor

16 posted on 05/26/2017 7:50:00 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: txrefugee

The Guardians of the Uk. He’s interfering in a US election after colluding with foreign entities.


17 posted on 05/26/2017 7:50:07 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Did this hipster even have lenses in his frames?


18 posted on 05/26/2017 7:51:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

This sounds like an amazingly violent attack - how long did it take the ambulance to respond and has the hospital released his status yet?


19 posted on 05/26/2017 7:51:18 AM PDT by Stingray51
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

So, is he going to pay for the reporter’s glasses?


20 posted on 05/26/2017 7:51:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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