“Elective abortions up to and including the moment of birth. Healthy, 9-month-year-old baby killed at the moment of birth. That’s what Jon Tester and the Democrats have voted for.
” Tim Sheehy, Montana GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, said in a June 8 debate Tim Sheehy, the Republican candidate seeking to unseat Democratic Sen.
Jon Tester of Montana and give U.S. Senate control to the GOP, is campaigning on what he calls Tester’s and Democrats’ “extreme” position on abortion.
This story also ran on . It can be . In a televised debate June 8, Sheehy accused Tester and Democrats of voting for “elective abortions up to and including the moment of birth.
” That statement prompted Tester to respond: “To say we’re killing babies at 40 weeks is total BS.” Sheehy has made this accusation on , which says, “Jon Tester supports elective abortion on demand up until the moment of birth. Think about that again: Jon Tester supports aborting a healthy, full-term baby the day before it’s due.
That is the extreme position here.” Similar statements have been made in the campaign’s posts. Painting the Democratic candidate with, in Sheehy’s words, an “extreme” position on abortion is a familiar conservative campaign strategy and campaign this .
But how does it hold up? Asked for evidence to support Sheehy’s accusations, Sheehy’s campaign spokesperson, Katie Martin, said the Republican candidate was referring to Tester’s vote for the , which failed to pass t.