Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election a day after being charged with assault

ABC News ^ | 05/26/2017 | Ryan Struyx and Riley Beggin

[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."

[Rebelbase]

Good point. Brits colluding with an American Urinolist to influence and election.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

In Illinois, they elect candidates after they've been convicted.

In Illinois, they elect candidates after they've been murdered. (There, fixed it).

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

This seems to have been the sentiment of the voters as well as that of Giantforte

That doesn't even begin to sum up how a lot of us feel....

[Buckeye McFrog]

Big deal. Pittsburgh once elected a Mayor who was sitting in jail.

These people have NO historical perspective.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

I would give a left nut to knock Chris Matthews into tomorrow...

[COBOL2Java]

"I took one for the team and broke my glasses to get the cowboy poet elected all for nothing...!!!"

Ben Jacobs, FAKE reporter: LOSER!

[simpson96]

Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom, dontcha just love it?

:)

[yoe]

Ben Jacobs was an interloper and he was rude to a fault...Republican Greg Gianforte did what lessor beings would love to do with the rude reporters of today...they don't tell the truth anyway...make this a warning to all the offensive and ill-mannered reporters...Fox's Alicia walked back some of her story....reporters seem to glum together even when they are wrong.

Apparently Montanans felt Gianforte was in the right! Good for the people of Montana!

[SMGFan]

Dems say “Damn that early voting!”

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>”grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him.”<<<

The Witness who said that originally walked it back. She admitted she didn’t actually see the guy grabbed by the neck.

The guy should get LASIK so he won’t have to worry about breaking his Glasses.