Cenk Uygur
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Gianforte Body Slams Reporter, Still Wins Election
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May 27, 2017
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13:28Now PlayingMontana voters love assault. Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz, Mark Thompson, and SueAnn Robinson, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"After being declared the winner of Thursday’s special House election in Montana, Republican Greg Gianforte apologized for assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs the evening before.
“I need to share something from my heart here, and I just ask you to bear with me,” Gianforte told attendees at his victory event. “When you make a mistake, you have to own up to it. That’s the Montana way. Last night, I made a mistake, and I took an action that I can’t take back.”
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The day before, his campaign told a very different story about what happened after Jacobs asked for Gianforte’s reaction to the Congressional Budget Office’s score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA). (Gianforte managed to get through the campaign without taking a position on the bill.)
In a statement released immediately after the incident on Wednesday, a spokesman for Gianforte characterized Jacobs as the aggressor and smeared him as a “liberal journalist” who “created this scene at our campaign volunteer BBQ.”
The statement said Jacobs “aggressively shoved a recorder in Greg’s face” and instigated physical contact with Gianforte.”*
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