Editor’s note: This fact check is part of Lee Montana’s exclusive print partnership with PolitiFact for the 2024 U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Jon Tester and Republican challenger Tim Sheehy.
In his first campaign rally since Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate for the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump attacked Walz and rallied support for a crucial Senate seat in Montana.
“If Comrade Walz and Comrade Harris win this November, the people cheering will be the pink-haired Marxists, the looters, the perverts, the flag burners,” Trump said, invoking a common but misleading line of attack that seeks to paint Democrats’ policies as socialist.
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