GOP Star Recruit Brags About ‘Rural’ Upbringing. He Grew Up 15 Minutes From the City.
As he works to connect with voters in the very rural state he has adopted as his home, Montana Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy is touting what he claims is his own countryside upbringing in Minnesota.
“I grew up in rural Minnesota,” Sheehy told the Working Ranch Radio Podcast in October 2023. “And although we were not farmers, I grew up in an old farmstead and we were surrounded by farmland.”
Since launching his campaign to unseat vulnerable Sen. Jon Tester (D) last year, Sheehy has described his “rural” childhood on multiple occasions—at a fundraiser for Montana rodeo, in multiple podcast and radio hits, as well as in an interview with Western Ag Reporter.