‘Not accurate’: Republican wrong to say Montana has more bears than people

Expert says Senate candidate Tim Sheehy's estimate wildly off as there are 1.12 million people in state and nowhere close to that number of bear'

In the compendium of false claims, an offering from Tim Sheehy, a Montana 2024 Republican Senate candidate, is readily disprovable.

In an interview with Breitbart, the former Navy Seal observed that the state, which he referred to as flyover country", did not typically have much in political power - a situation that could change with the balance of power in the US Senate races next year.