Ryan Zinke, Trump's former Interior secretary, will win GOP primary in Montana's 1st District

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Ryan Zinke, Trump's former Interior secretary, will win GOP primary in Montana's 1st District, CNN projects

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 0130 GMT (0930 HKT) June 10, 2022

(CNN) — Former Rep. Ryan Zinke, who left his seat for a scandal-plagued tenure as then-President Donald Trump's Interior secretary, has won the GOP primary in Montana's 1st Congressional District, CNN projects.

Zinke, a former Navy SEAL and Montana state senator who was first elected to the House in 2014 and reelected in 2016 before resigning to join Trump's Cabinet, seized on an opening created when the 2020 census results handed the Treasure State a second congressional district.

Rep. Matt Rosendale, who holds the state's one at-large district seat, ran for reelection in the newly created 2nd District, where CNN projected he would be the Republican nominee, while Zinke campaigned in the 1st District.

Zinke prevailed over four other candidates in the primary, including former state Sen. Albert Olszewski and pastor Mary Todd. He overcame criticism from rivals to his right over whether he was sufficiently supportive of Trump and the former President's effort to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/ryan-zinke-montana-1st-congressional-district/index.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. Of course he did...

perhaps the most corrupt of trump's cabinet appointees.

He fits right in with the repub party.

[Ocelot II]

2. Corruption seems to be a positive attribute for GOP candidates.

[Irish_Dem]

3. American people like sociopaths as their leaders.

What does this say about the American psyche?

[allegorical oracle]

4. Zinke just may be more of a narcissist than TFG. Recall reading that he had some personal flag

of his that would be raised over the Interior Dept. was he was present...similar to Queen Elizabeth's flag that signaled if she was at Buckingham palace versus Windsor Castle. Zinke is several lobes shy of a normal brain.