HELENA — Just a day before Helena’s city elections, U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy’s office said they received a threatening voicemail earlier this year from one of the candidates: Haley McKnight, running for Helena city commission. McKnight says she regrets some of the language she used, but that she feels her anger over Sheehy’s actions in office was “justifiable rage.”

Sheehy’s office issued a news release Monday, linking to an article from the conservative publication National Review . It says McKnight called Sheehy’s Helena district office on July 1, after the Senate advanced Republicans’ “One Big Bill” that included tighter restrictions on Medicaid.

The article quotes McKnight as saying Sheehy’s policies “stripped away health care” for millions of Americans.

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