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Dems watching their victories 'vanish' before them, Montana Senate candidate says ahead of RNC speech
MILWAUKEE – Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy said the Democratic Party is braced to continue to see their victories “vanish” in the lead up to Election Day.
“This whole ‘Donald Trump’s gonna hijack the government and prosecute his adversaries.’ Well, what have they been doing for the last three years? ‘Donald Trump’s gonna advocate for violence on his political adversaries.’ What have they been doing, you know? So I think it’s almost a case of comedic projection, where they’re literally saying Donald Trump’s gonna do everything that they’ve actually been doing for the last three and a half years,” Sheehy told Fox News Digital from the RNC on Tuesday, when asked about the Democratic Party’s anti-Trump rhetoric before and after the assassination attempt on the 45th president’s life.
“So of course, [we] shouldn’t be surprised that now we’re seeing them flip-flop, as they’re watching their victories vanish in front of their face here in the next 90 days. They’re just literally trying to say anything that they can to cling on to potential victory, and that includes outright lies,” he continued.
President Biden and his allies had repeatedly slammed Trump as a “dictator” and Biden saying it is “time to put Trump in a bullseye” just days ahead of a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who tried to shoot and kill Trump at a rally in the Keystone State. Biden has since backtracked on the comments.
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Senate candidate Tim Sheehy (Tim Sheehy for Senate Campaign)
Sheehy, a Navy SEAL veteran running to replace longtime Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, will address the RNC on Tuesday, telling Fox News Digital that he will focus his speech on the GOP winning a “full-ticket victory” in November.
“This event is all about President Trump and soon-to-be Vice President Vance. So, my message is, basically: We’ve got to unify behind them. But we also can’t lose sight of the down-ballot races that will decide the control of the Senate, control of the House. Because if President Trump wins, I should say when he wins, if he doesn’t have a united government, it’s very hard for him to get anything done. From judges, to cabinet secretaries to obviously any sort of legislation. So I’ll be reminding folks of the fact that we’ve got to have a full-ticket victory, not just top of the ticket and we’ve got to bring commonsense back to this country,” he continued.
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The RNC kicked off Monday, when former President Donald Trump announced Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his 2024 running mate. Sheehy lauded the choice, underscoring the need for the GOP to elect a younger generation of politicians.
“It’s incredibly exciting to see Sen. Vance be selected. Obviously, one of my hallmark slogans has been a new generation of leaders. We gotta start getting young blood in the upper ranks of our party, because we have to have a long-standing stable of strong candidates to carry the conservative movement for 20, 30 years to come. And Obviously, JD is right in that category,” Sheehy, said.
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance sit with Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle and Eric Trump during Day 1 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 15, 2024. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
“I look forward to supporting him fully.”
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the Montana race between Sheehy and Tester as a “Toss Up,” with Sheehy commending his competition as a skilled career politician, who now must wrangle with the Democratic Party’s record under the Biden administration.
Sen. Tester suggested he was defeating his Republican opponent by a significant amount in internal polls. (Getty Images)
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“Jon Tester is a career politician, he’s very skilled – not to be underestimated. He’s undefeated in 30 years in office, because that’s what he’s good at. He’s good at saying whatever’s going to get him elected. But it’s going to be really hard for him to outrun the record of the Democratic Party of 2024,” he said.
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Tim Sheehy for the Montana Senate. (Sheehy for Senate)
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“I mean, it is a disaster. He’s voted for every single piece of legislation that’s enabled our sky-high inflation, interest rates running away, stagnant wage growth, of course, our international disaster from Ukraine to Afghanistan. He’s been there rubber-stamping everything Joe Biden and [Vice President Kamala Harris] have done. And now he’s all of a sudden he’s trying to come back to Montana and say, I’m trying to close the border and fight Joe Biden on that. So Montanans are going to keep buying it. It’s going to be a tight race, no question about it, but it’s about time we retire him and Montana is ready to do that.”
Trump endorsed Sheehy earlier this year, while taking a dig at Tester.
“Tim is the candidate who is currently best-positioned to DEFEAT Lazy Jon Tester, and Regain the Republican Majority in the United States Senate,” Trump said in February.
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Honolulu Police Chief David Lazar said the Department of Law Enforcement is helping the department get the required equipment and personnel.
Officers would deploy a drone to a location to let them know what to expect.
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HPD Chief Lazar said, “Our officers need the tools that they need to do the work and to make their work efficient and to capture those that are involved in crime.”
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Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) is facing yet another lawsuit over allegations of unlicensed sampling — only this time, it’s centered on a video clip of the rapper’s infamous 2013 fight with paparazzi.
In a case filed Wednesday (July 15) in Los Angeles federal court, the celebrity news agency Bauer-Griffin claims that Ye, French Montana (Karim Kharbouch) and others used audio from the headline-grabbing incident in “Where They At,” released in 2024 off French’s Mac & Cheese 5.
The May 2013 video, which also features a pregnant Kim Kardashian, shows West charging at a photographer outside a Los Angeles restaurant and shouting “don’t take no photos” and a string of profanities: “All of you m*therf*ckers stop it, man!”
The clip appears prominently in the intro to Montana’s song — a use that the lawsuit calls “blatant and willful” copyright infringement.
“Given Mr. Ye’s history of numerous confrontations with paparazzi, the video was highly newsworthy,” the agency’s lawyers write in legal documents obtained and first reported by Billboard. “Listeners immediately recognized the audio sample that begins the infringing record as being copied from the video.”
Ye has been sued over a dozen times for allegedly using unlicensed samples and interpolations in his music, including a high-profile battle with Donna Summer. In May, he lost a jury trial over using an uncleared sample in an early version of the Grammy-winning “Hurricane” from Donda. He had testified at trial that he’s “very generous” about giving credit and compensation when it’s due, but that “a lot of people try to take advantage of me.”
In Wednesday’s complaint, Bauer-Griffin says the creators of “Where They At” showed no such respect to its rights in the video of the paparazzi incident, using it despite being well aware that sound recordings must be licensed when any amount is directly sampled into a song.
“In the music industry, copyrights are prevalent and well understood,” lawyers for the agency write. “Every defendant knew that they needed to have but did not have permission to use the audio sample.”
Reps for both stars did not immediately return requests for comment. The lawsuit also names as defendants producers Dem Jointz (Dwayne Abernathy Jr.) and BoogzDaBeast (Jahmal Gwin), as well Gamma, the label that released the song, and its distribution unit Vydia.
The confrontation at issue in Wednesday’s lawsuit was one of two high-profile scuffles with paparazzi that year for the rapper, who was then still known as Kanye West. Two months later, he clashed with photographer Daniel Ramos outside of LAX, resulting in a civil assault lawsuit that the star eventually settled two years later on the eve of trial.
As many celebrities have learned over the years, simply appearing in a photo or video does not give someone any legal rights to it. Ownership of such material is always retained by the creator — an inconvenient fact that has sparked lawsuits against Jennifer Lopez, Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa.
It’s unclear who filmed the May 2013 incident, which happened outside a Beverly Hills restaurant minutes after the star had also been filmed accidentally banging his head into a signpost while trying to avoid other photographers. But the rights to the footage have been owned by Bauer-Griffin from the beginning: When TMZ first posted it at the time, it came with a watermark crediting the agency.
“The infringing record has been widely distributed on various streaming platforms, in flagrant violation of plaintiff’s exclusive rights under copyright laws,” Bauer-Griffin’s attorneys write. “Plaintiff brings these claims to vindicate those rights.”
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