The leading Republican candidate in the race to succeed retiring Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke is promising voters that he will oppose efforts to sell federally owned land.
Aaron Flint — a conservative radio host backed by the GOP incumbent, as well as President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) — indicated he would carry on the retiring congressman’s record of fighting large-scale federal land transfers.
The candidates comments come as some Republicans in Congress continue pushing for public land sales, an idea popular in parts of the West but frowned upon in Montana among members of both parties.
“Public lands in public hands,” Flint said in a radio interview with Northern Ag Network, when asked about his stance on federal lands.
