Trump has endorsed Sheehy. He appeared at a rally with him in Bozeman last month and claimed that if Republicans don't retake the White House and Tester's Senate seat, there will be "no country left" the Daily Montanan reported.

Tim Sheehy, the Republican Senate nominee in Montana whose race could flip the balance of the Senate, was recorded last year making comments about Native Americans that perpetuated racist stereotypes,

At a pair of private fundraising events a few months later, in November, Sheehy disparaged the Crow Tribe by peddling a longstanding racist trope about Native Americans and alcoholism, according to audio recordings of the events first obtained by Char-Koosta News,