US EditionHelena Candidate Faces Backlash Over Voicemail Wishing Cancer on Sen. Sheehy as Recording Surfaces on Election Eve
Haley McKnight left a voicemail with death threats tied to Medicaid policy anger, with 32% of Helena ballots returned before the city commission election, officials said.
- On Monday, U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy's office issued a release linking to a National Review article that recounted a threatening voicemail earlier this year left at his Helena district office by Haley McKnight, a candidate for Helena city commission.
- McKnight called Sheehy’s Helena district office on July 1 after the Senate advanced the Republican-backed One Big Bill and said Sheehy’s votes stripped away health care for 17 million Americans.
- The voicemail included threats like `I hope that you die in the street like a dog` and `one day you're gonna live to regret this`, according to the posted recording on National Review's website.
- After the voicemail surfaced, the senator's office said it had notified law enforcement; Haley McKnight told MTN Monday the call was not intended as a threat and she does not wish the senator harm.
- The controversy surfaced a day before the Nov. 4 all-mail Helena election where Haley McKnight is one of four candidates vying for two city commission seats, and she claims the timing seemed politically motivated with numerous death threats since.
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THE VIOLENT LEFT: Profanity-laced Voicemail Exposes Left-wing Candidate's Death Threats Against GOP Senator
Freshman U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) was the recipient of a profanity-laced voicemail containing death threats and personal insults from Haley McKnight, a Helena city commissioner candidate, a recording obtained and verified by Fox News Digital shows.
ICYMI: Helena City Commission Candidate Wished Cancer on Senator Sheehy in Threatening Voicemail: ‘I Hope You Die’ - Senator Tim Sheehy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 3, 2025 ICYMI: Helena City Commission Candidate Wished Cancer on Senator Sheehy in Threatening Voicemail: ‘I Hope You Die’ National Review published a story on a voicemail left for Senator Sheehy by Haley McKnight, a liberal candidate for Helena City Commission. In the message, McKnight wishes terminal pancreatic cancer, death, and infertility on […]
Leftist Montana city commission candidate leaves threatening voicemail for Sen Sheehy hoping he gets cancer, ‘dies in the street like a dog’
“[It’s] not very becoming of me, but yeah, I was speaking out of a justified rage for what our senator has done to erode our Constitution…”
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