Montana AG Austin Knudsen On The Leftist Lawfare Plaguing His State

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to explain how the leftist lawfare and a weak judiciary hamper Montana Republicans' effectiveness and to discuss the partisan campaign to disbar him for disagreeing with the Montana Supreme Court.

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0:00.0	You're going to be. And we're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittles Senior
0:22.2	Elections Correspondent at the Federalist and your
0:24.8	experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge. As always you can email the
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0:37.8	subscribe wherever you download your podcast and of course to the premium version of our website as well.
0:44.0	Our guest today on the Federalist Radio Hour,
0:47.0	Montana Attorney General Austin Knutzen fighting the good fight,
0:52.0	the tough fight in Montana.
0:55.0	Welcome to the show, thank you for being here.
0:57.0	You bet, thanks for having me.
0:58.0	Absolutely.
0:59.0	Give us a sense of Montana politics as it stands today and what folks don't maybe don't
1:08.6	fully understand the bruising nature of cowboy politics.
1:12.1	Yeah well Montana is an interesting state so I've been around
1:15.2	politics for a little bit now I had a couple sessions in the Montana House of Representatives
1:19.2	prior to this job and I was an elected county attorney which is our version of
1:24.0	district attorney. We have county attorneys in Montana so you know historically
1:29.3	Montana has been a very purple state a very populist very, a lot of split ticket voting, even just 10
1:37.5	years ago when I was in the state legislature, you know we had Republican
1:40.2	majorities in the House, Republican majorities in the state Senate, but then a Democrat governor, two Democrat governors actually.
1:48.0	And that literally means that Montana's were splitting ticket as they're voting their general ballot.
1:54.0	So, and that's, we've had a long track record of that.
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