After his failed Senate bid lasted just six days, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) said on Feb. 28 that he would run for re-election to the House. Now, Rosendale has reversed himself once again.
The conservative Republican announced on Friday that he was dropping out of the House race and retiring at the end of this Congress.
Rosendale cited “defamatory rumors” and a “death threat” against him as part of his reasoning for dropping out, saying they had taken a “serious toll on me, and my family.”
Rosendale seemed to be referencing rumors from former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), who alleged on a podcast that Rosendale dropped out of the Senate race, and was considering resigning from Congress, because he “impregnated a 20-year-old staff person.”
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