NRSC claims credit for Schweitzer’s decision not to run

{mosads}”We had a big victory this weekend — one that every Republican should be proud of,” NRSC Chairman Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) says in an email to supporters sent Monday morning. “The reason Brian Schweitzer decided not to run? I believe that he
feared the information that we uncovered. That information, combined
with how unpopular the Democrat agenda of higher taxes, bankrupting
spending, and the ObamaCare train wreck is in Montana these days kept
the governor out.”

Schweitzer announced over the weekend that he wouldn’t run for retiring Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mont.) seat, dealing a major blow to Democratic hopes of winning the race in the GOP-leaning state and giving Republicans a more promising path to winning Senate control next fall.

The NRSC had warned for weeks that Schweitzer was a treasure trove for opposition researchers, and Schweitzer’s announcement that he wouldn’t run came a day before the Great Falls Tribune published a lengthy, hard-hitting report on Schweitzer’s ties to a dark-money group.