The Hill
Republican Ryan Zinke, who served as the Interior Secretary during the Trump administration, is projected to win a seat in Congress.
The Associated Press called the race at 10:31 a.m. ET.
Zinke defeated Democrat Monica Tranel, an attorney, in the contest for Montana’s 1st Congressional District.
The representative-elect oversaw a number of efforts to increase energy development and roll back Obama-era environmental restrictions.
He left his post in 2018 amid multiple ethics investigations. The Interior Department’s internal watchdog released two reports this year saying that Zinke failed to abide by ethics rules and misled investigators,respectively. Those findings were referred to the Justice Department, which declined to prosecute him and Zinke has denied wrongdoing. ..
