The reporter who says Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte body-slammed him said Thursday: “I never touched or came close to Gianforte.”
Gianforte was charged overnight with misdemeanor assault after a confrontation with Ben Jacobs, a reporter for The Guardian who had asked him a question about health care.
The Gianforte campaign blamed Jacobs for “aggressive behavior.”
Jacobs told ABC’s “Good Morning America”: “It was a little bit sudden, but I went from being vertical one moment to being horizontal the next.”
Gianforte is the Republican running in a special election Thursday for the House seat vacated by Ryan Zinke, who was named President Trump’s interior secretary.