Montana Democrat Senate nominee Alani Bankhead has accused the Democratic National Committee of trying to force her out of the race immediately after she won the primary.
Bankhead claims the DNC offered her a staff position in exchange for quitting and endorsing independent candidate Seth Bodnar.
During an appearance on Montana PBS last week, Bankhead was asked whether anyone had offered her anything of value to drop out.
She answered: YES.
Bankhead said the DNC’s person who handles female veteran candidates, or something similar, floated the job offer.
“I was like, ‘Why would I go work for an organization that is actively working against me and stabbing me in the back?’” Bankhead said. “I can’t be bought, anyway. But that was the only thing that was put on the table.”
In a Washington Post op-ed earlier this month, Bankhead wrote that the DNC began pressing her to leave right after her primary victory because party leaders believed a Democrat could not win in Montana.
