2024’s sprawling Senate map comes down to these 3 Dems
Sens. Joe Manchin, Sherrod Brown and Jon Tester say they're not concerned about a President Joe Biden on the ticket in their solid-red states.
By Burgess Everett
02/22/2023 04:29 PM EST
Sherrod Brown says he’s “fine” running for reelection with Joe Biden on the ballot in Ohio. Joe Manchin predicts Biden will “get beat so bad” in West Virginia that he’d have to run separately anyway.
And Jon Tester was distinguishing himself from the president even before the Montana Democrat announced Wednesday that he’s seeking a fourth term in his ruby-red state.
“This election is hopefully going to be about me. They’re going to try to make it about somebody else that’s not me,” Tester said in a recent interview as he pointed out his Senate workwear, capped by a clashing Montana tie pin. “It’s hard to make me into a banker or anybody. Even when I look like this — who the bleep puts that kind of a tie tack on their tie?”
Brown, Manchin and Tester all survived their party’s difficult 2018 cycle after then-President Donald Trump pushed their states further rightward. Before that, they won reelection in 2012 while sharing the ballot with then-President Barack Obama. Now, the trio of Democrats is staring down their toughest political challenge yet: pulling a Susan Collins.
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