Jon Tester Surrenders: Montana Democrat Says It’s More Important for Kamala Harris to Win than for H

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Jon Tester Surrenders: Montana Democrat Says It’s More Important for Kamala Harris to Win than for Him to Be Reelected

Sean Moran 22 Aug 2024

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) said Wednesday that electing Kamala Harris as president is more important than his own releection as Montana’s senior senator.

“Mine isn’t the important one; it’s the one at the top. There’s a lot at stake here. There’s democracy at stake, there’s rural America at stake, there’s how we treat one another at stake. There’s a lot at stake,” the Montana Democrat said during a rally in Missoula.
“There’s a lot of things going on in this world. You’ve got to have leadership that knows how to bring people together so that people can work together to find solutions. That doesn’t mean you compromise your values, that doesn’t mean you do stupid (stuff). That means you bring people together, to get people on the same page to solve problems,” Tester continued.

Tester is credited with recruiting Kamala Harris to run for Senate in 2015 and has referred to the California Democrat as a “friend.”

Fox News reported:

    Tester’s relationship with Harris goes back many years and the Montana senator was reportedly directly involved in recruiting Harris to the Senate in 2015 when he was chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).

    “It gets me in on leadership meetings and allows me to influence where the party is going, what the party’s going to do … to focus on things that are important,” Tester said about his role at DSCC in 2014.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/22/jon-tester-surrenders-montana-democrat-says-its-more-important-kamala-harris-win-than-it-is-him-be-reelected/

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Sheehy seems to be hovering at or breaking 50% there:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/montana/sheehy-vs-tester

Adieu, Mr. Tester.

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He will join the small but growing group of former redstate Dem party Senators begun by Joe Manchin.  Hopefully Sherrod Brown will join him as well.

Those two new Georgia Senators should be thankful neither is up for re-election.

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Those two new Georgia Senators should be thankful neither is up for re-election.

The two new Georgia Senators are thankful that the Republican Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State are corrupt as all get-out, and that they were willing to seat the two Dem Senators with untold election law violations just to keep the payoffs flowing.

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Backflip: Jon Tester Now Refuses to Back Kamala Harris

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) on Thursday refused to endorse Kamala Harris’s bid for president one day after saying it is more important to elect her than his own reelection as Montana’s senior senator.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/23/jon-tester-refuses-to-back-kamala-harris-after-saying-more-important-to-elect-her-than-for-him-to-be-reelected/

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"Backflip: Jon Tester Now Refuses to Back Kamala Harris"

His internal polls must be even worse than the public ones I linked to at realclearpolitics above...

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Backflip: Jon Tester Now Refuses to Back Kamala Harris

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) on Thursday refused to endorse Kamala Harris’s bid for president one day after saying it is more important to elect her than his own reelection as Montana’s senior senator.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/23/jon-tester-refuses-to-back-kamala-harris-after-saying-more-important-to-elect-her-than-for-him-to-be-reelected/

I guess it wasn't more important after all...

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I guess it wasn't more important after all...

RFK's announcement lessens the chances of Kamala so the Dems will try to preserve the Senate at all costs.

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RFK's announcement lessens the chances of Kamala so the Dems will try to preserve the Senate at all costs.

More proof

Chuck Schumer potentially eliminating the filibuster is the key to a radical agenda
Chuck Schumer is doing us a favor.

Often, parties try to obscure or deny their radical plans prior to an election, but the Senate majority leader is being more candid.

In a session with reporters at the Democratic National Convention, Schumer (D-NY) suggested that — should Democrats win the White House, Senate and House in November — he would seek to end the filibuster for purposes of passing voting rights and abortion legislation.

This would be an inflection point in American government.

There’s no nuking the legislative filibuster a little bit.

The end run around the Senate’s long-standing requirement for 60 votes to pass nonfiscal legislation might begin with voting rights and abortion, but it surely wouldn’t end there.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/21/opinion/chuck-schumer-potentially-eliminating-the-filibuster-is-the-key-to-a-radical-agenda/