To hold the Senate, Democrats have to do something extraordinary
They must pull off the biggest reversal of electoral disadvantage since 1978
AMID THE congratulatory messages for Kamala Harris, there has been one notable absence. Jon Tester, the longtime Democratic senator from Montana running for re-election, has declined to endorse his party’s standard-bearer. Currently down by an average of one point in the polls against his Republican opponent Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, Mr Tester told local newspapers that he did not want to nationalise his race. “This isn’t about national politics, this is about Montana,” he declared.
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