Posted on 03/09/2025 6:32:16 AM PDT by Libloather
Former U.S. Senator Jon Tester, D-Mont., linked his 2024 Senate loss to ex-Vice President Kamala Harris’ poor performance in the state.
Tester, who lost to former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy in that race, declared on HBO’s "Real Time with Bill Maher" that the woke politics embraced by the top of the ticket are what doomed his performance in Montana.
"And the top of the ticket did not perform because I don’t think the top of the ticket embraced the issues that Americans were talking about," he said. "We got wrapped up in all the cancel culture crap."
Tester had served three terms as the Democratic U.S. Senator in Montana, which has consistently voted for the Republican presidential candidate for decades.
The ex-senator has taken a more moderate stance on issues during his time in the Senate, openly breaking with the Biden-Harris administration on several issues throughout the years. The Democrat also withheld an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris after she became the party's nominee.
Both Maher and Tester agreed on the need for the Democratic Party to abandon its far-left leanings and "court the center" as the best way to rebuild and present an alternative to the GOP under Trump.
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We got wrapped up in all the cancel culture crap.”
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Your party got wrapped up in a lot more than that, moron.
Which he would still be "wrapped up in" had he won.
He’s in the wrong state.
He is probably in the right state.
He's appealing to the out of state liberals who have come in to Montana as they came into to Colorado.
He is attempting to curry favor with that crowd by dressing up like a cowboy and talking like a cowboy but voting like a cowgirl.
Can you code with only 7 fingers?
Make me a sammich, Jon.
Gee John. Ya think so? LOL. The reality is that Tester always was in danger of being picked off even before Harris but he managed to slip by.
Tester is a A-Hole and lied his backside off to get into the Senate.
It’s NOT because of Harris we have Two R Senators and two R Reps - it’s because the D candidates were so poor (thankfully!)
He’s been very lucky for 18 years. Blame Bush in ‘06. Just like Kamala in’24.
2012-he had incumbency and Mittens. 2018-midterms are bad for those in the WH.
In 2012 he won by 19k votes and the libertarian got 31k.
And the wrong country.
Hey Jon, blame it on everybody but yourself. Tester voted lockstep with the RATS his entire time in the senate. He buried himself.
If the dems can’t blame a republicans for something, they will find someone else even if it’s another dem. They will never admit they were to blame for anything. Pathological liars.
Tim Sheehy had national appeal that is why Jon lost. Tim Sheehy had a superior campaign and candidate.
When Tim Walz showed up the democrats died.
More likely, the good people in Montana came to their senses.
Note the claim on such a link. This is a central reason why so many politicos were against investigating the obvious corruption in 2020 — once in Congress/etc don’t rock the boat with anything approaching truth.
It’s always someone else’s fault.
Tester didn’t “lose” to Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, Sheehy beat his ass.
DemonRATS with their permanent “core values” make it impossible for the party to move towards the center. It’s like putting lipstick on a pig.
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