Jon Tester is running scared. He’s even running away from his own party.
Tester, seeking his fourth term in the U.S. Senate, is in a tight race with Republican Tim Sheehy in an increasingly Republican state.
Tester already has been running ads pointing out when he has disagreed with the Democratic Biden administration. Then last week he said at a news conference that he would not endorse a candidate for president.
He gave two reasons, according to the Billings Gazette, neither of which made sense. First, he said, he is focused on his own race. Second, he said, “Folks want to nationalize this race, and this isn’t about national politics, this is about Montana.”
You can hear that first reason just about every Sunday on the TV news talk shows — what Calvin Trillin called the “Sabbath gasbags.” It’s the answer politicians give when they don’t want to answer a question. They use it as a pivot to instead answer a question of their own invention.
But politicians, by the nature of their job, are supposed to read more
