MT-SEN: Tester crisscrossing the state talking about reproductive rights, military support and public lands

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is heading back to the future, so to speak.

The three-term incumbent senator from Montana isn’t running like a veteran politician, and that’s because he can’t. It’s been months since a poll has shown him leading or even tied up with political novice Republican Tim Sheehy. And Tester remains the last statewide Democrat in a state that was once known for its mix of political party power, but has grown more and more conservative recently.

Tester has felt this feeling before, though, he said. He spoke with the Daily Montanan on Sunday and said it feels a lot like 2006 when Tester, himself the challenger to longtime Republican U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns, beat the sitting incumbent by just fewer than 4,000 votes with more than 400,000 cast.

“It’s the ground game,” Tester said. “It’s the energy.”



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