Jon Tester is down 2 points in Montana--we NEED him to keep control of the senate

FUCK this. I don't come to DL to get hit up for political donations...FF...

Well, R1, I don't come to the DL to read Condoleezza Rice erotic fanfiction, but it can't be everything for everyone all the time.

I'm pretty sure you aren't allowed to raise or ask for money on DL. For ANY cause or ANY political reason. But we shall see.

R3 Uh oh. Mea culpa if so. Please don't red tag me, Muriel! I just wanted to help any way I could.

I donated. I wish him luck.

[quote]Well, [R1], I don't come to the DL to read Condoleezza Rice erotic fanfiction, but it can't be everything for everyone all the time.

Instead of feeding your unhealthy obsession with politics, why don't you participate in the cultural threads?

I’m not sure if he can pull it up off. We need him to win and I’m tired of our lives hanging in the balance over one or two races.

I believe Tester will WIN at the end!! It's August 13, plenty of time!!

I really wish Harris would send Walz there for an afternoon to rally with him. He just doesn't have enough support/resources out there. Walz would connect with Montanans more than than Harris could.

I concur with R9 and hope he wins, even if he does look like James Corden

R10 He IS unfortunate looking, but we must be willing to overlook that! Could we maybe get Kinzinger or Ossof up there to wrangle the gay cowboy vote?

r4/OP - Not to worry, r1 is a big ol' troll. Check her other posts.

Done. If you're gonna donate anywhere, give those Seats we need to win or maintain or any Swing-state candidates.

Thank you, R5 and R13! 🤠

I'm so exhausted, wishin' and a-hopin'. Why are we always just one vote away from disaster? The Democrats cannot go on like this.

[quote] Why are we always just one vote away from disaster? The Democrats cannot go on like this.

R15, both sides see the other as an existential threat and both sides believe they’re right about it and the other wrong, so most of the country is in the same boat with the feeling you describe.

How very bothsides, r16.

I contributed $50, OP.

R18 🙏💃

Now is the time to panic.

Maybe it’s just a bump after that anemic rally.

Tester is a lost cause. He's like the first space shuttle on the asteroid in Armageddon. I am voting for Kamala but voting Republican on the Senate side. I don't feel comfortable with Kamala having the House and Senate. She is too liberal. Picking Walz was too much for me. Maybe I will change my mind but I don't think so.

I don't believe the poll numbers, it's probably a rethug-leaning poll.

Anything on Twitter X is a "rethuglican are good pollsters"

[quote] I'm pretty sure you aren't allowed to raise or ask for money on DL. For ANY cause or ANY political reason. But we shall see.

That’s never been a thing.

[quote]Gays: once again I am asking you to open your pocketbooks and donate to ActBlue to help a libber out. GOP PACs have been flooding millions into Sheehy's campaign and Tester can't compete.

Who would want to respond well to an asshole posting any thing so stupid as "Gays: once again," no matter what the cause.

It's rude, and a full statement after a colon, whether the preceding text is intended to be a salutation or part of a sentence.

Oh, dear;

He's down by more than that. Aside from asking for money he's pretty much given up. He's just really campaigning for a cabinet position should Kamala win.

R25 OP was clearly making a Bernie Sanders fundraising joke, prisspot.

R27, r25 is a troll spewing venom all over the DL at the moment.

[quote] I am voting for Kamala but voting Republican on the Senate side.

Anyone who does this is completely out of their minds. The senate confirms scotus nominees.

R22, that doesn’t make any sense. Why vote a President and then not support them legislatively or their judicial appointments.

It’s like you don’t understand how government works.

LoL, r22, try some finesse and stealth with your trolling. As it is, you just come off as retarded.

R23 Believe the poll numbers, Montana is a red state and Jon Tester has been like the only Democrat there to hold office and win repeatedly as a Democrat.

I think Kamala and Walz being on the ticket is going to help him pass the finish line with a small lead, we just need the turnout.

[quote] I think Kamala and Walz being on the ticket is going to help him pass the finish line with a small lead, we just need the turnout.

And a magic wand, right?

[quote] I don't feel comfortable with Kamala having the House and Senate.

Well, that has certainly happened before when the country elected a president of one party and a Congress controlled by the other party, in order for them to check each other.

[Quote] And a magic wand, right?

Did Trump need one to win in 2016, simpleton Defacto? He was down in the polls too.

R35, the context is the senate race in Montana.

Stop it Defacto at r34, you’re not fooling anyone with your “checks and balances.”

You just know Trumps campaign is a dumpster fire so you’ve turned to trolling the downstream vote ….

Thank you captain Obviousfacto at r36.

I donated because he is trailing. We need this win.

He's down about the and he himself has all but given up.

He's fine, he sends his love and his victory in November.

Thanks.

HI LIZ!

I think he will pull it off in the end. I'm still optimistic about Florida, Missouri and Texas. I just read that Nebraska might be in play, too. Maybe I'm overly optimistic but I think it's going to be good year for us.

LOL sure R43. I can't wait to see this place after Kamala loses.

R43, FL is not in play — DeSantis is sending police to the homes of petition signers on the abortion vote. Straight up police intimidation. You think someone like that is going to allow a blue win?

I can't wait to see Mar a Largo when Trump loses.

Of course we all know who won't be there. Melania will be partying like it's 1999 in New York City.

Please. If you're honest with yourselves you know it she's losing.

Her victory is actually kind of inevitable. I mean I know we're not supposed to be complacent and stay worried and yadda, yadda, yadda, but really, the whole stale act that is Trump is clearly on its way off the stage.

The fat gay one from Modern Family is in politics now?

There's going to be a backlash to that, r45. People are fed up with this shit. And Scott and DeSantis are getting more unpopular by the day.

Wrong r47, and who the fuck are you to make this fucking declaration? What it will be is a *tight* race. It’s going to get tighter and tighter the closer we get. Add in cheating, voter suppression, gerrymandering, refusal to certify, SCOTUS, the billionaire class, Russia, the media, the Electoral College, and fucking TRAITORS in Congress, SM, and Elon Musk and all the influencer TRAITORS, combined with a tight race, anything can and will happen. It’s why I love politics.

Sheehy is probably going to win in Montana, which is no surprise at all. However, it's surprising that Casey and McCormick are tied in Pennsylvania. That would be something if Casey loses. Brown in Ohio could still lose with only 46% currently and only 2% more than Moreno.

It will be tight in the popular vote but Trump will stomp the cock gobbler in the Electoral College.

R53 eats its own poo

Trump will be busy stomping his own dick and wondering what day it is by the time we get to November.

On the other hand, Dick Stomping Trump will be a great NFT.

Meanwhile, JD Vance will be explaining that when he said school shooters really are Nature's Noblemen, he meant that as free spirits they represent the best that America has to offer, so much more than lesbians with cats.

LOL

JD Vance: “I don’t like this,” Vance said. “I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets and we have got to bolster security at our schools.”

But you knew that didn't you? You can't make a case for your candidate without distortions and lies. That's who you are and who she is.

The most recent poll shows he down six. Not a good place for a longtime incumbent. Maybe we have a better chance of holding the Senate by flipping Florida.

The case will be clearly made on Tuesday when Kamala walks on that debate stage on Tuesday and asks "America, are you fucking with me? Are you seriously thinking of voting for this orange tub of shit over there? Don't even, bitches, cause I'm not here to play, and I'm not here to pretend that this is the shit you want as president."

Case closed, mic dropped, and that's all she wrote.

You mean she's not going to finally detail her policy plans? What a shocker.

Unlike Trump, who will carefully lay out that his child care policy is like there'll be all this money from tariffs so um it'll all be great and don't we really need childcare in this country cause children are like the future and shit and meanwhile there'll be lots of tariffs and we'll all be rich somehow cause magic money and anyway, where the fuck am I and who are all you people?

Kamala will lay out all of Trump's plans too. She's stealing them all.

Trump's plans. Yeah, um, Trump's plans. That's some mystery sauce there. Trump's plan is to grift and lie and occasionally try to kill everyone in Congress. Other than that, his plans remain a constant source of wonder and entertainment throughout the land.

Maybe she won't make the debate. That may be the night she soaks her collard greens in the bathtub. You did hear that one didn't you? Maybe they won't let her bus in any supporters? You heard that one didn't you? Maybe she'll pretend she's on the phone while headphones are in her ears? So she doesn't have to take questions. Dumb bitch.

R62 is wounded

If Trump does show up for the debate, he'll spend half of it whining that Joe Biden dropped out and totally threw his whole gameplan, and this totally sucks, and everything is so unfair to Trump, and why can't everything happen the way Trump wants everything to happen dammit.

And Kamala will spend her time laughing at his sorry ass.

It will be glorious.

And after that R59, hopefully she’ll do a cooking demonstration. “Now, let’s make some good use of our time up here, okay?”

Also, not sure if it’s been covered here but the Republican candidate in this Senate race, Tim Sheehy, has been caught on tape making racist remarks about Native Americans and has been rebuke by leaders of the Crow Tribe and Reservation.

It’s a tight race without a lot of voters in Montana, which might make a difference.

The latest poll has Sheehy up 6 points, 51-45. Against an incumbent, that does not qualify as a “tight” race.

Yeah but in Montana that’s like a 10 vote difference.

You want another couple years of Congress voting to rename post offices after dead notables? as their main accomplishment? Also, it has to be a majority so we don’t get egotistical spoilers like Manchin and Sinema.

Also Vance’s “schools need more security” bs. Didn’t help in Texas or Florida. That’s the LAST line of defense. First line is the stop this fetishization of guns. You wanna get your rocks off for the 2nd amendment, join the National Guard.

It's looking dire for Tester.

[quote] The most straightforward scenario for Democrats to maintain control of the Senate is to hold all of its seats, excluding West Virginia, and win the presidency to earn the tiebreak in a 50–50 chamber. Most Senate Democratic candidates in competitive races are doing quite well, running consistently a few points better than Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden before her. The biggest concern, though, has always been Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, a state that Trump won by 16 percentage points in 2020 and will comfortably win again. Tester has regularly polled behind Republican candidate Tim Sheehy in the race, and he got another poor result in a high-quality survey commissioned by the AARP this week. The poll showed Sheehy leading Tester by 8 points, 49 to 41, with third-party candidates included, and by 6 points, 51 to 45, in a head-to-head. The poll was enough for one forecaster, Sabato’s Crystal Ball, to move the race from “toss-up” to “leans Republican.” It’s hard to argue with that, and Tester’s dire condition puts Democrats deep in the hole. Unless Tester pulls a Susan Collins and wildly overperforms his polling, Democrats would need a stroke of luck in “reach” Senate battlegrounds like Florida or Texas to make up for the loss. Oh, and Democrats would still need to successfully defend in all of their other competitive races in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and freakin’ Ohio. Sounds hard.

Jon Tester has a gay son named Shon.

I think Montana will become tighter the closer we get to Election Day, and in our favor. Pour money there too if you can, volunteer with phone banks/postcards if you can. We need white straight gun-owning men to do this work of flipping votes. They need to keep hearing from their own people. We also need to turn the mockery up even higher. Keep up with emasculating Trump and JD because the male cowboy ego does not want to be associated with weird pussies trying to play tough guys. If we continue to pound them from all flanks, we could just barely slide Tester over the finish line in time — we NEED this fucking seat. Where are the Dems on this? What resources are they giving him??? Walz can only be in 7 fucking states per day, we need more than just Tim for places like Montana if we want to win!

I just donated.

Thank you r75!