{"id":2307017,"date":"2024-07-23T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jon-tester-says-harris-nomination-isnt-done-deal-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T22:04:49","slug":"jon-tester-says-harris-nomination-isnt-done-deal-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jon-tester-says-harris-nomination-isnt-done-deal-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Tester says Harris nomination isn\u2019t \u2018done deal\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjon-tester-says-harris-nomination-isnt-done-deal-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2307017&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In this article, vulnerable Senate Democrat Jon Tester \u2063expressed doubts \u2062about \u200bVice President Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic \u2062Party&#8217;s nominee. Tester, \u2064who is\u200d facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wharton-study-build-back-better-will-not-be-free-net-cost-2-42-trillion\/\" title=\"Wharton Study: Build Back Better Will Not Be Free; Net Cost .42 Trillion\">tough reelection race<\/a>, has not yet endorsed Harris unlike \u2064other Senate Democrats in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-old-campaign-manager-calls-dems-bedwetters-warns-trump-could-absolutely-win\/\" title=\"Obama&#039;s ex-campaign manager labels Dems &#039;nervous,&#039; cautions Trump&#039;s potential victory.\">similar\u200c situations<\/a>. Despite Harris having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campaign-2024-an-early-look-at-the-possible-republican-contenders\/\" title=\"Campaign 2024: An Early Look At The Possible Republican Contenders\">significant support<\/a> among Democratic National \u200dCommittee delegates, Tester\u2064 remains hesitant about her future\u200d in politics.\u200b Tester\u2064 emphasized the importance of allowing the\u2062 process to unfold before making any decisions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Vulnerable Senate Democrat Jon Tester says Harris nomination isn&rsquo;t &lsquo;done deal&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1711181\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3090238\/jon-tester-calls-for-biden-withdraw-top-democratic-ticket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jon Tester\">Jon Tester<\/a> (D-MT), one of several Senate Democrats in a &ldquo;toss-up&rdquo; reelection race, suggested Tuesday that Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3095378\/kamala-harris-reprises-attorney-general-role-trump-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> may not become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Democratic&nbsp;<\/span>Party&rsquo;s nominee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re in the middle of a process,&rdquo; Tester told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s a done deal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tester is one of only a handful of Democratic senators yet to endorse Harris and the only one among those considered vulnerable this election cycle. <\/p>\n<p>His stance stands in stark contrast with other Senate Democrats in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-trump-impeachment-republican-adam-kinzinger-announces-retirement\/\" title=\"Anti-Trump Impeachment Republican Adam Kinzinger Announces Retirement\">tough reelections<\/a>, including Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), who on Tuesday appeared with Harris at a Wisconsin campaign rally after previously skipping those held by President Joe Biden in her home state.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has locked up support among the majority of Democratic National Committee delegates, all but securing her fate as the presumptive nominee for next month&rsquo;s party convention.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Tester questioned what lay ahead for Harris&rsquo; political future.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll let the process work out, then we&rsquo;ll figure it out,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The process needs to work its way through.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) walks to a vote on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In criticizing Tester for keeping Harris at arm&rsquo;s length, Senate Republicans have noted that when he led the campaign arm of Senate Democrats, he encouraged Harris in 2015 to run for the California Senate seat she held prior to becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a>. The campaign arm of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3094894\/senate-republicans-kamala-harris-san-francisco-radical-memo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Senate GOP is advising candidates\">Senate GOP is advising candidates<\/a> to cast Harris as &ldquo;weird&rdquo; and a &ldquo;San Francisco radical.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Candidates should not be shy about aggressively tying their opponents to Kamala Harris&rsquo; extreme agenda,&rdquo; Jason Thielman, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in a campaign strategy memo.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tester&rsquo;s Republican challenger is former Navy SEAL, Tim Sheehy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll see who runs,&rdquo; Tester said when asked what other possible Democratic presidential candidates he favored. <\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1711181\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1711181\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, vulnerable Senate Democrat Jon Tester \u2063expressed doubts \u2062about \u200bVice President Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic \u2062Party&#8217;s nominee. Tester, \u2064who is\u200d facing a tough reelection race, has not yet endorsed Harris unlike \u2064other Senate Democrats in similar\u200c situations. Despite Harris having significant support among Democratic National \u200dCommittee delegates, Tester\u2064 remains hesitant about her &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2307018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tester-questions-harris-as-nominee.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32923,35935,32875,32515,32076],"class_list":["post-2307017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democratic-party","tag-harris-nomination","tag-jon-tester","tag-us-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tester-questions-harris-as-nominee.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}