Tester Takes a Torpedo Below the Water Line spectator.org/tester-takes-a…
Ever wonder how @SenatorTester, a Beltway swamp creature who voted against the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and famously stays in lockstep with his fellow Democrats on immigration and gun control, keeps getting elected in a state like Montana?
The answer is simple: the Libertarian Party usually nominates a spoiler who siphons enough votes from Tester’s GOP challengers that he wins by the skin of his teeth.
This year was no different — until yesterday — when Libertarian Rick Breckenridge decided to endorse Republican Matt Rosendale. The Libertarian has been pulling enough support in the polls to enable Tester to slither back to the swamp again.
Why did Breckenridge throw his support to Rosendale? AP reports:
The Libertarian candidate in Montana’s U.S. Senate race threw his support behind his Republican opponent Wednesday in a surprise move that came in response to an election mailer from an unknown group that appeared aimed at undermining Rosendale’s support among conservatives.
A similar tactic was used in Tester’s last reelection bid, according to the AP story, and this kind of outside interference in Montana’s election process appears to have been just as offensive to the Libertarian candidate as it was to Rosendale himself:
Breckenridge said in an interview that he doesn’t know the source of the mailer, which promoted him as a “true conservative” and claimed that Rosendale supports using drones to spy on private citizens.…
He said it appeared to be an attempt by so-called dark money groups to influence Montana’s election.
