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Can Montana’s ‘last rural Democrat’ survive another election?

  • Written by Lee Banville, Professor and Director of the School of Journalism, University of Montana
Can Montana’s ‘last rural Democrat’ survive another election?U.S. Sen. Jon Tester speaks to union members at a Labor Day campaign stop on Sept. 2, 2024, in Billings, Mont. William Campbell/Getty Images

Jon Tester has never had it easy.

The three-term Democratic senator from Montana has scored more than 50% of the vote only once in his three runs for the U.S. Senate, attracting 50.3% of the vote in 2018 against...

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