Senate Democrats’ Secret Weapon? Donald Trump
Montana Sen. Jon Tester, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, says having Trump at the top of the ticket is putting even such senior Republicans as Arizona’s John McCain and Iowa’s Chuck Grassley at risk of losing their seats. He derided as doomed efforts by some GOP contenders to keep their distance from the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
“Donald Trump for the last year-plus has said things and done things that have been totally inappropriate, and he’s gotten away with it, yet the folks here in the Senate have endorsed him almost en bloc,” Tester told Capital Download on Thursday. “I just think when you do that kind of stuff, knowing full well what you’ve got, it speaks to who you are as a candidate.”