Ex-Senator Ties His Election Day Loss To Kamala’s Far-Left Campaign: ‘Cancel Culture Crap’

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While much of the national election coverage hinged on the outcome of the presidential race, a number of other candidates were impacted further down the ticket by the nation’s shifting political allegiances.

One notable example was former Sen. Jon Tester (D-MO), who lost his re-election bid to Republican challenger Tim Sheehy.

Last week, Tester appeared on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” where he issued a thinly veiled jab at failed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, as Yahoo reported:

“And the top of the ticket did not perform because I don’t think the top of the ticket embraced the issues that Americans were talking about,” he said. “We got wrapped up in all the cancel culture crap.”

Tester had served three terms as the Democratic U.S. Senator in Montana, which has consistently voted for the Republican presidential candidate for decades.

The ex-senator has taken a more moderate stance on issues during his time in the Senate, openly breaking with the Biden-Harris administration on several issues throughout the years. The Democrat also withheld an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris after she became the party’s nominee.

Both Maher and Tester agreed on the need for the Democratic Party to abandon its far-left leanings and “court the center” as the best way to rebuild and present an alternative to the GOP under Trump.

Of course, Harris’ embarrassing performance upon replacing Joe Biden at the top of the ticket has been chronicled extensively since Election Day:

Harris’ ill-fated running mate Tim Walz recently shared his take on the reason the ticket fared so poorly, per The Guardian:

Tim Walz has said that he and Kamala Harris were too “safe” during their 2024 election campaign, with the former vice-presidential candidate claiming they should have held more in-person events around the US.

“We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe,” Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said in an interview with Politico, as Democrats seek to learn the lessons of Donald Trump’s win in November, which has sent the party into the political wilderness.

Walz, who was widely seen as one of the Democratic party’s most effective messengers against Trump and Vance in 2024, becoming best-known for his frequent description of the pair as “weird”, also said he and Harris had been hampered by the shortened length of their campaign.

Harris effectively became the official Democratic party nominee on 5 August, just three months before the election, and Walz said that the abbreviated time frame limited the amount of risks the campaign was able to take.

Critics like Caitlyn Jenner, however, have provided a different diagnosis:



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