One of the most vulnerable Democratic senators up for reelection in 2024 has said he is unsure if he will run for a fourth term in the upper chamber.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) said he will use the holidays to have a “discussion” with his family about a reelection bid when speaking with Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.
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“If I decide to run in this thing, and it’ll be a discussion that I have with my family over the holidays because it is a big undertaking, I feel good about my chances,” Tester said.
EXCLUSIVE: @SenatorTester (D-Mont.) hasn’t made a decision about running for re-election in 2024.
“It’ll be a discussion that I’ll have with my family over the holidays,” he tells @chucktodd. pic.twitter.com/6nMslV71FF
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) December 11, 2022
Tester is facing new questions about whether he will run after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) announced she was leaving the Democratic Party. Sinema, who is up for reelection in 2024, has not said if she will run for a second term.
The Treasure State senator also said that if he runs for another term, he will remind voters of his accomplishments of “working for small businesses and working families and family farm agriculture.”
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Former President Donald Trump won the state in the 2020 presidential election by 16 percentage points, and Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) defeated popular Gov. Steve Bullock (D-MT) by 10 percentage points for reelection that same year.
Democrats won an outright majority in the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections, with 48 Democrats and three independents who caucus with the Democratic Party, but they face a tough Senate map in 2024. Democratic caucus members will be on defense for 23 of the 34 seats up for election.
