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AMID THE congratulatory messages for Kamala Harris, there has been one notable absence. Jon Tester, the longtime Democratic senator from Montana running for re-election, has declined to endorse his party’s standard-bearer. Currently down by an average of one point in the polls against his Republican opponent Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, Mr Tester told local newspapers that he did not want to nationalise his race. “This isn’t about national politics, this is about Montana,” he declared.
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