Dem Campaign Boss Dismisses Impact of Libertarians on Senate Races

Conceding that Montana’s Democrat Sen. Jon Tester was in a fight for his political life, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Gary Peters, D-Mich., nevertheless disagreed with the theory the Libertarian will draw enough votes from Republican Tim Sheehy to ensure the embattled incumbent’s re-election.

“It’s sometimes difficult to know that, because some folks who are voting Libertarian are voting libertarian — that’s what they believe,” Peters told Newsmax at a Washington, D.C., breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

Peters added that libertarian-minded voters “may, if there is not a Libertarian [nominee] on the ballot, just skip that line as well and not support either [major party] candidate.”

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