BACKSTORY: in interview Sen. Steve Daines says he closely worked with White House to coalesce behind Kurt Alme, avoid a primary and withdraw from race at last minute to block Democrats Tester, Bullock or Schweitzer from running. Alme didn’t even know White House was vetting him “Out of an abundance of caution, I wanted to try to make sure we didn’t have a very expensive Senate race with one of those three possibly in it,” Daines said Tester responds: “I don’t believe that, as none of us were running. He f–ked his own party”