elif condition not working properly for string matching in python

I am developing a webscraping code, while doing so i am trying to modify the code as to extract specific element if the website link has a string from the predefined list of strings. I am trying to do this with the help of if elif condition.

the context is something similar to this:

list1 = ["apple","bat"]
list2 = ["cat", "mat"]

tester = ["www.cat.com","www.website.com","www.apple.com"]
for a in tester:
    print(a)
    if (item1 in a for item1 in list1):
        print("apple is present")
    elif ("john" in a):
        print("failed")
    elif (item2 in a for item2 in list2):
        print("cat is present")

but the problem is the match is not happening properly, the loop is giving the output of the first condition , not going to the second check condition. any suggestion as on how to overcome this behavior ?

Output i got is:

apple is present
apple is present
apple is present