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This guy is running to oppose the very troubled and concerned Susan Collins. Hopefully, he will win the Dem primary.
Watch his 2 minute campaign video. It needs to be replicated by all Dems running for Congress.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has long been able to defy political gravity, winning re-election in a solidly blue state even as Republicans lose nationwide — thanks to her long relationships with locals in the state and her tendency to oppose some of President Donald Trump's worst excesses. But she...
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Maine isn’t far removed from a right-wing, Trumplican two-term Republican Governor.
Maine last elected a Democrat to the US Senate in 1988. There is no George Mitchell or Edmund Muskie running in the 2026 Democratic primary for US Senate.
Collins was deemed vulnerable in 2019-20 because of her support for Trumplican judicial candidates and the likelihood that SCOTUS would overturn Roe.
The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee - read that as Chuck Schumer) “cleared the field” for a “pleasantly attractive,” youngish, college-educated, white woman (it’s Maine) named Sarah Gideon. Truly someone you barely want running the PTA. Maybe the bake sale committee. Mayb. Gideon had a huge war chest. $75+ million. A huge amount ($15 million) went unspent…..there was nowhere to spend it. It’s Maine.
Collins won. Again.
I wouldn’t write her epitaph today.
Graham Platner looks like an interesting candidate.
His biggest problem is that the DSCC wants Maine’s Governor, Janet Mills (77 years-old) to run. The DSCC is recruiting her hard.
Then you have Jordan Wood. Native-born (the working class town of Lewiston, half of L-A, Lewiston-Auburn). He’s definitely a Mainer (which Platner and Mills are). He’s been a political activist since college. He was Katie Porter’s Chief of Staff in DC. He’s raised $1.6 million and has $800k on-hand. He’s gay. That’s not a plus in Maine.
