Can Chuck just retire, please? That is precisely the way to get Trump to keep RFKJ.
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Amen!I’ve been at a loss for anything novel to write about Graham Platner, the buzzy oysterman who’s running for the Democratic Senate nomination in Maine.
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Watching throngs of Mainers heckle and boo Collins, though, and reflecting on her plummeting approval polls, I realized there is a point worth making: Chuck Schumer should accept defeat here. He should stop trying to recruit Janet Mills, the state’s 77-year-old governor, or anyone else to run against Platner. He should definitely not try to recruit Jared Golden—the Maine House Democrat who wants to write the filibuster into the Constitution. He should give up on his dream of recruiting some more seasoned politician of the kind Collins has defeated every six years for a bajillion cycles in a row, and give everyone in the Democratic coalition a fair and unspoiled test of left-populist appeal.
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If Schumer were to clear the field for Platner—or, simply abandon his effort to run Platner off—it would spare Democrats another recriminatory cycle of factional infighting and give everyone a bit more clarity on where to go from here.
He can beat Susan Collins. Let him cook.
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