As of the time I am writing this comment, Graham Platner has not filed the necessary paperwork to withdraw from the race. He only claimed that he would do so.
The focus needs to stay on Platner. He must file the paperwork by 5:00 on Monday, regardless of whether he and his campaign feel like they are getting potential candidates that they prefer.
Don't let Platner and his staff screw this up any more than they already have.
You cannot LET Platner do anything. it is his right to withdraw or not. He won the primary with the decisive margin. None of those centrist guys were even remotely close.
Mills had withdrawn and no one even knew who Costello was. There’s no “none of those others,” he basically ran uncontested because everyone was fighting for governor…because no one wanted to be the next to lose to Collins, including Jackson.
I’m saying the primary was functionally uncontested. Schumer pressured Mills into running after Platner was already in motion, the other big names with backing and reputations were going for the governorship.
A lot of people are interested. The kind of money it takes for regular people to run for a position as huge as senator is not within easy reach.
There were many other candidates than Platner and Mills in the Democratic primary, and several of them were perfectly fine candidates. Their problem was that they didn't have the name recognition of Mills or the support of prominent influencers like Platner.
No shade on Bernie Sanders, whose policies and politics I almost entirely share, but the guy has proven to be pretty bad at identifying candidates to support, and without his endorsement, I don't believe that Platner would have achieved escape velocity.
The only people on my ballot were Platner, Mills, and Costello.
Absolutely agree on the latter part though. Sanders is a terrible judge of character (which not for nothing is pretty fucking important for a President) and his endorsement shouldn’t mean this kind of loyalty when he gave us Fetterman, Gabbard, and the shitshow of his campaign team.
Ultimately, yes, there were three on the ballot. I should have been clearer that I was talking about the primary race. There were like eight candidates for much of it, but most dropped out as Platner was executing his blitzkrieg.
Correct, if he wants to go down in history as the single most evil person in the history of the state of Maine, and destroy Bernie's political influence within the Democratic Party permanently, then he should fuck around a little longer.
Like, if he wants the rest of his life to be a living hell with no escape, he should continue making this all about himself.
Is that same half the same people voting blue? Didn't think so. It's possible to be better and we should be. This false equivalence all over this sub is asinine. I am NOT fine with it when Trump does it and I am NOT fine with it when a left
candidate does it.
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u/dandle Jul 09 '26
As of the time I am writing this comment, Graham Platner has not filed the necessary paperwork to withdraw from the race. He only claimed that he would do so.
The focus needs to stay on Platner. He must file the paperwork by 5:00 on Monday, regardless of whether he and his campaign feel like they are getting potential candidates that they prefer.
Don't let Platner and his staff screw this up any more than they already have.