Maine Gov. Janet Mills Drops Out of Senate Democratic Primary
That means the final race will likely come down to problematic Democrat Graham Platner and incumbent Republican Susan Collins.
Welp.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the Senate Democratic primary due to a lack of campaign funds.
“Over the past six months, I have had the privilege of campaigning across Maine and doing what I love most: meeting with Maine people. I am grateful beyond words for the outpouring of love and support I have received from folks in every corner of the state, from Madawaska to Kittery, from Rangeley to Eastport,” Mills wrote in a statement. “I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources. That is why today I have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the United States Senate. I step back from campaigning with unending love, admiration, and hope for Maine people — a people whose hearts are filled with love and whose integrity and humility is surpassed only by their kindness, generosity, and compassion.”
That means the final race will likely come down to problematic Democrat Graham Platner and incumbent Republican Susan Collins.
For some reason, Platner has remained on top in the Democrat field despite past comments and a Nazi tattoo.
Platner has support from socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
Democratic leadership and left-leaning groups threw their weight behind Mills.
However, now that Mills dropped out, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced they would support Platner.
Polls have shown a possible tight race between Platner nd Collins, with Platner coming out on top.
The Maine Republican Party responded:
“The choice Mainers face in November is simple,” said Jim Deyermond, Chairman of the Maine GOP. “Option 1, Susan Collins, who represents all Mainers and cares deeply for our state. Senator Collins uses her position on the Appropriations Committee to secure funding for Maine’s fire stations, bridges, rural hospitals, and more.
“Option 2, the racist, nazi-sympathizing, fake blue-collar Graham Platner, who is more concerned about promoting his dangerous ideologies than serving the hardworking people of Maine. Mainers can’t afford to send a radical, out-of-control extremist like Platner to D.C., but that’s exactly whom Maine Democrats have on their slate this election.”
The Republican National Committee propped up Collins.
“In November Susan Collins, a proven leader with an indisputable record of delivering for Maine, will face a Nazi sympathizing self-proclaimed communist with a record of hate-mongering and dishonesty,” RNC spokesperson Kristen Cianci responded to the news. “It’s safe to say we are confident going into Election Day.”
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Who???
Isn’t she the woman Trump said her career in politics wasn’t going to last long.
Haha
I am a lonely visitor
I came too late to cause a stir
Though I campaigned all my life towards that goal
I hardly slept the night you wept
Our secret safe and still well kept
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul…
Rs better make sure they have presence at all of the following:
1 – pre-election positions in every county and municipality, EVERY ONE of them, in the state
2 – Rs at every early voting location
3 – Rs at every ED voting location
4 – Rs stationed where mail-in ballots are accepted and validated
Presence matters. Most Ds cannot handle questions and pushback. BE everywhere; take notes; document with photos if possible.
Good advice and to be clear that comes down to local voters being motivated enough to spend the time, effort away from their ordinary day to day routines, to sacrifice their own priorities to do those very necessary things. Far too often folks just wanna outsource all unpleasant, effort driven the ‘roll up your sleeves’ pain in the butt tasks to someone/anyone else then whine about poor results after the fact. ‘oh the GoPe didn’t do X, Y, Z’ conveniently glossing over their own lack of willingness to make any effort beyond casting a ballot. Yes Party organization IS important. Yes creating a ground game of volunteers is necessary… but without willing volunteers no amount of outreach/pleading by the Party to build a grassroots ground game is gonna succeed.
“For some reason, Platner has remained on top in the Democrat field despite past comments and a Nazi tattoo.”
The reason is quite simple: the electorate agree with him. Planter isn’t leading the race in spite of his views, he’s leading *because* of his views. This distinction gets lost quite often when we see politicians who hold abhorrent views getting themselves elected.
If you’ve never experienced the politics of southern Maine, you’d be shocked at how far left they are; it’s not hyperbole to say that they’re a lot closer to Joseph Stalin than they are to Barack Obama even.
Color me unsurprised.
Yep. The d/prog Party is full of radical leftists who are ascending to power/control over the Party. That a left of center more/less.doctrinaire lefty/lib sitting Gov can’t sufficiently fundraise to run a competitive campaign against nazi Platner pretty well.sums up the State of the d/prog as a political party. (Yes nazi are of the left. I don’t care about conventional framing and marketing/PR
campaigns of the left to recast National Socialist German Workers Party as a creation of the political ‘right’ using their institutional control of Academia/media to spin this yarn to increase their political power)
Nazi: National Socialist
Communist: International Socialist
Clinton: Socialist (so said two Canadian socialists)
Obama: Islamo-Marxist
I believe Obama is more of an Islamo-Maoist.
Got a catchy campaign song for the guy…. used only by close “friends”… Die Fahne Hoch. (in the movie “The Battle of Britain” there is just a snippet of the song as segue with full orchestration… sadly forever tarnished by its creators and their final solution).
Unfortunately, there no longer is a Southern Maine, only North Massachusetts.
The far leftists moved from Massachusetts to Maine years ago.
I remember when Maine New Hampshire and Connecticut were all red states.
Vermont as well.
as bad as she is/was to us here in Maine if planter gets in senate shits gonna be real bad here.
for governor the dem choice will be either shenne bellows (she who tried to take trump off ballot) or hannah pingree, chellie pingrees daughter.
we are f*cked here.
uses her position on the Appropriations Committee to secure funding for Maine
That sure does sound like it’s a grift, doesn’t it? Sure, that’s the job of a Senator or Representative in today’s world, but it still sounds like a bunch of greedy kids shoving their hands in the Halloween candy bowl. On top of which, why are taxpayers in the other 49 states (and several territories) funding Maine’s fire stations, et al?
Reduce the size and scope (particularly in spending) of the national gov’t, and you can hugely reduce all of that fraud and grift and waste.
BRYANT GUMBEL: “Isn’t the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to
bring something back for you?”
MARTIN GROSS: “No.”
GUMBEL (incredulously): “It ISN’T?”
It would be more productive to send someone to Washington so that Washington LEAVES MORE IN YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY. But that doesn’t work because then Washington can’t buy the results it wants using your money against you.
So, we either get the Nazi or collins, who would have voted for the Nazi if she wasn’t running.
Donks like Pritzker and Warren (and lots of others) spend their time conjuring up false claims that Trump is somehow a Nazi, all the while condoning a real live Nazi sympathizer on their ticket. Anything to advance their will to power.
its the vote counters that need the watching
TIME TO EMPLOYEE AI
programmed by a maga and an aoc and on ly 1 choice is allowed/recorded for the vote
even mail in ballots can be scanned in nano seconds for authenticity
COME ON MAGA
MAKE THATTTTT HAPPEN
I hope Collin’s’ vote against the S.A.V.E. Act does not cause her to lose this race.
There are times I wish she’d vote differently but she is better than any D who gets illegal funds and illegal votes.
BTW, how is the Act Blue process going?
Collins has certainly cornered the excitement factor!
Well then, politics comes down to practicality–back the RINO!
“The lesser of two weevils.”
Or the wrong lizard might get elected!
I wonder if collins will figure out being a rino isn’t going to help her.
Possums do the middle of the road like she does, she’ll also be flattened like the possums.
She’s already lasted a long time.
Being in Maine, I think Collins is going to lose this time.
Maine is the oldest state in the US (lots of Medicare) and the Dems imported more leeches (Medicaid). So our hospitals are a mess because the ratio of low reimbursement MediXXX people is too high compared to normal private insurance reimbursements.
So, she prioritized getting funding for the hospitals and not just throwing more money at MediXXX like the Dems want,
Her commercials show an old woman in business attire talking about helping hospitals . Platner’s commercial show a guy in flannel talking about helping the little guy and how Collins cut Medicare.
Which one do you think is resonating with a state that is highly political leftists in the south and the balance that doesn’t pay that much day to day attention to politics?
That makes one less (potentia) Nazi in the Senate for Fetterman to contend with.
wonder how much impact the damnable ranked choice voting we do up here will cause.
It will mean that whoever wins will have a majority of voters who prefer that person to any other viable candidate. Whether it goes for or against us, that’s what elections are supposed to be about.
It will mean that if one or more independent Democrat run, and attract votes from people who can’t bring themselves to vote for a Republican directly but still prefer Collins to a neonazi, they will put the independent/s first and Collins second-last, just before Platner, and so their votes will flow to Collins and help elect her.
I listen to a lot of local talk radio here in New England and a lot of people don’t understand how rank choice works.
So a lot of the time the candidate that should’ve won doesn’t get the vote.
It’s absolutely confusing to many people.
Anyone who doesn’t understand how to put a 1 next to your first choice, a 2 next to your second choice, etc, is too stupid to be allowed to vote. It’s really that simple.
Here are six names; whom do you want? OK, if you can’t have that person, who’s your next-best choice? What if you can’t have her either; out of the four remaining, whom do you want?
You can do the same thing when ordering from a restaurant menu. There are six main courses available, which one do you want? What if we’re out of that; what would you want then? Etc.
IMO ranked choice is an unnecessary complication….however I’d be open to using it IF a simple reform is made; assign the ranked choices points like the top 25 sports polls.
Example with a five candidate modified ranked choice election. Each voter still ‘ranked the candidates from 1-5 (or not their choice) but the top choice has five points assigned, the second choice four, down to fifth choice getting one point.
Just add up the points assigned by voters to each candidate. Most points wins. No second or successive rounds of selecting. Just simple, direct choice and arithmetic to determine the winner within a framework nearly every voter already is familiar with.
No. Just no. The Single Transferable Vote is really the only fair system. It’s the only system that guarantees that a majority of voters would rather have the winner than any other viable candidate. Even those who can’t have their first choice get at least their second or third or second-last choice rather than their last. A candidate whom a majority hate so much that they’d rather have anyone than that person can’t win.
They don’t like it because the left ALWAYS bundles RCV with jungle primaries (though in intelligent states, the bundle gets broken). It’s not the RCV that screws you, it’s the jungle primaries. RCV is actually a vast improvement over traditional voting. No more, “I want to vote for Ron Paul, but not if it means helping Clinton.:
RCV is the lollipop, jungle primaries are the razor blade inside.
With STV (or RCV or IRV or whatever you want to call it) you don’t hold a primary at all. The whole point of a STV election is to get one winner, not two.
Parties can hold internal selection processes if they like, to decide whom to endorse, or they can decide to let as many of their members run as want to. It’s their choice. But the voters get to decide whether they want to rank all of a party’s candidates in a clump, or whether there’s one whom they will rank much lower or much higher. It doesn’t matter, because in the end the voters’ preferences are expressed and a majority get their preferred choice among all those who are realistic.
According to ballotopedia there are 3 independent general election candidates for Senate in Maine. So ranked choice could affect the outcome.
Absoutely. But it will affect the outcome in the direction voters wanted, not in entirely the opposite direction, as traditional voting does now.
Heil Platner. How long until he burns down congress and ushers in the next Reich. Who will be his von Hindenburg. And here I thought he was more of a brownshirt than Der Fuhrer.
The Nazis (probably) didn’t burn the Reichstag. That was just communist propaganda. But they took full advantage of the fire.
I have ten bucks that says Platner will get the support of some prominent Jews – if that has not already happened.
There are a depressing number of Jews for whom political power is more important than life itself. They would happily march to the gas chambers and firing squads if they could stick it to the hated RethugiKKKan Christers.
You can see a similar process at work when blacks support the party of segregation and welfare state slavery, women who support abusers and rapists, and Asians who support those who call them white supremacists. Whatever they imagine they are getting out of the deal hardly seems worth it. They are virtue-signaling themselves to death.
Well Sanders supports him although I’d hardly call him a prominent Jew.
I have 100 bucks that says Upchuck will support him. Anything for the party right Schumer.
It will be interesting if Josh Shapiro climbs aboard the Platner train. I suspect he is under a lot of pressure to publicly support Platner to blunt the antisemitism charge. No enemies to the Left!
CT Senator Blumenthal said the nazi’s heart is in the right place but he has to clarify some of his statements, Make of that what you will.
They’re generally the ones who are viscerally convinced (deep in their kishkes) that all Christians and all Republicans are antisemites, and the ones who don’t seem like it are just pretending and will take the mask off when the fecal matter hits the air movement device.
Mills has all the charisma of a damp rag.
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