Snapshot · The Bulwark Podcast
A poll shows DSA-backed Graham Plattner trailing Susan Collins by 3 points in the Maine Senate race, testing whether primary energy can translate to a general election win.
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Miller asks Kasky to go deeper on his travels with progressive Senate candidates Graham Plattner in Maine and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. Kasky's Maine dispatch is vivid: he arrived the day after a major New York Times scandal story dropped on Plattner, without his anxiety medication, expecting chaos. Instead he found hundreds of Mainers in an upbeat mood. The explanation, a local offered: in a state with one or two degrees of separation between everyone, the 'revelations' were things people already knew. In Michigan, El-Sayed's campaign has evolved from combative messaging to something more aspirational — a crescendo of positivity that Kasky finds interesting to observe. Miller notes Plattner is down 3 points to Susan Collins in polling and invokes his own Tea Party experience: the trick is channeling primary-base energy outward toward Collins, not inward toward ideological purity fights.
Cameron Kasky was in Maine without his anxiety medication the day after a major New York Times scandal story dropped on Graham Plattner. He expected chaos. Instead, the energy was overwhelmingly positive — because in Maine, where everyone knows everyone, the 'revelations' were already known. A poll shows Plattner down just 3 to Collins.
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