People of Maine decide, no one else.

I'm not sure the purpose of suggesting otherwise. You are one of the most reliable sources ever to grace this forum. Great respect, and thank you for all you do.

but take a more dispassionate approach to campaigns and candidates.

it's someone who can't be arsed to actually campaign for the job.

Something about a crown, robe, and scepter just makes us go wild.

She does more in one day as a public servant for Mainers than Platner has his whole life.

If talking with a YouTuber about how you are going to """fight""" billionaires and trying to whitewash that week's scandal is what voters look for in a candidate, that would explain why our country is in the shape it's in...

Kamala Harris was the sitting Vice President.

What happens if you can't campaign?

You lose.

She ran the best campaign I have ever seen. I thought, at the time, it was better than Barack Obama's campaign.

But she also didn't have an entire (primary) cycle to campaign.

toward a successful woman governor.

Who DIDN'T post a ridiculous bath towel selfie on a notorious hook up site beside a toilet with the seat up!

Jeez! That's some incredibly bad judgment. Oh and also the lying and blaming women for their rapes, etc., etc. That too.

But to each their own. I prefer him to Susan Collins.

It's hilarious! He should use it for his campaign!

I'll even put the toilet seat down.

Last minute intra-party ratfuckery is the worst.

Hey, I hear there might be a pseudo-scandal... let's figure out a way to capitalize on this, but to be clear -- to be VERY clear, I don't plan on leaving my house.

No, no campaigning for me. But remember, I'm still relevant. I'm just not ACTIVELY relevant.

Vote for me!!

But disparaging a strong and reliable Democratic woman with actual accomplishments to her name in favor of a """fighter""" that has never won any fights is very on brand for some Platner supporters...

Primaries are good. They're healthy. Let Mainers participate in their election.

And I hope everyone gets the opportunity to vote their conscience. Primaries are healthy.

I will admit to being very enthusiastic about my adopted candidate given how much I loathe Susan Collins.

But entirely, completely correct. Primaries decide who the nominee with be and this one has not happened yet.

She suspended her campaign a month ago. That’s a fighter, I guess?

So everything everyone has read, seen and heard about Platner has been psuedo-scandals??

Even the ones he and his wife have admitted to?

Prop your boy and excuse his BS all you want, but it is VERY uncool to imply his very real scandals are made up.

Trashing Democratic Governor Mills like that is total bullshit.

I'm pretty sure all the Maine early voters are aware of this as are most active Maine Democrats.

She was never off the ballot. She's been on the ballot the entire time.

She endorsed Platner when she suspended her campaign. If she’s had a change of heart, she should withdraw her endorsement and resume campaigning, not play cutesy semantic word games.

Swallwell suspended his campaign, should he remind California voters he is still on the ballot?

The reason candidates use the term “suspended” when dropping out, rather than “terminated” or some other more definitive term is for legal reasons.

Suspending a campaign still allows a campaign to raise funds in order to pay debts, including payroll for staff.

so there is not endorsement to withdraw.

She has been on the ballot this entire time.

People in Maine having been early voting since mid May. Their ballot contains the names of David Costello, Janet Mills, Graham Platner and (write-in).

I don't know the early voting count of how many ballots have already been cast, but the ballot has not been changed. She's been on the ballot the entire time.

It's good she addressed this since there is so much confusion. I've seen people on Bluesky who think the Maine primary has already ended. They probably aren't from Maine, but

It was posted all over DU.

and she still has not yet endorsed him.

https://mainemorningstar.com/briefs/mills-not-ready-to-support-platner-costello-though-still-in-race-says-he-would/

She used weasel words:

From NBC:

She said exactly what any Democrat should say.

I think we can all wait until the votes are tallied on June 9th, no?

But def don't vote for her if her lack of "ethics" troubles you.

I think the news of the day was a general "Dem consensus emerges as Mills exits race" or some such.

From NBC:

But Platner was the pretty likely the de facto nominee with the 40%+ polling

Mills said she suspended her campaign because she was out of money, I doubt she's received any more contributions since then. She can't run a very effective general election campaign (assuming she wins the primary) if she's out of money, but contributions might start coming in if she can pull this off.

Washing socks is calming.

She'd 100% lose to Collins.

If her slippers can't be bothered to touch ground, I'm not giving her the time of day. And I used to support her.

she stays in as a spoiler.

Reminds me of that.

Does that apply here?

Andrew Cuomo lost his primary if I remember correctly. Ranked choice and everything. He also had to resign in disgrace because of unwanted sexual advances.

No one is accusing Graham Platner of anything illegal. In fact, no one really knows what the accusations are.

Janet Mills is a Democrat and is on the Democratic Primary Ballot

Not the same thing at all.

He then ran again as an Independent and lost.

I don't see how Janet Mills plays into this scenario at all -- she is a Democrat and the primary isn't over.

I forgot he lost twice, lol

He was doing all imperial "This is my job to do!" while Mamdani was campaigning doorstep to doorstep.

Then he got his ass handed to him.

To my earlier point, Gov. Janet Mills was given the 'coronation' by Schumer etc. She has a great resume, elected statewide, no scandal, nothing bad...

But she, like Cuomo, did no campaigning. When she did, she seemed (to my eye) contemptuous of having to campaign.

That is why she was eventually losing by 40% and had to effectively drop out. A McCain drop out. Drop out for a couple weeks then come back in.

he just encouraged her to run.

Janet Mills in the Governor. I'm pretty sure everyone in Maine, at least the voters in Maine know who she is and what she stands for.

She has always been on the primary ballot. Votes have already been cast. More votes will be cast.

I don't understand why there is "concern" (sorry, but I had to) about this non breaking news story.

And she was the early favorite. When she got in, she was my preferred candidate. But that diminished.

Yeah - part of why she was a theoretically strong candidate was that the electorate knows her. The problem is the electorate wants someone new this time around. Apparently anyway.

I am tired of it.

Schumer to endorse Platner right after he wins the primary.

That's Schumer's main job. Get as many Democrats elected to the Senate as he can.

The fact that she stopped fundraising indicates that her detractors were right. She didn't really want the job. However I have no dog in this fight. I want whomever wins the primary to beat Concern-troll Collins. We need EVERY seat we can get.

I favored Mills over Platner before she suspended her campaign, but "phoning it in" like this is so disrespectful to the process and so infuriating. I still don't like Platner but Mills just comes across as so lazy and used up. Is this really the best person Schumer could have backed?

HInt: It is not mainstream Democrats.

When a guy talks plainly about the corporate wars, the outrageous military budgets and archaic strategies, the brokenness of our HC system and all the other plain talk, it attracts the attention of all those organizations who have been flooding our system with money to direct our government in direct opposition to the good of the people.