Dan Pfeiffer

That is not Susan Collins.

She won-

Big, when Biden was winning Maine by 11 in 2020, she has been fortunate enough because of the size of this Republican majority to not have to vote for a lot of these nominees, didn't vote for the one big, beautiful bill.

And so this is not an easy person to beat.

And so you should then at least open your mind's eye to the possibility that the way to beat a strong candidate like that is for an outside of the box idea.

For someone to do something different.

Because Janet Mills, she may be a great candidate, but she is just a better version of the Sarah Gideon campaign in 2020.

It's the same thing.

It's an establishment Democrat running.

What if we had an anti-establishment, an outsider, someone with appeal?

And just let the people in Maine decide.

You don't have to put your thumb on the scale.

It's just such a failure to read the room, both to understand politics and to read the room about what people are so mad at the Democratic Party leadership about.

It's the response – I've been like really fascinated by the response to Mills being in this race, to my piece about Mills being in the race.

I heard from a lot of people who I've not heard from a long time.

In one particular instance, the last text I had from this person who works high in democratic politics was them being mad at me about wanting Biden to drop out.

which I thought was a notable.

It's like the single last time we texted, but like I saw someone post online, something like they took the CNN story and they quote tweeted and said like, maybe we could finally learn the lesson to stop falling in love with unvetted shapeshifters.

And it's like, okay, so let's slow down for a second.

One, maybe this just gets my backup because the exact argument that people made against Barack Obama in 2008 was,