Dan Pfeiffer
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Because I know how the DSCC ended up in this position.
They've been recruiting Janet Mills for months.
They had no idea who the fuck Graham Platner was.
Graham Platner got in the race and he turned out to really blow up and raise a lot of money and get a lot of attention.
And I think there were 750 people at a Graham Platner town hall or rally the other night.
But they'd made all these promises to Janet Mills, so they're here.
What they're doing in Michigan to get behind Haley Stevens against Abdul El-Sayed and Mallory McMorrow, to me, is nuts.
That's another conversation for another day, but that decision is even crazier to me than this one.
I think this is really interesting.
It calls the question on if you really believe that gerontocracy is a huge problem in the party, then you have to believe it whether the older candidate is...
Liberal or moderate?
Look, I like Ed Markey a lot.
I think Seth Moulton's pretty interesting.
I think it's great that there's a primary here, right?
And we should let the, be like, you and I don't get to decide, right, who's better.
I mean, you could if you move back and vote in your own state, but you don't vote there anymore.
But it's like, I think these older candidates, if they're unwilling to step aside, should face a challenge.
And if they win the primary, if that's what the vote, if he's on the Massachusetts side,