Dan Pfeiffer
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You see that in a bunch of these house races.
You're seeing a ton of younger candidates taking on older candidates.
That is obviously a central race.
And then the third one is Inside Outside.
And the Inside Outside one is one of the reasons why the main thing is interesting, which is
And you never know what's causation and what's correlation with these things.
But as far as we can tell, Platner is winning the primary.
And by how much is an open question.
You see polls with him with a huge lead.
You see polls with a narrow lead.
But the gist of the polling is that Platner has an advantage.
Now, we haven't seen polling since Janet Mills went on the air with an ad highlighting the Reddit posts and those sorts of things.
So we'll see if that changes.
But it's just very interesting that this oysterman who has went through a brutal media cycle, who is leading the incumbent governor of the state who is –
Endorsed by the DSCC and Chuck Schumer and everyone else like that is just and so is that is Platner winning because he is a unique political talent.
Maybe is Platner winning because he's younger and Janet Mills would be the oldest person elected to the Senate, I believe.
Certainly in our party, after everything we went through with Biden, maybe.
Is he winning because she's endorsed by the establishment, including Chuck Schumer?
And Chuck Schumer has a minus 31 approval rating among Democrats right now, maybe.
So it's hard to know what that is.