Graham Platner

And then we can bring in all these people who engage with politics via electoral campaigns, and we can train them how to be organizers and activists in their community.

And I think that's how you build the apparatus to knock on enough doors, talk to enough people, and build enough trust.

I'm convinced we're not just going to beat Susan Collins in November.

I think we're going to trounce Susan Collins.

And if the worst thing happens and we have an election that is contested or called into question, well, we still have an apparatus to turn people out.

to actually have people mobilize.

And if we have to, you know, resist fascism in the streets with a mass movement, which is really the only way you can.

And we're trying to build the apparatus to do both.

And when we're done, we want it to stay.

I don't want any of this to die because one single Senate seat's not gonna get us universal healthcare.

So we're gonna need to have the power of people still on our side in order to like get the wins we're gonna need down the road.

It's a, I mean, everybody works really hard.

Eastern Maine is fantastic.

economically depressed.

It's commercial fishing.

It is a lot of construction, mostly because we have some pretty substantial summer communities nearby, which brings money in.

And then across the bay from us, we have Acadia National Park.

So there's a lot of folks that work in industries that are related to tourism.

So it's a very...

It's a very working class area, which I frankly, as I think why it is this kind of weird back and forth between like Trumpism and not Trumpism.