Graham Platner

And when it came, I was happy to talk about it because, quite frankly, I think it's a pretty standard story of people that aren't trying to get into politics or just regular human beings in general.

You go through phases in life.

You believe things when you're younger.

You say things.

You do things.

And then you learn new things.

And then you change.

And then you become a different version of yourself, which, I mean, in my experience, is pretty much just like what most people go through.

So it was actually very kind of ironic that –

That whole thing blew up as if it was this huge scandal.

And in reality, I think it actually really strengthened the campaign because a lot of people could like directly engage with that feeling of like, yeah, I have not – most of us have –

not always been who we are today.

And we also have to very much understand that if we're gonna build a better future, we need to keep an opening for a lot of people to change.

Because if we're all stuck right now in some ossified political thought and nobody's capable of changing,

And then what's the point of doing any of this?

Yeah.

So this response is going to be exactly what it was, which is like I'm happy to talk about all this stuff.

I, when that whole thing started, it like never crossed any of our minds to like run away from it.

It was just kind of like, no, I mean, this is just, it's part of my life and in many ways, it's kind of part of my political journey.

And so I'm happy to, happy to discuss it.