Graham Platner

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.

One, what we're doing in Maine is we are truly trying to build a real on the ground, organized, broad coalition of, frankly, working class power.

And in the doing of that in a state that's as small as Maine is.

By the time we get to the general, I'm going to have either directly connected with a substantial portion of the electorate or a bunch of people who are just going to tell their friends.

And the way Maine tends to work is that people trust their friends and their neighbors more than they trust TV ads from political groups.

And part of our strategy, quite frankly, is just to cut through all of it by engaging as many people as possible.

And

personally interacting with is, I do three to six public events a day.

I mean, I do not sleep much and that's fine.

We very well might meet everyone in Maine.

And we go everywhere.

I mean, this is not like, we're not doing some kind of weird math about like, oh, we've got our win number and we're only gonna focus on that.

Like for me, we truly need to change politics.

And to do that, we have to engage with everybody, even people who we might not agree with, even people who might initially be very either resistant or hesitant or even oppositional to the message.

Although we have found that when we do engage with those folks, we have a lot of common ground.

They go great.