Graham Platner

That's, frankly, journalistic malpractice.

And that turned some people off.

But ultimately, you know, partisanship is a very powerful force.

And the stakes being what they are in a race that could tip control of the Senate.

most Democrats are going to put aside their concerns, hold their nose.

But, and this is a big but and the thing to watch, I think, heading into November, Susan Collins has a proven, almost unique ability in this day and age to win split-ticket voters, to get people to vote for Joe Biden at the top of the ticket and then vote for her.

So it would only take a relatively small number of Democrats

defections from platner or people who have previously voted for collins who would now be up for grabs vote for a democrat it would only take a little a small number of them to to potentially tip things back into collins's column especially if there are more revelations yet to come do you think he can win against collins i do think he he can win against susan collins

I mean, just to level set for a second, I think any Democrat would have a tough time beating Susan Collins.

A lot of people look at Maine.

It's New England.

It's a blue state.

We haven't voted for a Republican president since 1988.

So they assume, you know, this is low-hanging fruit.

It's really not.

Susan Collins is a very effective politician, proven durability.

So...

I think this race, no matter who the Democrat was, was always going to be a tight within the margin of error race.

That said, Plattner's been able to raise the money.

He's been able to hold the coalition together so far.