Jon Favreau
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I'm not saying that, therefore, Graham Plattner must get a seat.
We must do it for him.
I am just saying that on an individual level, as a party, sometimes I think that one of our... And maybe this is just me, but like...
I want to believe well about people, and then I want to believe that when people fuck up and do something horrible and are genuinely sorry and genuinely want to change, that they are able to do that and that people can accept them for doing that.
No matter who they are, what they believe, what their background is,
And also it's like and again, how many can you add up and pile up if you want to be a United States senator?
Now, I also think that it's the other challenges, you know, contrary to what people online have said, like the guy generated an impressive amount of support in Maine.
It's also to like it's it's, you know, for all the what did Chuck Schumer in the DSCC do with Janet Mills or what did the left do forcing Graham Platner on?
It's like no one forced Janet Mills on anyone.
No one forced Graham Platner on anyone.
Graham Platner decided to run and a bunch of people showed up.
Chuck Schumer wanted Mills to run and she said, sure.
And she ran a campaign like, and then the people of Maine came out and you know what?
We have a primary on Tuesday.
And I do think like, I mean, he's, she's on the ballot still.
There's like one other candidate as well.
You expect him to get like,
if he was a normal candidate without a scandal in a situation like that, 85, 90% of the voting percent, if he's down to like 60, 65, it's a real fucking problem.
Or if, and like, I don't want to just, because you don't want to just base it on polls, but like, you know, we haven't seen any polls post the sexting scandal, except for their internal, which had them only up four for a while.