Jon Lovett

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Pod Save America · The Race to Replace Graham Platner · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

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And it needs to be said, you've been a Platinum Skeptic from the beginning, the very beginning, before anyone, before the Reddit posts came out, before the tattoo, before the more recent stuff, you were a Platinum Skeptic.

And I will say here that you were right and I was wrong.

Well, you were right to be skeptical of Graham Platner.

Would you like to take a victory lap?

And I felt like I just summarily dismissed her.

Yeah, you know, when I say I summarily dismissed Mills, let me say what my actual real position was, because this is sort of how you and I first had this conversation, was Janet Mills gets in the race.

The DSCC endorses her.

Five minutes later, Chuck Schumer endorses her.

and we know at the time that the DSCC has been trying to clear the field for Janet Mills, telling people like Hannah Pingree and these other candidates in Maine to run for governor, not run for Senate, because Janet Mills is the chosen candidate of the Democratic establishment.

My view at the time was that I thought that was a big mistake for the DSCC, that if the DSCC is going to get involved in a primary, they better be

100 percent certain that they have the best candidate.

And I didn't think you could look at what happened with Susan Collins in 2020, what happened in the country in 2024 and declare beyond a shadow of a doubt that a 79 year old unpopular two term governor was our best bet.

I wasn't convinced Graham Plattner was a better bet, but I thought the voters of Maine should pick it up.

Now, I was intrigued by Plattner for sure.

I'm not going to take that.

I'm not going to dispute that.

I've been thinking a lot because I was wrong here.

I don't like being wrong.

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