Jon Lovett

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15,055 appearances 44 recordings 6 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 8 Sep

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

I thought to beat Susan Collins, you needed a higher variance candidate, someone who could do something different than Sarah Gideon did or all of the people who came before.

And I was not convinced that Janet Mills could do that.

And I do believe that that was actually the right

Not that Platner was the right person.

Obviously, he was not.

But that Janet Mills was the wrong candidate.

And, you know, and so... And then the second... The thing that, you know, that I feel I'm mad at myself about is, you know, as we went through this process, when you and I first had this conversation, we knew nothing about Platner.

And then we saw the online posts.

And...

you know, the things he said were horrible.

And I thought there was a real chance that that could be disqualifying both in the primary and the general to voters, right?

But I did believe, naively, apparently, the story he told about being a person who was dealing with PTSD at a dark time in their life and drinking and did a bunch of things and then changed their life, improved.

And I do believe that we should leave space for people who make mistakes to still be in politics.

And I believed that, and I believed, and I actually still believe this, the story he told about how he got the tattoo was true.

Now, what I've come to, like, I do not believe that he knew it was a Nazi tattoo.

And I certainly don't believe he was a secret Nazi for all the very, very many bad things.

I think he lied about when he discovered that it was a Nazi tattoo.

That I have come to believe.

But I don't, there's, this is a guy who was not shy about sharing his opinions online.

So I feel like if he really was a Nazi, we would know that.

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