Katty Kay

And along comes this upstart with no political background.

There's no machinery behind him, and somehow he takes fire.

Democratic voters in Maine think, this is the guy we want because he is anti-establishment.

Young voters in particular like him.

I think Republicans are thrilled that Janet Mills has pulled out because they thought she was a harder opponent for them in Maine.

Democrat activists are thrilled that she's pulled out because they like Graham Plattner.

Graham Plattner is a super interesting character, Anthony, because in some ways he's very progressive, economically very progressive against the oligarchy, against income inequality, but he's also pretty in line with Maine, which is a white...

quite conservative state.

So he opposes, for example, an assault weapons ban.

He doesn't call for abolishing ICE.

He just wants some ICE reform.

So although he's seen, I think, as being very populist, he's an interesting brand of populism in the Democratic Party.

He's different from, say, Mamdani, and he's different from the guy in Michigan who we're going to talk about in a second, too.

What do you think of him?

Do you think he can win in Maine?

Susan Collins, you're talking about, the sitting Republican senator.

and kind of PTSD from being a veteran.

Republicans are thrilled about this.

But I think there is a question, is there a mood in American politics at the moment?

And what's interesting about Plattner is I don't think you can say he's hard left.