Katty Kay

I think you can say he's populist and he's anti-establishment.

But some of what he says is left and some of what he says has echoes of cultural conservatism.

He's an interesting kind of very main specific candidate, specific to that kind of rural working class state, white state.

I think there's a chance that he wins because of the nature of the state that he's coming from and because he is tapping into something else.

about income inequality and hard times that a lot of American voters are feeling at the moment.

So I think Maine is still in play.

Republicans are thinking gleefully, that's it.

Susan Collins gets back in again.

The other thing that's happening in Maine is he's much younger.

And Susan Collins is much older and has been around for decades.

And there is a sort of generational shift taking place in American politics, which you're seeing in the Michigan race, too, where you've got a whole group of younger people running and younger voters are fed up with old people hanging on to seats decade after decade and never stepping down and getting, you know, kind of corrupted by Washington and by power.

And you've got a lot of young voters in the country saying and young candidates in the country saying it's our turn now.

No.

I mean, it's remarkable.

And we've unearthed social media posts that have been accused of being homophobic, of being misogynist.

There's the Totenkopf skull image on his tattoo.

He puts all that down to youthful indiscretions.

And I think in this weird social media era where this idea of authenticity, which never has to be quite defined, and you've got other candidates as well saying you've got it in Michigan as well.

One of the more centrist Democratic candidates, Mallory McMorrow, had these social media posts from when she first moved to Michigan from California saying, oh, this makes me miss California even more.

And now, of course, that's got dragged up by her opponents saying, see, she's not really from Michigan.