Michael Barbaro

It begins with the Democratic Party leadership, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, saying, "...we know what works in a general election."

And what we know is that the slightly more milquetoast candidate, Governor Janet Mills, can win statewide.

And Mills has been vetted, and we know her risks.

And you all, the angry base, you want to pick someone who's not vetted.

And that means that you may be consigning us to losing this general election.

Why would you do that?

Pick someone safe.

There's nothing wrong with having glasses near the end of your nose.

Shane, where else are we seeing the framework that we just talked through in Maine playing out in these Democratic primaries?

Does it or do these outsider, authentic, flawed candidates make it harder for Republicans to run against the Democratic brand because these people are themselves kind of running against Plattner?

the Democratic brand?

Mm-hmm.

Just to wrap up this conversation, it feels like the universal theme across all these primaries is anger.

Trump's got his anger at his opponents.

He wants to take them out.

He hopes that will lead to more favorable congressional maps in the midterms.

Democrats are trying to figure out how to handle the anger among their voters and whether to respond to it by picking angry candidates angry at the establishment.

So how are you thinking about which of these angers might prevail?

Well, Lisa, Shane, Reid, thank you very much.

Thank you, Michael.