Steve Robinson

Well, I think that was the D.C.

conventional thinking was that she was the best candidate and that she was going to be the strongest person to take on Senator Collins.

But here in Maine, I was always very skeptical of the idea that she was going to run in the first place.

In fact, I think I lost a lobster dinner to a D.C.

Politico when she did declare her support was always very weak.

Really, the only message that she had during her brief primary campaign was that she, you know, was a brat at a White House dinner and picked a fight with President Trump over keeping boys and girls sports.

And even in Maine, as far left and wacky as we are, that's like a 60-40 issue, a 70-30 issue.

A bipartisan majority of voters disagree with the governor on that policy.

And so I never thought that she was going to be a very strong Senate contender.

So I had always predicted that Governor Mills was going to drop out as soon as the legislature was done with its business.

That happens here in Maine on veto day, which took place on Wednesday.

And I don't think that this is a good sign for Senator Collins.

I think that Governor Mills would have been much more beatable.

The fact that she never caught fire in the Democratic primary shows how soft support always was for her.

And Graham Platner, despite all of the controversies swirling around him, his Nazi tattoo, his history of making racist, lewd, homophobic, anti-Semitic comments on Reddit, his temper, very, very volatile personality.

Democrats seem to be sticking with him almost as the anti-Trump, a reaction against Trump.

And so I think Senator Collins is going to be in for the toughest reelection she's had in her entire career.

Well, so I think the first thing to know about Graham Platner is that he ended up as a candidate because he was an amateur actor in an aquaculture commercial.

Some progressive political consultants saw it and flew up to Maine and convinced him to run as a candidate.

So he was Tabula Rasa.