Sumi Somaskanda
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168 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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We vet people.
We pick people who have had a past of public service.
We pick people who are proven, have a proven track record.
And that means you don't get these type of surprises down the road.
And there is real concern among the Democrats that this was their chance to win a critical Senate seat.
And that chance might be slipping away.
And I think that is the real point here, is that this is, again, a clear example of this battle in the Democratic Party between the course that they have gone in the past and this anti-establishment fervor that we've seen really roiling the party in places like New York, recently also in Colorado, as we've talked about some of those primary elections there.
And look, there's been a push for anti-establishment outsider candidates, both on the right and the left.
The Republicans have seen similar debates in their party as well.
But
In the end, there, Donald Trump is a unifying figure.
What is it then for Democrats?
And I asked another Democratic analyst about the fact that Graham Plattner, despite the earlier controversies, was still doing very well in the polls.
And in the reporting that you'd see on the ground with Mainers, and you spoke to them as well, you had a number of Democrats who would say,
Well, look, we need someone different.
We need someone who is not the establishment because look what the establishment got us.
We're back to Donald Trump again for another four years.
And if you wanted to create a candidate in a lab who represents perhaps the right face and the right figure for a progressive movement in Maine, you'd come up with Graham Platner.
He was an oyster farmer.
He's a Marine combat veteran, as you said.
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