Tim Miller

They want fighters.

They don't want people in their 80s.

They want people that are going to demonstrate that they are up for the moment.

And so having the D.C.

establishment try to force people on them is not only not going to work, it's going to backfire, like we saw in Maine.

And this is kind of related to the Hassan discourse I was getting into.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy because I live through, obviously there are differences, but I live through the populist base uprising in the Republican Party.

Some of it is untameable.

But there are things that can be done and there's things that shouldn't be done.

There are things that backfire.

And I watched it all.

Like I watched it all happen.

I watched how the limp Republican establishment just kept stepping on rake after rake as they watched the Tea Party and then eventually Trump take over.

And so there's at least some lessons learned from what not to do that I can offer to people.

And one thing not to do is try to feed a 80-year-old establishment candidate, Lobster Biden, onto an electorate

that that has told you they don't want it okay if you want a fight and mod you got to find a fight and mod and i don't i don't exactly know like dan cleveland was in the race initially he's a beer guy in maine who knows how well the good of a campaign he could have run but the fact that chuck schumer went and pushed a kind of an independent-minded mainstream democratic businessman out of the race and pressured him and others to endorse janet mills's hopeless campaign and then

went negative and started dropping oppo on Graham Platner long after it was obvious that Platner was going to win.

And it was just a comedy of errors.

And the comedy of errors was based on a lack of understanding of what is really happening on the ground.

And if you understood what was really happening on the ground and you were worried about Platner because of his history, because he's a little bit of a loose cannon, whatever reason, if you have legitimate concerns that this is a risky bet for Maine,