Tim Miller

And so a lot of discourse about this.

Everybody has thoughts, some of them about Platner, some of them about their own feelings of hypocrisy and integrity and meta conversations.

It yields a lot of conversations that aren't really about the main Senate race at all.

But I have some thoughts, but I figured I'd just give you the table first.

Yeah, I think it'll be hard for him to catch up too.

Okay, I've got a long sermon on it.

So just, you know, buckle up, have a sip of tea.

It's complicated.

And I think that a lot of people, like the big Platner supporters and both the good faith and bad faith opponents of Platner, you kind of want to sand this down into kind of a one-dimensional question.

Like the supporters of him really want to say, hey, they're really coming after him because he's this economic populist and he's a challenge to the status quo and don't let them do that.

I think that's kind of true.

But I don't think if he was a moderate candidate that also was like...

you know had this whole roster of history that he does i think that there would also be a lot of consternation about that so i don't think it's like quite true how they're putting it like the opponents of platner just want to say like nazi tattoo hypocrite you know uh you can't support this person you

can be consistent and oppose Trump and also be for planner.

I, you know, there's a lot of that kind of discourse out there.

And like the reality is that it's just, it is more complicated than all that.

And he's not running for president.

He's running for the Senate.

So like the negatives of this on the one hand, I would say from a political matter, and I've said this from the start about him, um,

it does feel kind of unnecessarily risky for such an important race as Maine, you know, like throwing them in the, throwing a platter in the Nebraska Senate race.