Tim Miller

And it's kind of like, well, we'll just, let's give this a try.

Like maybe the people really do want an uncouth left populist.

And it would be a worthwhile political science experiment to see how that goes in Nebraska.

But the Maine race, Maine's a blue state.

And this is a point I'm stealing from Matt Iglesias, but like,

all you need to do is to win the main senate race is win the kamala harris voters so it's not like really a great place for an experiment of like can we win back these obama trump voters or working class types or whatever like kamala harris won me so you just need to win kamala harris voters so on the one hand like it seems kind of unnecessarily risky to do this um in maine another thing i've just kind of been reflecting on personally because this is a take i've had for a while is that i

It's hard to know the future ramifications of getting on board with somebody.

And I think that the echoes of the Clinton personal behavior issues continue to cause problems for the Democrats themselves.

Until 2016.

I mean, it's like Clinton had the Monica Lewinsky blowjob in what, 1996 or something?

Whatever it was.

It was like 20 years later, there were echoes.

And so you don't always know when you're kind of getting on board with somebody that has unknown baggage.

You don't always know what the...

unintended consequences will end up being and i don't think anybody even platners most loyal supporters would look at us and say hey there's nothing more that's going to come out like obviously more is going to come out we just don't know what exactly it's like that's like the case for like maybe just going back to a you know whatever the the guy that's at five percent that seems to like not have any baggage like is that not a better bet just in this case yeah

On the other hand, he has demonstrated extraordinary political skill.

And I think that a lot of his opponents don't want to say that.

He's traveled Maine a lot.

I've talked to people about this.

Voters in Maine have got to know him.