While the major media chews over campaign strategy and timing and what she shoulda woulda coulda done differently, here’s what actually happened: Americans didn’t want her, and they refused to budge. It’s an extraordinary victory of public will.
Mills was handpicked by Senate Leader Chuck Schumer himself. Party leadership saw her as their best shot at toppling Susan Collins — the only Republican senator from a state Kamala Harris won. Voters were endlessly browbeat about how inexperienced her primary opponent was, how this race was existential, how a vote against Mills was a vote for the political abyss.
There was a time when that kind of emotional blackmail worked. Not anymore.
Crossposted from https://news.abolish.capital/post/46384
Good for Maine. Gives me some hope.
Maine somehow ended up choosing her and SUSAN collins. hope they dont make the same mistakes with Platner, because his views are a little wishy washy.
I mean I'd rather a third party soc get it. If people can put that energy into the Totenkopf guy, surely they can put it into a socialist?
I agree. It'd be better to get more socialists in and more AIPAC/corpo dems out.