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He has extremely weak competition, he's a very good speaker who says the right things, and Trump has lowered the bar enough that it's easier to survive scandals that used to doom political careers.
Also worth noting that Maine is a bit, quirky when it comes to electoral politics. They seem to get off on electing people that are a giant ball of contradictions.
The talent pool up there is pretty shallow and anyone running for public office is immediately suspect. The good ol' boy network is thick as thieves. Like a woke South Carolina.
A healthy dose of DNC astroturfing helps too
The DNC does NOT like him at all wtf are you talking about? They would much rather Janet Mills be the democratic candidate.
They don't? All I ever hear about this chode from mainstream sources is how the totenkopf tattoo is a nothingburger and he just did a few lil wholesome chungus warcrimerinos and it's not that big of a deal. Dems (at least on the national level; can't speak to the Maine state-level apparatus) have proven in the past that they can and will ratfuck any candidate at any time, so I guess I assumed Mills just pissed someone off and this is how they're getting rid of her.
A cursory glance at mainstream media seems to show them being annoyed at his success, while the outlets playing down things like the tattoo the most are places like Jacobin
I am once again posting my conspiracy theory which has no evidence that the mills campaign was fake and only meant to make it seem as though they didn’t want platner to win. The corporate media has been guzzling platner’s — HARD since he entered the race. His half brother has been photographed with the president of the entity. They want him to win, although they’re also pretty happy with collins.
That doesn't really fit with what I've seen?
Looking through the news now, it looks like the coverage of platner is either neutral or somewhat negative but not like viciously hostile. I can’t find it now of course but I swear to god my extremely bourgeois firefox recommended news items had a very Biden-esque headline a few weeks ago which read something like “Platner wants to do [X Good Thing].” After I saw that I assumed that they adored him, but I may have jumped the gun.
Source will have to be "trust me bro" on this but she grabbed her bag and quit as soon as she got it. She was never going to win and never intended to. It was a personal favor to someone who wanted her to run.
I think they're at least fine with him if they're not actively colluding with him. The "establishment" campaign against him was pathetic and they've fully transferred their support behind him after Mills dropped out even though the primary isn't even over yet.
And why wouldn't they be? He's clearly a petty bourgeois nationalist and stupid. He'll be very easy to keep in line.