After Graham Platner officially withdrew from the Maine Senate race this week, Democrats are now in the process of naming his replacement. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss how the party is trying to salvage their chances in the state, and more.
Democrats have been looking to win races in states such as Maine, Michigan, Ohio, and Alaska in the hopes of flipping at least four seats in the Senate during the upcoming midterm elections, Adam Harris, host of Radio Atlantic, explained last night. But the party’s scrambling over Platner suggests that Democrats may have learned the “wrong lesson from 2020 and 2024,” he argues. They were “looking for the prototypical candidate who can win back the isolated white male voters who they may have thought they lost to President Trump.”
Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times; Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent at Puck; Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker; Harris.
Watch the full episode here.