CHUCK SCHUMER and the DNC have now endorsed Platner as have a number of Maine politicians, though Angus King has not endorsed. Which is rather ridiculous considering:
Maine’s junior senator “historically doesn’t weigh in on races involving his colleagues,” King spokesperson Matt Felling said Friday.
King, a former governor and independent who caucuses with Democrats, has served with Collins since he first won election to the Senate in 2012. While King is opting to not opine on the race involving Collins, she did not do the same during King’s 2024 reelection race that he won comfortably over former Maine Republican Party Chair Demi Kouzounas.
Collins recruited Kouzounas to run that year against King, who responded at the time by saying he was “disappointed” in the move.
I voted for Angus King for the Senate and once for Governor but I don't much like him or respect him. He's among the most lawyerly of lawyer politicians and, before that, a media figure in Maine. Once in a while he makes a good point during hearings but mostly, not. Interestingly, his son has endorsed Platner,
Angus King III, a former clean energy executive and son of Maine’s junior senator, also complimented Mills in a statement while nodding to Platner as the expected nominee.
“From now to the primary and beyond, I look forward to working with our presumptive nominee Graham Platner to bring people together and make sure we win in November,” King said.
Rep. Chellie Pingree my House member from the 1st District hasn't endorsed him so far, which I think is kind of strange. Maybe she has by now but I haven't heard it.
The Democrats who are seeking the second district nomination for the seat held by the Republicrat Jared Golden (the putrid Paul LePage has the Republican-fascist nomination) have all endorsed Platner.
“Sen. Baldacci and Graham had a very friendly call. They agreed to do an cannoli/oyster swap this summer when they are both the nominees,” Baldacci campaign spokesperson Jared Bornstein said.
Dunlap and Wood also essentially endorsed Platner in different statements. Loud, who has been running behind the others in polling and fundraising, has not publicly endorsed Platner.
I am glad that Schumer and the DNC as well as the DSCC are supporting the presumptive Democratic nominee.
I came to the conclusion back when the vile and hypocritical corporate Democrat Joe Lieberman sandbagged Democrats when he didn't get the presidential nomination that every person who seeks a Democratic nomination should be forced to promise their support for the person who wins the nomination. That if they didn't pledge to go along with the will of the majority of Democratic voters they didn't deserve the nomination. There is no right to hold any elected office, the office belongs to the voters and those who the politician promises to represent. The likes of Lieberman don't seem to get that. No one has a right to hold an office, it is, rather, an assumed responsibility. THAT SHOULD BE THE BASIS OF ALL OFFICES HELD IN A DEMOCRACY.
And, considering the fact that the Roberts Court six-fascist vote majority has gutted American democracy, yet again, last week, that those appointed NOT ELECTED to be judges and "justices" have an even more tenuous "right" to hold the public offices they haven't been entrusted to by the voters but by the idiotic amateurism of the foolish slave-holder-financier founders. Yet under out idiotic Constitution and the even worse distortions of it under the Court and the Senate, they have what they seem to feel is a divine right to dictatorial powers under a regime of billionaire-millionaire bribes and grift. I hope that Graham Platner is part of the final end to that, starting with the Marbury usurpation of power under which the Roberts Court has destroyed the most significant step towards achieving democracy, the Voting Rights Act..
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