Our elitist media are so dedicated to the Democratic Get together that the one time you will be assured that a couple of questions may get robust is when there’s a major election. As soon as a candidate wins the first, then all controversies are categorized as determined Republican distractions and dismissed.
The networks haven’t been paying a lot consideration to Maine, the place two Democrats need the nomination to oppose longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Gov. Janet Mills is going through oyster farmer Graham Platner. That’s a lady who’s been in public service for 50 years versus a rookie.
On the MS NOW present The Weekend Primetime, co-host Elise Jordan pressed Mills firmly over her two stands on the power of President Biden to run for re-election.
Jordan famous that after Biden’s “disastrous” 2024 debate, Mills put out a press release in July that mentioned “Over the following a number of months, and particularly within the coming days, I look ahead to the President demonstrating to the American individuals the identical coronary heart, willpower, and vigor that he delivered to our dialog this night.”
Then Mills informed Mark Leibovich of The Atlantic that in that assembly with Biden and different Democrat governors, she “was amongst those that pleaded with him to step apart.” Jordan requested, “So why ought to voters belief your judgment now if you had one opinion privately that was very impactful on the destiny of our nation within the grand scheme of issues, after which now, if you’re vouching to your personal well being, inform us why we must always belief you?” That’s a fantastic query. Mills uncomfortably chuckled.
“Hear, I wasn’t going to kick the man when he was down, actually,” Mills mentioned. “However we had a gathering with the president just some weeks or so after the horrible debate. And I used to be one of many individuals who spoke up and mentioned, you realize – we, all of the governors, Democratic governors – known as for this assembly with a view to attempt to – to attempt to dissuade him from operating. That did not work at the moment. Finally he did make the appropriate determination.”
Shock! MS NOW host Elise Jordan presses firmly on Gov. Janet Mills, laying out how she took one place on Biden’s cognitive decline in public and the alternative in non-public. “So… inform us why we must always belief you?” That’s a fantastic query. Mills uncomfortably chuckled. pic.twitter.com/H5NgKfyvz1
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 25, 2026
The Democrats ought to nonetheless be pressed on their failure to strain Biden out of the race in 2024, and that features the Democrats within the media who have been nonetheless accommodating Biden’s rising cognitive frailty. It’s too unhealthy Joe Scarborough isn’t operating for something, so we may watch him on a tape loop endlessly boasting concerning the “greatest Biden ever.”
This age difficulty is extra related since if Mills have been elected, she can be a freshman Senator on the age of 79, serving a six-year time period. (Collins is 73. Platner is 41.)
MS NOW’s Jordan carried out the identical perform with Platner in January, urgent him on his Nazi chest tattoo, that this “Totenkopf” cranium and crossbones picture is “principally the worst one you can have.” She mentioned he claimed he didn’t know what it was, however individuals documented him on Reddit speaking about it. Platner denied discussing it.
Mills not too long ago ran an advert that includes Platner’s social-media strut in 2013 that individuals involved about rape shouldn’t “get so f—ed up they wind up having intercourse with somebody they don’t imply to.” The message was deleted.
Sen. Collins may be having fun with this battle, however the broadcast networks are typically horrible at masking the midterm elections – until they assume they’ll wreck a Republican. In the summertime of 2010, the networks energetically obsessed over clunky rape-and-abortion remarks made by GOP Senate candidates Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock.
Graham Platner is aware of that’s unlikely to occur to him. If he loses, he will not be capable of blame ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS.
