‘This is fine’: How a meme explains Platner’s riseBy Abdallah FayyadLast week, Governor Janet Mills of Maine suspended her campaign for the US Senate, making Graham Platner, a progressive-leaning oyster farmer, the presumptive Democratic nominee to take on Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, in November.That Mills dropped out of the race isn’t exactly surprising; poll after poll had shown Platner leading the race by double digits. But it’s shocking nonetheless. Mills, after all, is the sitting two-term governor. She has served as the state’s attorney general. And she had the support of the Democratic Party’s leadership, having been recruited to...
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