‘The Democratic establishment is completely disconnected from where Democratic voters are,’ one strategist told Eric Garcia, after the rebuke to the seemingly out-of-touch 75-year-old Senate minority leader
Democrats are pressing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 75, to stay out of future primaries after his 78-year-old pick for Maine’s Senate race dropped out this week, Politico reported.
On Thursday, Gov. Janet Mills announced that she would drop out of the Democratic primary, essentially clearing the field for insurgent progressive candidate Graham Platner to become the party’s nominee to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
Schumer had backed Mills, the two-term governor of Maine, for the marquee race involving the only Republican representing a state with a majority that voted for Kamala Harris.
But Mills consistently polled behind Platner despite a litany of controversies around the oysterman regarding his use of a slur for people with disabilities, and his comments on Reddit from more than a decade ago about Black people not tipping at restaurants and about sexual assault.
Chuck and the rest of the centrist Democrats are just corporate assholes like Musk without saying the quiet part out loud.
We need populist candidates that will go against the MAGA fascists and the enablers like Chuck and Hakim
Yup. Primary them all - and if they win, don’t vote for them in the general, and make it plain you won’t so others know not to vote for them.
I will still vote for any democrat over any Republican, but the time of the general is not the time to complain.
Now is the time to complain and primary the centrist fuckers.
Now is the time to seize leverage. If other voters back a centrist, they will lose votes in the general.