Susan Page: There’s No Way for the Democrats to Force Graham Platner to Give Up the Nomination

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PAGE: “So, it’s acknowledging the reality that he will not be the next senator from Maine. But it’s a delicate process because there’s no way for the party to force him to give up the nomination. He won that in the primary. So, they do — while they’re saying he doesn’t have a role to play in who the next nominee is going to be, they do need him to make this decision to step aside. And they also need to unite a Democratic Party that is in kind of a mess. You know, the two-term governor, Janet Mills, suspended her campaign after she made no traction against Graham Platner. He came out of nowhere to win this nomination on a surge of outsider sentiment. So, they’ve got less than four months for Democrats to unite and defeat Susan Collins, which, as Jeff said, is crucial to their hopes of winning control of the U.S. Senate.”