Dem Rep. Pingree on Platner’s Replacement: ‘It Will Be a Very Progressive Field and I Think We’ll Get a Good Candidate Out of It’

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PINGREE: “You know, I never endorse in primaries, and this is just like a primary as well. There are some great candidates, we have a good bench in Maine. We just ran a gubernatorial primary, a primary in the second CD, and there were people who had been thinking about getting into this race that Platner was in, that decided not to. So, there’s quite a few people interested in this, and so many of them are talking about the very same policies you just heard Graham talking about, health care, housing, child care, you know, not having billionaires in this country and reducing the taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the rich. I mean, there’s just so much people are talking about now. I think it will be a very progressive field and I think we’ll get a good candidate out of it.”