Dem Maine Governor Janet Mills, age 77, announced on Thursday she’s dropping out of the senate primary to take on Concern Lady in November, leaving problematic, kind of weird, yet still formidable outsider Graham Platner as the effective nominee in the must-win race to flip the Senate.
Whether the Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren-backed Platner really knew his tattoo was a Nazi SS symbol when he got it inked and some silly shit he posted on Reddit over a decade ago aren’t as likely to matter in November as how cold it is and how much a gallon of home heating oil costs. The price last month was already up 44 percent year-over-year and in a state where half the homes are heated by black gold pumped from delivery trucks it there’s going to be a point where Eric Swalwell could be a viable contender against an incumbent from the party led by the fucking idiot who was posting a “Strait of Trump” meme on Wednesday in between not trying to demilitarize it.