Coup de Maine

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Matt Continetti is back to discuss Janet Mills dropping out of the Maine senate primary and the potential rise of candidates like Graham Platner in the democratic party, the Supreme Court's ruling on the Louisiana racial gerrymander case, Pete Hegseth's appearance before congress, and the American blockade strategy against Iran. Plus, Matt recommends the book Monsters in the Archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the best.
0:07.0	Expect the words.
0:10.0	Some drink and may.
0:12.0	Some die of birds.
0:14.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:18.0	Hope for the best.
0:19.0	Expect the worst. Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Thursday, April 30th, 2026. I am John Podhord's, the editor of Commentary Magazine. With me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. Social
0:39.6	commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. And our Thursday guy.
0:45.9	He needs a better nickname than Thursday guy. Thursday guy.
0:49.1	Isn't that the chapter 10 story? The man who is Thursday? The man who is Thursday.
0:53.3	Yeah. Yeah.
0:57.0	Free expression at the Wall Street Journal columnist and AEI Puba, Matthew Contonetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John. News literally just coming across the transom as we are beginning this podcast, Maine Governor Janet Mills
1:12.3	recruited with great fanfare only four or five months ago to run in the Senate race against
1:18.6	the venerable Susan Collins, the Republican in Maine who defies, has defied for several cycles the expectation that she could be voted out as
1:33.6	as senator.
1:36.2	The Democrats very excited to get Janet Mills, the sitting governor in the race, found
1:41.9	herself under, you know, in Pickett's Charge against this radical Nazi tattooed,
1:52.8	rich kid posing as a working class sought named Graham Platner. And apparently Plattner
1:59.9	has run her out of the race. She has
2:01.9	suspended her campaign. He will then obviously become the Democratic nominee for the Senate
2:09.1	if there was any doubt that he would have prevailed in a two in a contest against Mills,
2:14.7	which seemed obviously to be in doubt, and now Mills has made that clear.
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