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Playbook.

Today on the Playbook podcast, Chuck Schumer is being told to sit out the remaining Senate Democratic primaries across the map, especially after Janet Mills' face

plant in Maine on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Iran War has hit its 60-day mark, and people are still

feeling it at the gas pumps. Inflation is still rising. Economic midterm ripple effects are happening.

And finally, Congress has gone on its May recess. The

War Resolution Act wasn't voted on. Hello, I'm Adam Wren. And I'm Megan Messerly. It's Friday,

May 1st. Megan, it's so good to have you here. Yeah, it's always good to be back with you,

Adam. Adam, you have some great reporting. I want to hear all about it.

Yeah, it's been a wild week, and it felt like the political world blew up yet again on Thursday.

Megan, we woke up yesterday to news that Maine Governor Janet Mills was dropping out of one of the most contested Senate Democratic primaries

across the map in one of the most essential general election battleground states for Republicans

and Democrats. She pointed to lack of campaign funds as the reason for exiting the race.

Megan, there were a lot of signs that this was going to happen in recent weeks.

She had canceled some fundraisers.

And after two significant negative ads against Platner involving his former deleted Reddit posts,

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