This is right now with Perry Bacon presented by the DSR Network.

Good morning, everybody. I'm Perry Bacon. I'm the host of the New Republic Show right now.

We have some breaking news. This is unusual today. But our guest is Alex Siteswell. He's the deputy editor of the Mid Coast Villager, which is a paper in Maine.

And he was already scared as a guest, and we were going to talk about Janet Mills versus

Graham Plattenor.

But it appears that that is no longer a race going on.

Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, decided to suspend her campaign, her primary campaign,

you know, conceding the facility that Graham Platiner is leading and likely to win.

So Alex wrote the story for Midcoast Villager and he's here to join us now.

Alex, welcome.

Hey, Perry, thanks for having me.

Yeah, the news gods must have known that we have this scheduled

and to drop it right before we got online. So this happened about, like about an hour ago,

about like around 9 o'clock Eastern time. So from what I can see in Mills has made some comments.

I'm not sure if there's a statement, an interview, but she's saying that she basically has run out of money. Do you or doesn't have enough money? Is that, is this, almost belly blunt, does she not have enough money or is she going to lose and kind of ducking that? The primary is on June 9th, and she's been down in the polls.

Yeah, I mean, this is a massive, totally unexpected

development. I've been following this race closely. I'm shocked, honestly, by this. And I do,

I think the money is real. I mean, it's a reminder that in politics, like, you don't drop out

because you have bad press or bad polling, unless you have extremely bad press like Eric Swalwell.

It's when the money runs out.

You know, I don't know that she was totally dry, but she had been outspent two to one and outraised two to one by Graham Platner.

She pulled all of her digital ads last week, which was a big tell that money was tight.

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