The Midterm Race is Heating Up As Graham Platner and Janet Mills Fight It Out in Maine
IHIP News
Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan
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🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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2026 is shaping up to be one of the most important election years in the history of our country.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, let's talk about the Democratic Party and where we go after we lost an election |
| 0:11.0 | to a man, a convicted felon, who tried to overthrow the federal government. |
| 0:16.0 | To me, Trump's victory is more of an indictment on the Democratic Party than anything else. |
| 0:23.0 | The fact that we couldn't beat him. |
| 0:25.4 | And you can say the candidate or this or that. |
| 0:27.5 | But I think it's that the Democratic Party had morphed itself into something that wasn't |
| 0:33.8 | that different from the Republican Party. |
| 0:36.8 | The only difference were some social issues, |
| 0:39.3 | like, okay, we're for gay marriage and we think a woman has a right to choose. But when it came to |
| 0:44.5 | business and capitalism and regulations and consumer protections, there was very little difference |
| 0:50.6 | because both parties receive donations from the same entities. And so this is an |
| 0:57.4 | interesting case study that's coming and it is a Senate seat in Maine. And of course, you know, |
| 1:04.4 | there are a couple of Democrats going after just an absolutely worthless, worthless senator who hopes that Trump has learned his lesson. |
| 1:13.4 | I'm talking about the very concerned Susan Collins, all right? |
| 1:18.2 | This woman just absolutely tries to, she centrist signals and moderate signals, |
| 1:24.8 | but she votes with the craziest right-wingers every chance she can get. |
| 1:29.0 | So this is a real opportunity for Democrats, pumps, I think, to come in. |
| 1:33.2 | We have two candidates here. |
| 1:34.4 | We have Graham Platner. |
| 1:35.8 | And then we also have Janet Mills. |
| 1:38.2 | And so let's go ahead and pop up here. |
| 1:41.0 | We have some slides about Janet Mills. |
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