Right Now with Perry Bacon: Why Janet Mills Dropped Out of Maine’s Senate Race
4/30/202637 min
Perry Bacon speaks with former NBC News correspondent and editor for the Midcoast Villager in Maine, Alex Seitz-Wald. Right Now with Perry Bacon: a twice-weekly show diving into U.S. politics, democracy, and the authoritarian threats facing America. Each episode, Perry strives to go beyond daily headlines and actually connect the dots to what’s happening in America.
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First 90 secondsPerry Bacon· Host0:00
[upbeat music] This is Right Now with Perry Bacon, presented by the DSR Network. [upbeat music] Good morning, everybody. I'm Perry Bacon. I'm the host of the New Republic show Right Now. Uh, we have some breaking news. This is unusual today, but, um, our guest is Alex Seitz-Wald. He's the deputy editor of the Midcoast Villager, which is a paper in Maine, and he was already scheduled as a guest, and we were gonna talk about Janet Mills versus Graham Platner. But it appears, based-- that, that is no longer a race going on. Uh, Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, has decided to suspend her campaign, her primary campaign, you know, conceding that facility to Graham Platner is leading and likely to win. So Alex, uh, wrote the story for, uh, Midcoast Villager, and he, he's here to join us now. Alex, welcome.
Alex Seitz-Wald· Guest0:49
Hey, Perry. Thanks for having me. Yeah, the, the news gods must have known that, uh, we had this scheduled and to drop it right before we got online.
Perry Bacon· Host0:58
So this happened about, like, about an hour ago, about, like, b- around nine o'clock Eastern Time. So from what I can see, and Mills has made some comments, I'm not sure if it's a statement or 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 blood? Does she not have enough money, or is she g- going to lose and kind of ducking that? The primary is on June ninth, and she's been down in the polls.
Alex Seitz-Wald· Guest1:25
Yeah, I mean, this is a massive, totally unexpected development.