Graham Platner had more red flags than a prison soccer match

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36. You're setting up a false choice

The party leadership looked at an octogenarian first term and thought, "Voters will love this!"

Voters did not love this. Democratic voters increasingly do not love this. President Biden faced 2/3 of Democratic voters telling him for over a year running for one more term was a bad idea.

It's almost as if running people who should be retired in front of an increasingly Millennial and Gen Z electorate is not a winning decision.

You can bemoan it all you want, but we should be in the business of making choices to win elections. If the party leadership did not want Platner or another progressive, they needed to recruit better choices.

They did not. That's on them.

And the voters let them know it.