Messina: “I can’t believe Platner and his team think that they get to decide who the Democratic nominee is. ...This really pisses me off, it’s just insane. When you cause this, you don’t get to decide. When you’ve lied about your actions for months, ...you don’t get to decide"
"What do you make of where things stand right now in Maine? Well, look, I can't believe that Plattner and his team think that they get to decide who the Democratic nominee is. This, Amy, really pisses me off. It's just insane. When you cause this, you don't get to decide. When you've lied about your actions for months, including personally to all of us, you don't get to decide. When you are trying to figure out if you're staying in this race, you don't get to decide. It's like he thinks that he's going to make this decision. The fact is, and Amy talked about this in some of her tweets today, he's been underperforming more than every other Senate Democratic candidate in America. When you look at this state, which is a seven or eight point Democratic state, when you look at the national mood, he still only had a two point lead. He had his own problems. It's not like his people are saying, well, he's got this movement and everyone needs to get his movement. Democrats in Maine have to decide who is going to be the best candidate to win in a general election, and that is someone who can win women voters. Susan Collins continues to overperform in these elections because she overperforms with women voters. It's not about a Graham-Plattner endorsement. It's about who the women of Maine want to see as their next United States senator."
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Messina: “I can’t believe Platner and his team think that they get to decide who the Democratic nominee is. ...This really pisses me off, it’s just insane. When you cause this, you don’t get to decide. When you’ve lied about your actions for months, ...you don’t get to decide"