AXIOS (Hans Nichols) - Dems hit by last-minute Platner anxiety before Maine Senate primary
Democrats have been caught in the bind Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sought to avoid when he backed Gov. Janet Mills over Graham Platner in the Maine Senate race. Why it matters: Democrats must now support an untested and largely unvetted outsider as he faces intense media scrutiny over his relationship with women in a must-win race. - Maine's Democratic primary to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R) in November is in eight days. Zoom in: Practically, it might be feasible to swap out candidates. Politically, it will be close to impossible. - "I've heard some of my colleagues' concerns about what we've read in the papers," Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), who backed Mills, told Axios. "But at the end of the day, we've…
Democrats have been caught in the bind Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sought to avoid when he backed Gov. Janet Mills over Graham Platner in the Maine Senate race. Why it matters: Democrats must now support an untested and largely unvetted outsider as he faces intense media scrutiny over his relationship with women in a must-win race. - Maine's Democratic primary to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R) in November is in eight days. Zoom in: Practically, it might be feasible to swap out candidates. Politically, it will be close to impossible. - "I've heard some of my colleagues' concerns about what we've read in the papers," Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), who backed Mills, told Axios. "But at the end of the day, we've…Open