Today’s notice: Pointing fingers in Maine. MAHA is having a great week. The acting secretary of labor is expected to remain acting for a while. Maximum redistricting after the SCOTUS ruling? And: President Chuck Grassley?
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The Maine event: How much responsibility does Chuck Schumer bear for the party establishment’s utter faceplant in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary? And what does it mean that his top recruit for the ’26 cycle, Gov. Janet Mills, failed to excite Democratic voters in the party’s premier flip opportunity?
A team of NOTUS reporters set out to answer these questions in the hours after Mills dropped out of the race and the Democratic establishment reluctantly rallied around Graham Platner, the populist sensation who had just cleaned its proverbial clock.
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Team “Schumer blew it” sounds like this: Mills “got utterly fucked over,” one Democrat said. She was heavily recruited to run by Schumer, and her supporters expected a lot of help from his forces. But as Platner picked up steam, outside ad spending from establishment groups to blunt his rise never materialized. “She never should have had to go negative on [Platner] on her own,” the Democrat went on. “That is insane. He abandoned her after begging her to run. Shameful.”