IHIP News: The Midterm Race is HEATING UP As Graham Platner and Janet Mills FIGHT IT OUT in Maine!

All right, let's talk about the. Democratic Party and where we go after. we lost an election to a man, a. convicted felon who tried to overthrow. the federal government. To me, Trump's. victory is more of an indictment on the. Democratic party than anything else. the. fact that we couldn't beat him and you. can say the candidate or this or that, but I think it's that the Democratic. party had morphed itself into something. that wasn't that different from the.

Republican party. The only difference. were some social issues like, okay, we're for gay marriage and we think a. woman has a right to choose. But when it. came to business and capitalism and. regulations and consumer protections, there was very little difference because. both parties receive donations from the. same entities. And so this is an. interesting case study that's coming and. it is the a Senate seat in Maine. And of. course, you know, there are a couple of.

Democrats going after just an absolutely. worthless, worthless senator who hopes. that Trump has learned his lesson. I'm. talking about the very concerned. >> Susan Collins. All right. This woman. >> just absolutely tries to she centrist. signals and moderate signals, but she. votes with the craziest right-wingers. every chance she can get. So this is a. real opportunity for Democrats pumps I. think to come in. We have two candidates. here. We have Graham Platner and then we.

also have Janet Mills. And so let's go. ahead and pop up here. We have some. slides about Janet Mills. Janet Mills is. the current governor of Maine and she. keeps vetoing worker protections. Okay. So this is something right here pumps. where you know the Democratic party. after this last race really moved the. base a lot quicker than the. establishment realizes and you have a.

base within the Democratic establishment. that or the Democratic core of voters. that is curious that reads and explores. and you and I both have moved. extensively further to a more. progressive foothold because it's Okay, why did we lose? And so you have a guy. named Graham Platner who's running. against uh Janet Mills and he is an. economic populist, total progressive, no. blank checks to Israel, all of the stuff.

you want. He has in his past, this is a. guy who's never been a politician. before. He has some Reddit threads and. he has a tattoo had a tattoo that he got. when he was serving that was some for. sort of Nazi um looking not like the. swastika and he's covered the tattoo. atoned for it apologized. and he's still way way up in the race. and the Democratic establishment is.

endorsing this Janet Mills and she is 77. years old. Jacob Jacob and Magazine says. Pumps as a as governor of Maine, Janet. Mills has spent the past six years. vetoing collective bargaining rights, tax increases on the rich, she's vetoed, and other progressive measures. Democratic leaders badly want her to win. the party's nomination for Senate over. Graham Platner pumps.

Okay, a couple things here. Number one, I want to say when I, you know, we've. had Graham Platner on the podcast, I. found him to be refreshing, outspoken, and I liked his ideals. Then when all. of, you know, the tattoo stuff, the. Reddit threads came to his attention, it. was like a gut punch. But then I think. if we don't allow people to evolve, especially me who has evolved, who I. mean, I don't have a I didn't have a. racist tattoo, but I was raised in. racism, misogyny, all the things. So, I.

have to give him permission to evolve. That's one thing. And then I look at. Janet Mills, who I was extremely. impressed with that she kind of got in. Trump's business at the very beginning. and said, "We're not doing that in. Maine." You know, but here's the deal. At the end of the day, if you cannot. protect the working class and you are. not for raising taxes on the rich, then. get the [ __ ] out because we have real. problems. People have affordability. issues. People cannot feed their. families. They young people cannot buy.

homes. We're the first gener or this. generation coming up is not going to be. more prosperous than their parents. And. the reason is we treat workers like. [ __ ] Full stop. We've demonized unions. It's ridiculous. And I do want to add, pumps, I think your point about your own. evolution from a very racist upbringing, normalized racism, praised racism. >> to now a progressive fighter on a huge.

platform and the evolution I've seen in. you personally over 20 plus years. if. you decided to run today, um, which of. course you wouldn't, but if you did, of. course I'd vote for you. I'd be your. campaign manager. >> Thank you. >> But I, um, there would there could be. stuff that comes up. There's stuff that. could come up for for everybody. I think. what we have to look for in people is. can you evolve or are you rigid? Are you. an evolver or are you a black and white.

thinker? And what I see in this instance. is that the Democratic base is rigid. Mhm. >> They want the establishment to win. again. She's voting against a tax. increase on the rich. She's not voting. to protect workers. She is a corporate. Democrat. And then you have Graham. Platner who's a breath of fresh air. And. I just think that anybody who's grown up. in the last 20 years with all of this. social media. Everybody's done stupid. [ __ ] on social media before. Now, the.

Nazi tattoo is unacceptable, but it's. not like he's lying about it or saying. he's a Nazi. He's covered up. He atoned. for it. We have to accept it because the. people who I see are the Nazis are over. on the right like that young Republican. group. That's very problematic. Um, Kylie, next slide. At the time when Democratic voters are. now demanding new anti-establishment. leaders, the Democratic Party's power.

brokers are pushing a 77year-old. candidate for a key 2026 Senate race who. spent the last the past six years as. governor vetoing, collecting, bargaining, all of this. She's she's done all of. these things. And you have members of. the Democratic establishment endorsing. her. I even think Andy Basher, Kylie, you can fact check this. the Democratic. uh governor of Kentucky has endorsed. Janet Mills. So, there is going to be a.

really good um battle, a healthy battle. in the Democratic party right now. We. have the people who want to preserve the. this these losing tactics for us and you. they're going out and endorsing a 77y. old. They're not getting it. Here we. have Berser and Gretchen Whitmer endorse. Janet Mills in Maine Senate race. This. to me, you guys, this type of stuff. right here, you're seeing people already.

jockey. Am I going to be a conservative. Democrat that's a preservationist that. preserves the same systems where we lost. a race twice to a [ __ ] lunatic, convicted felon [ __ ] Are we going to. listen to our [snorts] voters and grow. the party? This is the problem with the. Whitmer and Andy Brashier thing. They. think by doing this centrist dim, they're going to convert the elusive.

moderate voter instead of focusing on. getting the people in our own party. because we have the numbers out to vote. in the way that Zoron Mom Donnie did. Well, and another thing is, and I agree. with everything you said, we need to. stop running old [ __ ] people that are. going to die in office. That has bitten. us on the ass in the House of. Representatives time and time again. Supreme Court. I'm not a math major. She'll be 83 or 84 when this is done. Like, come on. Let's get together. Look.

at the difference between Jerry Oonnell, the one that died in on the oversight. committee, ranking member, just milked. toast, did whatever, and Robert Garcia, badass in your face. We want the [ __ ]. documents. Like, it's a it's null and. void. That's the dumbest thing I've ever. heard. So, these primaries pumps, I. think they're going to be super. interesting that it we're going to see. where the heart and soul of the. Democratic party is. I think I know. where it is because we're out every day.

on the internet with real uh voters that. are very very very engaged. And the. overwhelming information that I see is. nobody likes a corporate Democrat. Nobody. >> And so it's interesting that Berser and. Whitmer so quickly came out and endorsed. her um when the primaries are quite a. ways away. And so I just want to say. that I personally am for Graham Platner.

and we have to see people with the. ability to evolve. I know my good friend. Pumps is evolved so much politically and. I believe a lot of people have a lot. I. think that the in the age of Trump, you've either become more radicalized to. the conservative or more radicalized to. the progressive and more empathetic. You've become cruer or kinder. And with. the kindness that we have over on the. here on the left, pumps, we always have. to remember it's a [ __ ] you kindness,

too, because we have to fight. We have. to fight these [ __ ] because nothing. feels better than beating Republicans, right, Pumps? >> I completely agree. And I'm just. wondering if Whitmer and Bashier. endorsed her because she like they're. friends through the Governor's. Association. I don't know. That might be. wrong. >> Oh, that's a that's a pretty good point. That could be. But still, I think that I. think it's the. >> it's [ __ ] She's going to be 84. No. >> Yeah. I know. No offense to any of our. boomer viewers. >> No offense at all. >> No offense because, you know, boomers.

have fought a lot of good fights, but. it's time to pass the baton. All right, that's all we have for this episode. Like, subscribe, comment. We'll be back. later with more news.