Winning by 50 against Governor Suspended Her Campaign and Random McRandomface—when you’re still spending millions of dollars and calling in last minute favors just for the primary—REALLY doesn’t tell us very much.
Also this part: All these people—from the consultants to Elizabeth Warren and her little clique of Senators— have a game plan they want to run everywhere, and admitting they fucked up here would've been a set back they couldn't afford.
Hence those folks all scrambling last week to save him.
Again.
Also because multiple times, the people who were really invested in that stupid assessment doubled and tripled down, while the people who knew better basically just mumbled non-endorsements and said shit like "It's For The Voters of Maine to decide" while out-of-state money flooded the state
I have found it strange how its fallen on us, the public, to do the throat clearing "well I don't think he's a Nazi" rather than the burden ever really having fallen on the guy with a Nazi tattoo to offer strong counter evidence, evidence at least as strong as his Nazi tattoo.
No matter how many times you look at it, you will never not be stunned that the thing that inspired Warren, Smith, and co. to make their “Senate Fight Club” was the fact Schumer wouldn’t clear the field for their preferred unqualified unvetted rondo to take on Collins www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
“people who have skull and crossbones tattoos which are also embraced by nazis”
Oh, FFS.
Try and have some self respect for yourself as a journalist, if you can’t be arsed to find any respect for your audience enough to not piss on their leg and tell them it may be similar to sparkling water.
If you’re still going “it's also not clear to me that he knew it was a nazi tattoo” at this point, when we have texts from months before he announced as evidence he knew, and with his having no answer to that evidence besides yet another not credible denial, then it’s because you want it to be so.