Voters Take Keys Away From Elder Politician
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> While the major media chews over campaign strategy and timing and what she shoulda woulda coulda done differently, here’s what actually happened: Americans didn’t want her, and they refused to budge. It’s an extraordinary victory of public will.
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> Mills was handpicked by Senate Leader Chuck Schumer himself. Party leadership saw her as their best shot at toppling Susan Collins — the only Republican senator from a state Kamala Harris won. Voters were endlessly browbeat about how inexperienced her primary opponent was, how this race was existential, how a vote against Mills was a vote for the political abyss.
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> **There was a time when that kind of emotional blackmail worked. Not anymore.**
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Crossposted from [https://news.abolish.capital/post/46384](https://news.abolish.capital/post/46384)
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> While the major media chews over campaign strategy and timing and what she shoulda woulda coulda done differently, here’s what actually happened: Americans didn’t want her, and they refused to budge. It’s an extraordinary victory of public will.
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> Mills was handpicked by Senate Leader Chuck Schumer himself. Party leadership saw her as their best shot at toppling Susan Collins — the only Republican senator from a state Kamala Harris won. Voters were endlessly browbeat about how inexperienced her primary opponent was, how this race was existential, how a vote against Mills was a vote for the political abyss.
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> **There was a time when that kind of emotional blackmail worked. Not anymore.**
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Crossposted from [https://news.abolish.capital/post/46384](https://news.abolish.capital/post/46384)