Graham Platner’s Advisers Urged Him to Be ‘Conciliatory’

“Graham Platner went down swinging — even as some of his political confidants urged him not to,” Politico reports.

“Several of the embattled Maine Democrat’s closest advisers pleaded with him Wednesday to strike a ‘conciliatory’ tone in the announcement terminating his Senate campaign.”

“But the progressive bucked their advice and made it a condition of dropping out of the race that he get free rein to assail establishment Democrats and blame them for the ignominious end to his rapid political rise.”

Playbook: “The result was an 11-minute, vertically shot video in which a visibly emotional Platner raged against the unstoppable party machine that, he claimed, finally brought him down.”