Graham Platner Got Everything He Wanted. Is That Good for Democrats’ Hopes of Retaking the Senate?

Politics Maine was supposed to be Democrats’ marquee Senate primary. It ended before a single vote was cast. May 02, 20265:45 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Sophie Park/Getty Images and Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images. Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers the most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, which wonders why there was no speculation about whether the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner attack was a conspiracy to secure more material for political newsletters. And now we’re not even writing it up! What do we write up instead? Another American right was lost to the pen of Samuel Alito. Jim Comey spent a day at the beach, and you won’t believe what happened next. Trump is mad at Germany and so may remove American troops from there. (Don’t you usually keep troops around the people you don’t like?) Let’s begin with a double dose of the sudden political developments in Lobster Country. 1. Janet Mills A shocking upset. Last fall we described the Maine Democratic Senate primary between Gov. Janet Mills and oysterman Graham Platner as the “marquee” and “blockbuster”