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“I was already pretty cynical about money and politics and that has that that cynicism has just been supercharged. I mean it is like and I like it and the problem is like you clearly need to raise money to compete for this stuff but there is just a whole apparatus that seems to exist just to suck up money.”
“the biggest lesson I have learned is structurally it's borderline impossible for regular people to pull this off. Like if you're a regular human being with not a lot of money and having lived a pretty normal life who doesn't want to like just get your entire existence ripped to pieces.”
“And in my experience like negative TV ads, I don't think they actually moved the needle much in Maine. In 2020, the Sarah Gideon race outspent the Collins race almost 3 to1. An immense amount of money was spent on negative ads about Susan Collins. It didn't do anything.”
“The way Maine tends to work is that people trust their friends and their neighbors more than they trust uh TV ads from political groups. And part of our strategy quite frankly is just to cut through all of it by engaging as many people as possible and and personally interacting with as I do three to six public events a day.”
“There have been multiple attempts to fix this and the governor is opposed to all of them both as attorney general and as governor. So like to me that is also a pretty fundamental difference around I don't know like a foundation of political philosophy.”
“I do know that some people made a lot of money off the wars that I fought in. And it wasn't the young men and women who did the fighting. It's defense contractors and it's uh it's folks in political power like it really is.”
“It was this moment for myself and a few other people where we we watched this happen and we it only happened because it was no organizing versus a little bit of organizing. They had people to knock doors and this guy had himself. It's a small town schoolboard race and there was no apparatus to support him.”
“I'm pretty I'm convinced we're not just going to beat Susan Collins in November. I think we're going to trounce Susan Collins.”
“For every workingclass person we lose, like out in the countryside, we're going to gain two voters in in the suburbs and it didn't happen. Donald Trump won and then he won again and we lost a lot of seats around the country. Like so clearly that math did not pan out.”
“And as people begin to realize that this right-wing populism, it's not making things cheaper, right? And it's not reopening hospitals and it's not making your health insurance company any less awful to deal with.”