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‘Shut This White House Down’: Graham Platner’s Maine Win Tests Democrats’ Strategy 

Mehek Cooke, the Daily Signal’s senior national security and legal analyst, explains the fallout from Senate candidate Graham Platner’s win in the Maine Democrat primary. This transcript has been slightly edited for clarity.

Graham Platner just revealed the Democratic Party’s emerging midterm agenda: permanent resistance. Platner won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Maine by roughly 72% of the vote. So, he survived, as every voter has seen across America, months of damaging stories involving online comments, explicit messages, a Nazi tattoo, and continuing later to uncover that there have been serious allegations involving the treatment of women, multiple women.

Platner has denied these allegations of physical abuse, but the most revealing part of this is his statement of his campaign—and it had nothing to do with the scandals, nothing to do with what Americans were hearing about the man he is. It was his explanation of what Democrats should do if they regain power in Washington.

Platner said Democrats need a theory of power, and then he went on to describe it: use committee hearings, use investigations, and use subpoenas. Haul Trump administration officials before Congress day after day after day to halt any progress. Keep the White House so occupied that it cannot function, that it strictly can only respond to these subpoenas and these hearings.

And that deserves a lot of attention because Platner is actually selling Democrats a governing philosophy that’s built around paralysis. Resistance used to be a reaction just to President Donald Trump, but now resistance is becoming the product of the Democrat Party. This is the Democratic midterm pitch that’s taking place right here, and it’s revealing in real time: Give us power and we can stop the other side from using theirs.

And once that becomes the........

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