Source: New York Post
Originally Published by: Maine contender to replace Platner grilled on response to public health crisis CNN grills Dr Nirav Shah, citing senator who blasted him in social media post Rogan says Trump ‘f—ed it up,’ may have handed country back to the Dems in 2028 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declined to comment on whether the collapse of former Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign reflects a broader problem within the progressive movement, instead saying in an interview published Thursday that it was time to “bring this chapter to a close. ” During an interview with NY1’s Errol Lewis, the host noted that Platner’s downfall had sparked a national conversation about whether progressives had moved too quickly to embrace a candidate who was “simply unfit” for office. “There’s a national discussion that this has triggered about whether or not the push by some progressives to sort of push the traditional mainstream Democrats aside … they came up with a candidate who was simply unfit or not prepared for the responsibility of making it all the way through the campaign,” Lewis said before asking whether that was an “occupational danger for progressives.
