Democrats’ predicament with Graham Platner is one of the party’s own making

The Democratic establishment’s early bet on Janet Mills, as its best hope to pick up a coveted Senate seat in Maine , now looks like a clear miscalculation – one that has left the party boxed into a far riskier general election fight than it ever anticipated. By rallying behind the septuagenarian governor, and sidelining Graham Platner for months, party leaders helped create the very predicament they face. …