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Tamara Keith and Carrie Dann on calls for Platner to exit

Season 2026 Episode 138 | 8m 24s

NPR’s Tamara Keith and Carrie Dann of the Cook Political Report join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including Democrats in Maine scrambling and calling on Graham Platner to drop out of the Senate race as a sexual assault accuser comes forward, the direction of the Democratic Party into the midterms and what happened in Washington during the nation's 250th anniversary.

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