Madeleine Dean: “I am dumbfounded. No one who is serious about stemming the scourge of violent crime would make such an appeal.”

I think it’s so distressing all of the stories that are coming out, and they’re more and more it seems by the hour.

I’m relieved. I'm sure Mainers are relieved. He disqualified himself.

We aren't voting on bills right now that would reduce the sky-high costs of food, fuel, health care, or addressing the President's war in Iran. Instead, we're considering a bill that was deadly and dangerous in the past, in the ‘70s.

I said in my mind he had disqualified himself in at least two ways. One was the choice to have a Nazi emblem tattooed to his body. And the other was, of course, the credible allegations of his abuse of women.