Among his many other talents, our friend David French might have the gift of clairvoyance. “Against [Ken] Paxton. Against [Graham] Platner. LFG,” he declared—on Thursday, two days before the latest scandal involving Maine’s presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate emerged.

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