A disjointed party is trying to decide how to handle the latest damaging revelations about the controversial Maine Senate candidate
Platner's supporters entered the Friday rally through a phalanx of cameramen asking what they thought of their candidate now. They were a little tense when the candidate started talking about his scandals. But many later insisted that all of it was a test from DC.
Graham Platner would have been dismissed as unacceptable in the Democratic party just a decade ago.
According to the standards Democrats set in 2018, Graham Platner must drop out of the 2026 Senate race in Maine. The fact that Democrats haven’t mobilized to force him out of the race already proves that their “believe all women” canard was always a political sham. The New York Times has covered a set of allegations made against Platner […]
Voters are casting ballots in primary elections Tuesday in Maine, one of a handful states that could decide which party controls the Senate after this year’s midterm elections. Democrats believe they have their best shot in years to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins, but their presumptive nominee has been mired in controversy. Graham Platner is a 41-year-old oyster farmer and Marine veteran who entered the race as a populist progressive. Democratic Governor Janet Mills, who was urged to run by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, suspended her campaign in April amid polls predicting Platner would easily beat her — though she remains on the ballot. Platner’s past, however, has cast a shadow on his campaign. The initial controversies focused on offensive posts Platner made on Reddit years ago and on a tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi symbol, which he has since apologized for and covered up. In recent weeks, sexually explicit text messages came to light that Platner had sent to women after getting married in 2023. The New York Times then reported that several women who had dated Platner recalled “unsettling” and abusive behavior by him, which he has denied. For more, we speak with Kim Villanueva, national president of the National Organization for Women PAC, which supports Mills in the primary, and Maine resident Shay Stewart-Bouley, executive director of Community Change, Inc., who says Platner is speaking to people’s material concerns and that voters may be “forgiving” for his “messy” personal life.
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If the media had one standard, this interview would have been treated as a major political crisis. Instead, it became another example of how the left protects its own when power is on the line. The post Graham Platner Responds to Serious Allegations on MSNOW—Leftist Hosts Seemingly Move On Like It’s Nothing (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The scandal-plagued Maine Democrat has no record to run on, so voters have only his word. But he has left them no reason to trust anything he says.
Platner's rocket to stardom reflects something ugly that's developed, not only on the right but the left as well. As of Wednesday morning this week, even after his sexting scandal broke, I knew two things about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner: I was glad I didn't have to vote in Maine, and that if I did, I would probably hold my nose and vote for Platner.