Time for Democrats To Fret About Platner?

Two major polls of the Maine Senate race dropped this week, and they told the same story: The race is incredibly close, and Democrat Graham Platner has real work to do among the working class. He's running an aggressively left-populist, anti-establishment campaign targeting the billionaire class-and boasts lots of blue-collar appeal-but GOP Senator Susan Collins is way ahead among those voters. Why?

New: Dems Are Going to Freak Out at Latest Maine Senate Poll

‘King of the dirtbags’: Fetterman on Platner’s Kik and ex-girlfriend baggage

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) blasted Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, as the “king of the dirtbags,” highlighting growing tensions within the party after another socialist won a congressional primary in Colorado. After a sweeping win from Melot Kiros, a 29-year-old socialist, in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District over Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and […]

Collins leading Platner by 3 points in Fox News poll

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is narrowly leading Democratic candidate Graham Platner in the Maine Senate race, according to a new survey. The Fox News poll, released Tuesday, shows Collins with a 3-point advantage over Platner. The Lumber State Republican garnered 50 percent support, while the Democrat brought in 47 percent. Despite the incumbent’s edge overall,…

Platner campaign ‘being blown completely out of the water’ by outside GOP spending: Memo

A Monday memo from Graham Platner’s campaign shows the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine is battling an onslaught of outside GOP spending. The memo, obtained by Politico, says Republicans spent $4.3 million on the race between Platner and incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) from last Tuesday through Monday. Collins’s campaign spent $500,000, while PACs…

Poll shows Platner’s oyster-farmer image failing to win over working-class Maine voters

A new poll shows Graham Platner trailing Susan Collins by 21 points with non-college-educated voters despite his oyster farmer campaign pitch.

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Support for Graham Platner Is an Elite Phenomenon

Susan Collins is beating Platner among working-class voters.