Jul 13 from https://www.thenation.com/ Left

A View From Maine

Politics / A View From Maine Life after Platner. Graham Platner during a primary-election-night event in Blue Hill, Maine, on June 9, 2026. (Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Living in Maine, as I do, which is usually far off the beaten political track, I seldom have a front-row seat to the kerfuffle of the day or a chance to assess how accurately the mainstream media covers those...

Jul 12 from https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ Right

AOC Knew Better Than to Back Platner

Wednesday night marked the end of Graham Platner. In a winding, 11-minute diatribe, the self-styled working-class oyster farmer running in Maine for the U.S. Senate denied sexual assault allegations, casting himself as the victim of a wide-ranging conspiracy plot by Democratic Party operatives eager to supplant his progressive political campaign. Platner played the victim, claiming the damage...

Jul 11 from https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ Right

Platner’s Fatal Dependence on Party Elites

Much has been written about the socialist shooting star that was Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s Senate candidacy, which raises questions for anti-establishment political figures of all stripes. Perhaps the biggest question is how Platner could so thoroughly rout his party’s governing class—he received nearly 72 percent of the vote against the state’s sitting governor, who was backed by...

Jul 10 from https://slate.com/ Left

Graham Platner: The Nazi tattoo was a warning from the beginning.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Graham Platner announced he will drop out of the race to be senator of Maine. Twin scandals, one alleging sexual assault and the other nonconsensual condom removal, arrived back-to-back this week, finally sinking a candidacy that had long been plagued by them. His party...

Jul 10 from https://www.thenation.com/ Left

The Graham Platner Fiasco Proves Messiah Politics Is No Alternative to a Failed Establishment

Politics / The Graham Platner Fiasco Proves Messiah Politics Is No Alternative to a Failed Establishment Democratic leaders have rightfully lost credibility. But that’s no excuse for political adventurers to seize the moment and pump up false saviors. Graham Platner’s video dropping out of the US Senate race in Maine. (Graham Platner / X) The least surprising news about Graham Platner is...

Jul 09 from https://www.thenation.com/ Left

Graham Platner’s Downfall Was All Too Predictable

Politics / Graham Platner’s Downfall Was All Too Predictable Inexperienced and improperly vetted, the candidate was a disaster in the making. U.S. Senate candidate from Maine Graham Platner during a campaign event with the Maine AFL-CIO in Portland on May 1, 2026. (Graeme Sloan / Getty Images) Anthony Weiner must be gnashing his teeth. Al Franken too. Weiner lost his political career for...

Jul 09 from https://www.motherjones.com/ Left

Graham Platner Says He’s Out. Now What?

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Graham Platner, the scandal-ridden populist Senate candidate from Maine, suspended his campaign Wednesday night. His announcement came two days after a rape allegation against him was made public in a Politico report, and prominent Democrats—many of whom had looked the other way...

Jul 08 from http://freebeacon.com/ Right

2028 Democrats Who Disgraced Themselves Most for Graham Platner

'A man who not only has the values, but a man who believes in accountability' Graham Platner easily won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine despite an array of scandals involving a Nazi tattoo, antisemitic horseplay, offensive online commentary, flagrant lying, serial infidelity, and domestic abuse. He ended his campaign on Wednesday after an ex-girlfriend's credible rape...

Jul 08 from https://theintercept.com/ Left

It’s Time for Maine to Ditch Platner — But Not the Politics That Won Over Voters

Graham Platner during a primary election night event at the YMCA in Blue Hill, Maine, on June 9, 2026. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voice on the Left.” The day Graham Platner became Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee, he spoke behind a podium bearing his indignant campaign slogan:...

Jul 08 from https://theintercept.com/ Left

Graham Platner’s Exit From Senate Race Leaves Maine Dems “Hobbled” in Scramble for New Nominee

In group chats of progressive activists and political operatives concerned with the state of the Senate race in Maine Wednesday morning, a link to an anonymous Google Doc was making the rounds. It disavowed Graham Platner, the disgraced Democratic nominee whose campaign was throttled by a rape accusation on Monday, and called to replace him with Troy Jackson, a recent gubernatorial contender...

Jul 07 from https://www.newyorker.com/ Left

Graham Platner’s Point of No Return

A little more than a month ago, the Times published a bombshell story about Graham Platner, a military veteran and an oysterman who was the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine. The paper shared the accounts of three women who had dated Platner within the past fifteen years and had found his behavior unsettling. The over-all picture was not without nuance, but the story contained...

Jul 07 from https://theintercept.com/ Left

The People Who Stood By Graham Platner — Until He Was Accused of Rape

The Democratic Party is once again in upheaval as Graham Platner, its unconventional nominee to knock out longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, faces a rape accusation that threatens to end his once-powerful campaign and endanger Democrats’ chances of flipping a key seat in the November midterm elections. Platner, a Marine veteran and oyster farmer whose anti-establishment campaign...

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