{"id":150,"date":"2026-06-10T04:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2026-06-10T04:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:21:21","slug":"graham-platner-wins-maine-senate-primary-now-comes-the-hard-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Graham Platner Wins Maine Senate Primary. Now Comes the Hard Part"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tIt\u2019s official: the Democrats are heading to the midterms with an oysterman from Maine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=148\">Trump Brings His Habit of Calling Black People Low IQ to the NBA Finals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nGraham Platner, the dark horse candidate who bulldozed his way past Governor Janet Mills, the Democratic Party\u2019s preferred candidate for Senate, won the state\u2019s barely contested primary on Tuesday night despite a laundry list of scandals and controversies. Unless those crises compound enough to force Platner to drop out of the race, he\u2019ll go to the polls in November as the Democrats\u2019 best hope for retaking the Senate, in a highly competitive race with incumbent Senator Susan Collins.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI\u2019m humbled and proud to officially be your Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate to take on Susan Collins and the billionaire class she represents. Together, we will win this seat back for working Mainers,\u201d Platner said in an X statement. \u201cThank you, Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPlatner\u2019s road to the nomination hasn\u2019t been easy. With little institutional backing, Platner started his campaign with an open appeal to frustrated voters on social media. Platner\u2019s ease on camera and plainspoken message quickly captivated viewers around the country, and the resulting flood of small-dollar donations made him an actual factor in a race that most assumed would be handed to Mills. Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Platner in August of last year, bringing a political legitimacy to his campaign and aligning him firmly with the kind of outsider, against-the-machine politics that Sanders has represented inside the Democratic Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tAt the end of April this year, Mills suspended her campaign, clearing the way for Platner\u2019s nomination. She remained on the ballot in Tuesday\u2019s primary, but garnered only 18.7 percent of the vote versus Platner\u2019s 74.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=146\">One Story I Wrote Haunted Me. So I Kept Chasing It Down<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut Platner\u2019s past has consistently reared its head. In October of last year, Platner faced intense criticism when he revealed that he had gotten a tattoo of a Nazi symbol during his time in the military. Platner mostly weathered that scandal, blaming the poor decision on youth and ignorance, and had the tattoo covered up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tReporters digging into Platner\u2019s past also discovered a long history of uncouth and politically incorrect social media posts, including a lengthy archive of Reddit posts. He has also come under fire for more recent indiscretions, including extramarital sexting and reports that he had behaved in an \u201cunsettling\u201d manner in past relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe biggest question in this race is whether there are more damaging stories for Platner that have yet to be revealed. His campaign, thus far, has made the calculation that none of the scandals have been fatal. But Platner is already slipping in some polls, with one putting his lead over Collins at just a few points, 51-49 percent, as of early June. And Collins, who has represented Maine in the Senate for nearly 30 years, has consistently outperformed bad polling when it comes down to the actual election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe latest polls are still fresh, and we have a long way to go before November. If Platner keeps his nose clean and campaigns hard, the numbers may come back up. But either way, there will be no easy win for Democrats come November: the hardest part of Graham Platner\u2019s career is yet to come.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=144\">\u2018Going Home to Die\u2019: People With Eating Disorders Need Special Care. 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