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Maine voters set up a Senate showdown: Graham Platner versus Susan Collins

It’s official: Republican Sen. Susan Collins will face Democrat Graham Platner this fall, NBC News projects, in what will be a marquee election in the fight for control of the Senate. Collins and Platner both won their primaries on Tuesday, in a predictable result. Collins, first elected to the Senate in 1996, ran unopposed for re-nomination as she seeks a sixth six-year term.

NBC News 17h ago

Platner wins Maine Democratic Senate primary, vows to oust Collins

Platner wins Maine Democratic Senate primary, vows to oust Collins Platner wins Maine Senate primary despite controversies, setting up a key race against Republican Susan Collins. Graham Platner, a United States Army veteran and oyster farmer, has won the Maine Democratic primary for the Senate, setting up a high-stakes race against Republican Senator Susan Collins. Platner’s victory on Tuesday came after days of questions over damaging revelations about his past personal conduct,...

Al Jazeera 13h ago

Sen Collins slams Bernie-backed Graham Platner as too far-left for Maine voters

BANGOR, Maine — Republican Sen. Susan Collins believes that Graham Platner, her likely Democratic challenger in November's midterm elections, is too extreme for voters in her New England state. But Platner, pushing an economically populist agenda as he takes aim at corporate influences and advocates for the working class, argues it's moderate Collins who is the "radical" one. With the support of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Ro Khanna of...

Fox News 1d ago

Sen Collins slams Bernie-backed Graham Platner as too far-left for Maine voters

BANGOR, Maine — Republican Sen. Susan Collins believes that Graham Platner, her likely Democratic challenger in November's midterm elections, is too extreme for voters in her New England state. But Platner, pushing an economically populist agenda as he takes aim at corporate influences and advocates for the working class, argues it's moderate Collins who is the "radical" one. With the support of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Ro Khanna of...

Fox News Politics 1d ago

Susan Collins refuses to weigh in on Platner's sexting scandal as Maine voters head to polls

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, repeatedly declined to weigh in on Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner's sexting controversy last week, opting to keep her distance from the escalating scandal as Maine voters head to the polls Tuesday."I really have nothing to add to it," Collins told Fox News Digital when asked about the allegations surrounding Platner, the Democratic frontrunner and her presumed opponent. Collins reiterated that position when pressed further, declining multiple...

Fox News Politics 1d ago

Susan Collins refuses to weigh in on Platner's sexting scandal as Maine voters head to polls

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, repeatedly declined to weigh in on Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner's sexting controversy last week, opting to keep her distance from the escalating scandal as Maine voters head to the polls Tuesday."I really have nothing to add to it," Collins told Fox News Digital when asked about the allegations surrounding Platner, the Democratic frontrunner and her presumed opponent. Collins reiterated that position when pressed further, declining multiple...

Fox News 1d ago

Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll

The intense media scrutiny and Republican attacks facing Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine over his controversial and inflammatory past online comments and his now-removed but well-publicized tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi symbol don't appear to be slowing him down.A new public opinion poll shows Platner holding an upper single-digit lead over longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in a race that is among a handful that will likely decide if the GOP...

Fox News Politics 13d ago

Susan Collins getting reelected is bigger concern than Graham Platner allegations, Texas Democrat claims

Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, claimed on Sunday that Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins concerned her "at an even greater level" than Graham Platner while discussing the latest scandal he is facing. Escobar joined a panel on CNN's "State of the Union" to discuss the allegations of rape fantasies, heavy drinking and violent episodes against Platner made by ex-girlfriends of his to the New York Times last week. As a member of Platner's party, Escobar admitted that the report "concerns" her...

Fox News 2d ago

Democrats’ key to a Senate take-back is mired in scandal as party leaders brush off claims of abusing women and racist tattoo

Democrats’ key to a Senate take-back is mired in scandal as party leaders brush off claims of abusing women and racist tattoo The dead-heat race between Susan Collins and Graham Platner just got a new wrinkle amid a slew of fresh news reports about a Maine oysterman’s treatment of women, as well as his infamous “Totenkopf” tattoo. Eric Garcia reports on the effect of it all on Democrats’ chances to flip the Senate - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments While Maine Republican incumbent Susan...

The Independent World 4d ago

The Hypocrisy of the Democrats Who Defend Graham Platner

Title: The Hypocrisy of the Democrats Who Defend Graham Platner For decades, Nazism and the anti-Semitism underlying it have marked zero on the Kelvin scale of villainy—the metric against which all other forms of evil are compared. This is so well understood that we now have cultural phenomena such as Godwin’s Law, the theory that online debates inevitably lead to Nazi comparisons, and the “everything I don’t like is Hitler” meme. But their existence proves the point: If one wishes to say that something is irredeemably bad, Nazis are the benchmark, the absolute.Yet recently this understanding seems to have grown less universal. Nazi symbolism and more modern versions of the ancient conspiracy theories behind this intolerable ideology have found a degree of toleration within American political movements desperate for shortsighted victories. The underlying hatred that, among other things, motivated the killing of more than a third of all the Jews on the planet eight decades ago is viewed no longer as unacceptable, but rather somewhere on a scale of “problematic” issues that can be either explained away or ignored.The most recent case is that of Graham Platner, the 41-year-old Democrat who is hoping to unseat Senator Susan Collins in Maine. Platner has a unique personal

The Atlantic 12d ago