Here's What the Maine Democrats Had to Say About the Graham Platner Debacle

Sen. Collins in Worse Trouble After Platner Exit?

The conventional media wisdom is that Maine GOP Senator Susan Collins is sitting back and laughing this week, and well she might be. The collapse of Graham Platner's campaign is an implosion for the ages, and it puts the state's Democrats in a tricky situation they need to navigate skillfully in these next two weeks.

Ratio Alert! The Atlantic Bemoans Graham Platner Making Things Harder for Dems (Cue Norm Macdonald Memes)

Ratio Alert! The Atlantic Bemoans Graham Platner Making Things Harder for Dems (Cue Norm Macdonald Memes)

Opinion: Graham Platner is not representative of America

Of all the reasons that Maine residents were given to vote for Graham Platner in his race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate — and many of them boiled down to beating Donald Trump and Republicans — the most disturbing one came from Bill Maher. After telling his HBO audience ahead of the primary that we need to restore balance in our government, and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that, the talk-show host explained that, actually, we are all Graham Platner...

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...

Voters forced to set aside their disgust and vote party loyalty over principle in Maine and Texas races

The problems for Democrats and Republicans in Maine and Texas mirror each other, but one party could still end up being worse off, writes John Bowden

The race to unseat Susan Collins is resetting around abortion

BANGOR, Maine — As Maine Democrats vie to replace Graham Platner in their state’s Senate race, abortion — a key weakness for Republican Sen. Susan Collins — is set to shape the next phase of the contest, which Democrats view as a prime pick-up opportunity. Collins, whose home state voted for Kamala Harris in the []

Read Graham Platner’s Demented Joke About Beastiality, Necrophilia, And Incest

Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic content and language. *** This is not how I usually start an article, but stop reading if you don’t want a peek inside the demented mind of Graham Platner, the Maine man whom the Democrat Party wants to send to the Senate. Platner posted the following joke on Reddit ...

Republicans see their grip on Senate tighten amid Democrats’ dysfunction in Maine

NEW YORK (AP) — As Democrats scramble to contain a political disaster in Maine, the Republicans on the front lines of the GOP’s fight to hold the U.S. Senate majority are breathing a sigh of relief. For much of the year, Republican operatives have been quietly considering the real possibility that their party might lose [] The post Republicans see their grip on Senate tighten amid Democrats’ dysfunction in Maine appeared first on Loonie Politics.

Heartbreak for Hakeem Jeffries: Another 'Democratic' Socialist Topples an Incumbent—This Time in Colorado

Heartbreak for Hakeem Jeffries: Another 'Democratic' Socialist Topples an Incumbent—This Time in Colorado

Graham Platner’s scandal-scarred campaign was proof Dems will overlook anything in search for their ‘Everyman’

With the Senate campaign of Maine’s Graham Platner blowing up in their faces, Democrats everywhere are giving each other tearful gobs of solace and advice. Some are comparing Platner’s scandal-driven collapse and last-minute withdrawal to the 2024 presidential campaign, when a befuddled Joe Biden withdrew in early July and his vice president, Kamala Harris, was []

The Red Flag That Led to Graham Platner’s Implosion Was Hiding in Plain Sight

Maine’s populist Senate candidate made a costly miscalculation when he doubled down on his troubled background.

Maine Democrats walk a tightrope: Spurn Platner while courting his voters

Maine Democrats eyeing a Senate run following Graham Platner’s withdrawal want nothing to do with any would-be endorsements from him. But they still need his voters. Those vying for the nomination now have the delicate task of shunning the disgraced former candidate accused of rape, which Platner vehemently denies, while not offending his progressive supporters []

Lindsey Graham Taking a Sledgehammer to Dems During the Kavanaugh Hearings Was an All-Time Great Moment

Lindsey Graham Taking a Sledgehammer to Dems During the Kavanaugh Hearings Was an All-Time Great Moment

Todd Starnes Claims That 'Scandalized' Republicans 'Get The Boot'

Reacting to the allegations against Graham Platner, Todd Starnes laughably claims that whenever there is some sort of a scandalized individual in the Republican Party, they get the heave-ho, they get the boot. We certainly saw that with, for example, Matt Gaetz.

A Graham moment of greatness

Senator Lindsey Graham’s passing on Saturday evening represents a great loss to our public life. Senator Graham had a special moment of greatness in the 2018 Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of then Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Senator Graham not only rose to Kavanaugh’s defense, he called out his Democrat colleagues on the committee for the disgusting charade they had performed in the attempted assassination of

These 12 Democrats could replace Graham Platner

Maine Democrats must act quickly to find a new choice after controversial Senate candidate Graham Platner withdrew from the race. Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/07/07/who-could-replace-graham-platner/90835572007/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube Sign up for our newsletter for the day's top stories, from sports to movies to politics to world events: https://profile.usatoday.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/

Townhall: Here’s More About Graham Platner’s Perverted Reddit History

Here’s More About Graham Platner’s Perverted Reddit HistoryAmy CurtisTownhallJune 25, 2026 Maine’s Democratic Senate candidate, Graham Platner, continues to create problems for his party. He’s got an extensive history of perverted behavior, including his confession of pleasuring himself in porta-potties, this shocking post, and other now-deleted Reddit posts, as well as serious allegations of domestic []

McConnell hospitalization, Graham’s death shrink GOP’s slim Senate majority

The weekend death of GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham has made passing the Republican agenda in the Senate even more tenuous for the GOP conference – considering Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell was already in the hospital and will not return to Capitol Hill any time soon. The GOP conference holds 53 seats, but without Graham and []...Click to read more

2028 Democrats Who Disgraced Themselves Most for Graham Platner

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 appears poised to end his candidacy after an ex-girlfriend's credible rape accusation—amid sagging poll numbers and a looming deadline to select a new candidate—finally compelled Democrats and sympathetic journalists to abandon ship.The post 2028 Democrats Who Disgraced Themselves Most for Graham Platner appeared first on .

Top Graham Platner Strategist Draws Laughter After Response to ‘Unflattering’ Question

Morris Katz was in the hot seat Sunday as he fielded questions regarding Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner. Katz, a top strategist for Platner, was on “The Weekend: Primetime” Sunday night as he faced

More Democrats call for Platner to drop Maine Senate bid after sexual assault accusation

The list of Democrats calling for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to withdraw continues to grow a day after a woman he once dated accused him of sexual assault. Platner denies the allegation and said he was reflecting on his path forward. Amna Nawaz discussed the future of the race with Steve Mistler of Maine Public Radio.

Maine Democrats to the disastrous sex pest and the consultants who brought you John Fetterman: go away and let us try to beat Susan Collins

Catastrophic Senate candidate Graham Planter continues to refuse to drop out because he and his Beltway dipshit advisers think they’re entitled to handpick his replacement. The party’s response to this is exactly correct: Wow, this message from the Maine Democrats account on X. It sounds like Graham Platner is trying to stay actively involved in [] The post Maine Democrats to the disastrous sex pest and the consultants who brought you John Fetterman: go away and let us try to beat Susan Collins appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.

Another Sad, Cautionary Tale of Failed Democratic Candidates - Andrew Gillum Ring a Bell?

Another Sad, Cautionary Tale of Failed Democratic Candidates - Andrew Gillum Ring a Bell?

An Insufferable Lecture from Thom Tillis

Photo Credit:Image: Thom Tillis. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. Gage SkidmoreThe senator from North Carolina came out swinging against Pete Hegseth. He ended up looking like a loser.

As the dam breaks on Graham Platner’s Senate candidacy, what happens next in Maine?

We’ll learn soon enough whether the candidate reads the writing on the wall, but in the meantime, there are two overarching questions to keep in mind. The post As the dam breaks on Graham Platner’s Senate candidacy, what happens next in Maine? appeared first on MS NOW.