Graham Platner
Graham Cunningham Platner is an American oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Maine, seeking to challenge incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins.
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Platner, a socialist candidate in Maine's Democratic Senate primary, won his race despite Sen. John Fetterman publicly calling him a 'creeper' and suggesting Nazi sympathizer ties.
Platner's win is used as proof that the Democratic Party is no longer a centrist institution but a vehicle for radical leftists, and that internal Democratic warnings from figures like Fetterman are too little, too late.