Maine Senate Gamble Raises Questions About Standards

The Platner problem: What went wrong in Maine?

Elections are akin to horse races. Like a bettor with a large bankroll, a political party has a vested interest in backing the right horse. And while political consultants are thick on the ground in Washington, and while the sophistication of their tools — polls, demographic analyses, social media operations — trumps that of touts at the track, one has to wonder what happened this year in Maine, where the Democrats chose to back an odd horse. My…

Kansas Democrats suffer from a reverse Maine problem. Too many are running for U.S. Senate!

U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine and his wife, Amy Gertner, celebrate in Blue Hill after unofficial results declared him the winner of the Democratic primary on June 9, 2026. (Photo by Emma Davis/Maine Morning Star)Kansas Democrats face a big challenge heading into the August primaries. They have too many people running for U.S. Senate and too few running for other critical offices, notably governor. At present, a staggering 11 Demo…

Biden Spox Goes Scorched Earth On Platner: To Accept Him Is ‘An Indictment’ Of Dems

Kate Bedingfield said that prominent Democrats refusing to disavow Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner — over several scandals and allegations — amounted to an “indictment” of the party. Bedingfield, who served as communications director for former President Joe Biden, addressed the issue on CNN’s “The Arena,” telling host Kasie Hunt that she believed at least part of the problem could be chalked up to sexism. WATCH: 💥NEW: Former Biden Offic…

Maine Senate gamble raises questions about standards

The Democratic Party’s approach to Maine’s Senate race has sparked a debate that extends well beyond the state’s borders. At the center of the controversy is Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, whose campaign has been dogged by a series of…

Post-Platner Democrats must ask: ‘Are we the baddies?’

“Are we the baddies?” That line from a famous comedy sketch came to mind this week as Democrats struggled to embrace Graham Platner, the Nazi-tattooed, Hamas-praising, veteran-bashing, sex-texting, self-described Communist who was just nominated to be the next U.S. senator from Maine. The hilarious sketch from the British show “That Mitchell and Webb Look” portrays two Nazi soldiers…

Platner espugna il Maine: la corsa al Senato tra ombre personali ed echi di Trump e Sanders

“Ho commesso degli sbagli nella mia vita, sbagli di cui mi pento… ma dai quali continuo ad imparare. Sono lungi dall’essere perfetto, ma ogni giorno cerco di diventare un po’ migliore e un po’ più gentile del giorno prima”. Così Graham Platner il giorno della sua vittoria alle primarie democratiche nello Stato del Maine per un seggio al Senato. Platner ha continuato dicendo di credere “al cambiamento in politica e a quello del Paese, e che bisog…