NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! BLUE HILL, Maine — He’s been facing one of the roughest stretches of his bid for the U.S. Senate, but Graham Platner on Tuesday captured the Democratic Party’s Senate nomination. Platner, a military combat veteran and oyster farmer who is backed by progressive champions Sens. Bernie Sanders … Read more
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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Collins and Platner both won their primaries on Tuesday, … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., dodged a series of questions Tuesday about abuse allegations facing Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, offering no response when Fox News Digital asked whether he believed the women accusing the candidate of misconduct. As Sanders waited for an elevator at the Capitol, … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Polls have closed in Maine, which along with South Carolina, Nebraska and North Dakota are holding primary elections on Tuesday. And the race grabbing the biggest national spotlight is in Maine, where it’s judgment day for Graham Platner, the embattled Democratic Senate candidate in left-leaning Maine who … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., broke with fellow Democrats on Tuesday and refused to defend embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. Platner has emerged as one of the party’s fastest-rising political figures, attracting national attention for his populist message and outsider image as he seeks to flip a … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A top Jewish Democrat and member of the House Intelligence Committee called for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to exit the race, adding that if the scandal-plagued oyster farmer were running in New Jersey, he would be “buried under the Meadowlands.” Rep. Josh Gottheimer, the subject of … Read more
Voters in four states are casting their ballots in Tuesday’s primaries, but most attention is on Maine’s Democratic Senate primary where Graham Platner is favored to win despite a string of controversies. CBS News’ Fin Gómez and Anthony Salvanto have more. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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 … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Graham Platner shouldn’t be elected to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate, a former high-level staffer for the embattled Democratic candidate told voters just hours before polls opened in the state’s Tuesday primary. Genevieve McDonald, once a Maine state representative who worked briefly as Platner’s campaign director … Read more
Maine’s Graham Platner remains defiant for Democratic primary despite Nazi tattoo, other scandals – CBS News Watch CBS News Graham Platner remains defiant as he heads into the Maine Democratic Senate primary despite multiple controversies emerging linked to his past. CBS News’ Caitlin Huey-Burns reports. Source link