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Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« on: May 29, 2026, 08:16:53 am »
Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
The progressive candidate backed by Bernie Sanders holds 51%-42% edge over the six-term Republican senator
By Paul Steinhauser Fox News
Published May 28, 2026 11:27am EDT

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 holds its slim 53-47 majority in the Senate in this year's midterm elections.

Platner, a progressive candidate backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, stands at 51% support among likely Maine voters, with Collins at 42%, in a Pine Tree State poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire. Six percent of respondents were undecided, with 2% backing other candidates.

The survey is the latest public opinion poll to indicate Platner, an oyster farmer and Army and Marine veteran who served in combat in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, leading Collins, a moderate Republican who is seeking a sixth six-year term in the Senate representing left-leaning Maine.

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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2026, 02:23:29 pm »
This is gonna be tough for Collins.

Like that guy said...
"When people see a weak horse, and then they see a strong horse, they will choose the strong horse..."
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2026, 02:47:06 pm »
Polls! :3:
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2026, 03:28:53 am »
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People really do not appreciate how insane it is that Platner went to work for Blackwater—which had to change its name because it was so reviled due to scandal—and now is trying to pass himself off as some poor kid who was sent off to war.

https://twitter.com/RCPolitics/status/2060125561406529639
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2026, 02:26:56 pm »
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🚨Report: Maine Senate Democrat Candidate Graham Platner's wife discovered sexually explicit in several messages with multiple women on his phone and alerted campaign staff during the early stages of his campaign
Via: The Wall Street Journal
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2026, 03:01:17 pm »
Achtung, baby!

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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2026, 03:40:55 pm »
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Lefty Senate candidate Graham Platner reportedly sexted numerous women on hookup app Kik - and wife flagged it to campaign https://trib.al/pUVfEra



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https://x.com/nypost/status/2060843545540370926
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2026, 04:09:41 pm »
Nazi Platner isn't going to win.    These pollster are smoking crack
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2026, 05:29:35 pm »
Ok, but Collins is a RINO (though the article calls her a moderate) and she normally votes along with the DEMS anyways.  If she loses her seat, that's one RINO down. What's really the downside, other than Maine electing a liberal pervert??
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2026, 07:40:36 pm »
Quote from: libertybele on May 31, 2026, 05:29:35 pm
Ok, but Collins is a RINO (though the article calls her a moderate) and she normally votes along with the DEMS anyways.  If she loses her seat, that's one RINO down. What's really the downside, other than Maine electing a liberal pervert??

Collins can be counted on 50% of the time.  Herr Platner can be counted on 0% of the time.
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2026, 04:08:53 am »
Reminds me of a hostage video.

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Platner cucked his wife and then made her post a video defending him. Absolute sociopath.
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https://twitter.com/grahamformaine/status/2060870067189932409
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2026, 05:36:52 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on May 31, 2026, 07:40:36 pm
Collins can be counted on 50% of the time.  Herr Platner can be counted on 0% of the time.

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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2026, 01:55:36 pm »
WILD: Graham Platner's staff physically shield him and bodycheck reporters out of the way at the end of the rally.
Smallest Platner event we have ever been to in terms of crowd size.

https://twitter.com/TheMaineWire/status/2061134853387554911
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #13 on: June 01, 2026, 06:12:32 pm »
Democrats Are Trying to Pull a Biden on Platner But the Window Is Narrow

Fernando Ehrenreich  |  May 31, 2026

The party that spent a decade casting itself as democracy’s last line of defense has a candidate problem in Maine, and its solution is to make sure the candidate its own voters chose never reaches the November ballot.

Graham Platner, the oyster farmer and Marine veteran who buried the establishment’s preferred choice by nearly thirty points, is suddenly the target of a coordinated effort to shame him out of a race he is about to win. The mechanism is narrow, the timing is suspicious, and the goal is unmistakable.

Maine Democrats want to do to Platner exactly what national Democrats did to Joe Biden in 2024, swap out the inconvenient nominee for one the people in charge prefer, and call the result a rescue.  .  .  .

.  .  .  Maine law gives the party a path, but a tight one. A candidate nominated at a primary may withdraw by 5 p.m. on the second Monday in July, which this year falls on July 13. The state party committee then has until 5 p.m. on the fourth Monday in July to name a replacement on the general election ballot.

The entire scheme depends on a single fact that no statute can supply. Platner has to quit on his own. There is no provision to strike a healthy nominee against his will. The party cannot fire him. It can only persuade, pressure, and shame him into walking away after he has already won.  .  .  .

https://discernreport.com/democrats-are-trying-to-pull-a-biden-on-platner-but-the-window-is-narrow/
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2026, 06:19:55 pm »
Maine Dem candidate Graham Platner sends wife to defend against claims he was posting on creepy hookup app: ‘Like a hostage video’

Ryan King  |  May 31, 2026  |  12:49 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Embattled Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner put forward his wife to answer for him after he was outed as having a profile on a creepy hookup app, Kik — as the Dem candidate himself stays silent.

Amy Gertner, who married Platner in 2023, said that she was “deeply hurt” about the campaign’s former political director, whom she tipped off about the sexting, confirming the messages to the press.

The video drew widespread criticism from observers who said it appeared that Platner was letting his wife take the heat for him.

“It looks and sounds like a hostage video,” one X user posted. “Blink twice if you need rescuing, Amy.”

The randy oyster farmer is believed to have had sexting affairs with up to a dozen women, according to reports.

“It makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip, instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on, like healthcare and education and childcare,” Gertner groused  .  .  .

https://nypost.com/2026/05/31/us-news/graham-platners-wife-defends-against-claims-he-was-posting-on-creepy-hookup-app/
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Re: Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
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I suspect Platner has always had issues:
After he protested the Iraq War-
He volunteered for the Marines.
After 4 yrs of active duty,
he enlisted in the Maryland Army NG and deployed to Afghanistan.
After that, he applied to and was hired by military contractor Blackwater (Constellis) and returned to Afghanistan.
10:42 AM · Jun 1, 2026


And this guy claims a 100% disability from his military service - for what, I don't know. PTSD - and yet he returned voluntarily as a contractor?
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