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Meet the Democrats gunning to replace Graham Platner in a crucial Senate showdown
Platner's grassroots volunteer leaders warn the Maine Democratic Party their support hinges on progressive commitments
By Paul Steinhauser , Jessica Sonkin Fox News
Published July 14, 2026 1:56pm EDT

PORTLAND, Maine - The clock is quickly ticking in the race to replace former candidate Graham Platner as Maine's Democratic Senate nominee in the race to challenge longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

Candidates gunning to win the Democratic nomination must file with the state party by Wednesday to get on the ballot. Eight Democrats have filed so far to run for the nomination, which will be determined by 601 voting delegates at a July 25 convention held by the Maine Democratic Party.

Platner, a populist Democrat who was backed last September by progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders, won the early June Democratic primary in a landslide. He was challenging Collins in a high-profile, combustible and expensive race which is one of a handful that will determine if the GOP holds onto its slim Senate majority in November's midterm elections.

A combat veteran and oyster farmer whose campaign caught fire, Platner steamrolled the Democratic establishment. But even as he crushed the competition to capture the nomination, Platner had already been forced on defense in the wake of a slew of scandals.

Platner dropped out of the race last week, amid calls from top Democrats in Maine and across the country to immediately exit the race following an explosive report containing an allegation of rape from a woman he previously dated.

Facing a July 27 deadline to replace Platner with a new nominee, the state Democratic Party announced that all 16 Maine counties will convene special nomination meetings this weekend where participants will vote to elect delegates.

Those delegates will meet the following Saturday, July 25, in Bangor, Maine, to vote for the party's nominee.

Ahead of the vote, a "statewide network of volunteer leaders who organized, knocked doors, hosted events, and built the loop grassroots infrastructure behind Graham Platner's campaign," in an open letter on Tuesday to the state party, made it clear that the organization they built "does not transfer automatically to whoever the Party selects."

"It will only continue to exist, and only continue to be deployed, for a nominee who publicly and explicitly adopts" a list of core progressive commitments that they listed.

The letter is a sign of the tough task ahead for whomever wins the nomination to quickly unite the different wings of the Democratic base.

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I'm hoping that Ms. Collins will squeak by and get re-elected.

But I sense that she's vulnerable this time...

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Nolte: Maine Democrats About to Install Bullying Manbaby as Platner Replacement

Troy Jackson is about to be installed as the Maine Democrat Party’s U.S. Senate nominee even though he has a reputation as a yelly manbaby.

That’s not me claiming that. That is, of all outlets, the far-left Washington Post…

“Troy Jackson, a powerful Maine legislator now running for Senate, once angrily threw a water bottle in a meeting after he couldn’t persuade a lawmaker to vote his way,” reports the Post. “He yelled at another lawmaker [and] cursed and shouted in a meeting with the speaker of Maine’s state House, until she kicked him out of her office.”

The report adds that “his temper was a feature of his leadership, and one that Democratic lawmakers discussed among themselves as a problem and even raised with the governor.”

So, let me get this straight…

Maine Democrats pump up not-an-oyster farmer Graham “RapeyMcNaziTattoo” Platner, who goes on to win about 70 percent of the primary vote. Then, as soon as the polls go soft for Graham “PortaPottyMcWhacker” Platner, Democrats immediately overturn the election by forcing him out.

And now, Democrats are preparing to replace the guy chosen by voters for a guy not chosen by voters who is infamous for temper tantrums, including the angry hurling of objects at people.

Oh, boy, does the following sound familiar! Remember how Democrats attempted to gaslight us with the claim that all of Platner’s flaws — including a freaken Nazi tattoo and extramarital sexting on a predator site — just proved he was a regular guy? Here they go again…

“Jackson and his allies have acknowledged that he can lose his cool, but they have painted this quality as a by-product of his passion for policies to improve the lives of people in Maine,” the Post reports.

Yeah, okay.

We’re all passionate. We all lose our tempers. We all say things we regret. This is different. This guy has a reputation for bullying and intimidation, and if you look at him, it seems pretty obvious he uses his bulk as an intimidation tool to back up his crybaby temper tantrums.

Here are my favorite parts of the Post story:

    His intensity often veered into behavior that people working in Maine politics at the time characterized as bullying…

    Jackson worked with numerous women and frequently clashed with them.

    One person … said they felt “nervous” and worried to be in the room with him, because his outbursts could escalate so quickly.

    Talbot Ross, a civil rights advocate and the first Black woman elected to the Maine legislature, kicked him out of her office.

    “He was an inch from her nose, screaming and hollering and haranguing her[.]”

Classic bullying tactics.

Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins was supposed to be easy pickings this year, but once again it appears as though the Democrat Party’s complete inability to understand that being a Normal Guy means more than just looking like a Normal Guy will be their undoing.

Then there’s the fact that Collins is no pushover.

No one likes a bully.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/21/nolte-maine-democrats-about-install-bullying-manbaby-platner-replacement/
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