Graham Platner Is Headed to the General | Political News
With 42 % of precincts reporting, Decision Desk HQ has projected that Democrat Graham Platner has received the Maine major for U.S. Senate. Platner handily bested his opponents, garnering 75 % of the vote. Gov. Janet Mills, who suspended her marketing campaign for Senate when Platner started to surge forward in polling and assist, was still on the poll and garnered 20 % of the vote. The other Democrat candidate, David Costello, trailed in third place with 7 % of the vote.
Decision Desk HQ initiatives Graham Platner wins the ME US Senate Democratic Primary#DecisionMade: 9:07 PM EDT pic.twitter.com/gDHqJEMsND
— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) June 10, 2026
As RedState reported, Platner‘s candidacy has been scrutinized and scandal-plagued virtually from its inception. As our Senior Editor Joe Cunningham wrote:
The column runs through the full scandal file. There is the chest tattoo bearing a Nazi Totenkopf image that Platner claims he didn’t know was a Nazi image until the fall of 2025, by which level he was already working for Senate. There are the inappropriately express texts despatched to as many as a dozen girls after his 2023 marriage, his Kik profile still lively when reporters discovered it. There is the New York Times report on former girlfriends who described risky relationships, including Lyndsey Fifield, who said Platner “twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out.”
Add the years of sexist and racist Reddit posts and the exaggerated working-class background, and you have got a candidate whose whole biography is under lively revision.
Despite these crater-sized and landmine-filled potholes in his candidacy, Platner has maintained the endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Democrat Congressman Ro Khanna (CA-17). They have been Platner’s staunchest defenders, even after other key Democrats, like Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), have inspired the occasion to cut its losses and back another candidate.
Platner was effusive in his thanks to his supporters in Maine for having his back, and he promised to have theirs as he goes ahead in the race to win the U.S. Senate seat at present held by Republican Susan Collins.
Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will decide the destiny of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must preserve control of both chambers of Congress.
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