Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff
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The Platner Post-Mortem: Rieckhoff Takes On the DNC Establishment
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July 13, 2026
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13:54Now PlayingPaul Rieckhoff joins former DNC Chair Jamie Harrison, Bangor Daily News political editor Michael Shepherd, and Puck's Leanne Caldwell for a no-BS post-mortem on the Graham Platner collapse in Maine — the Nazi tattoo, the Reddit posts, the botched vetting, and the deeper problem the rigged two-party system keeps producing. Paul makes the case that Maine's 300,000 independents are the group nobody is actually running for, points to Seth Bodnar in Montana as the outsider veteran model that can actually win in states like Maine and Nebraska, and calls for a reckoning inside a Democratic Party that keeps losing and keeps blaming everyone but its own leadership. Independent is an attitude. Stay vigilant.
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