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Susan Collins Gets NIGHTMARE News As Platner Replacement Already Leading Her
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6:02Now PlayingMaine Senator Susan Collins gets news she feared as Graham Platner's likely Democratic replacement, Troy Jackson, is already leading her in the polls and her favorability rating tanks even lower with her disastrous ICE shooting response. Sharon Reed and Tehran Von Ghasri break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Platner’s Replacement Already Leads Susan Collins in Critical Maine Senate Race
"Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-ME) re-election path got a bit more uphill with the exit of Graham Platner, as a new poll shows the scandal-plagued oyster farmer’s replacement is a few points ahead of her.
Platner won the Democratic primary to take on Collins for Maine’s Senate seat, but his campaign was plagued by a staggering series of scandals, including a Nazi Totenkopf tattoo he later had covered, offensive Reddit posts, accusations he was sexting women other than his wife, and then, most disturbingly, on-the-record accusations from two of his ex-girlfriends that he had sexually assaulted them.
He denied the allegations, but the dam of support for his campaign broke, explosively. Democrats rushed to revoke their endorsements and the Maine Democratic Party urged him to step aside. Earlier this month, Platner posted an eleven-minute-long video insisting the accusations against him were “all false,” bitterly casting blame on the “corporate media system” and “political establishment,” before announcing he was “suspending campaign operations.” After initially looking like he might drag his feet until the last possible moment (the deadline for him to withdraw and get his name off the ballot was July 13), Platner filed his paperwork with the Maine Secretary of State Friday afternoon."
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