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GRAHAM PLATNER: Maine's Insurgent Senate Candidate
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February 4, 2026
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31:50Now PlayingI'm joined by Graham Platner, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maine's Democratic primary who says he's "running against the billionaire class." He's an oyster farmer and military vet whose background includes war, local government, and community organizing. His platform takes on concentrated wealth and corporate power and calls for Medicare For All and other pro-worker policies. As of this writing, he's beating establishment candidate Janet Mills in the polls—but that could change once the big money starts rolling in.
Our half-hour-plus conversation covered many topics, including his controversial past comments and this question: How do we know that he won't become another candidate who's absorbed into the Democratic establishment's "Borg hive mind" as soon as he goes to Washington?
“If the only way forward is to become a John Fetterman, I’ll go back to my oyster farm.”
Platner has also said he was "very, very angry... that they sent me to fight in these goddamn wars." I asked him, has the country fought any better wars than these in the last 75 years? His response: "There is no such thing as a better war.”
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