Graham Platner’s Plan to Dethrone Susan Collins — and the Democratic Establishment
5/16/20261 hr 17 min
The presumptive Democratic Senate nominee from Maine on his controversies, contradictions and pitch for radical change.
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[Instrumental music] From The New York Times, this is The Interview. I'm Lulu Garcia-Navarro. In Maine, there's a candidate for Senate who's electrifying the Democratic base and worrying the establishment. Graham Plattner is a progressive 41-year-old military vet and oyster farmer. His pitch? Starting a working-class revolution, but he's been dogged by controversy in his short time in the national spotlight, starting with the revelation of a tattoo on his chest that's widely recognized as a Nazi symbol, and continuing with the publication of past offensive social media posts. Now that his primary opponent, Governor Janet Mills, has dropped out of the race, Plattner will be taking on longtime Republican senator Susan Collins, and Washington Democrats are pinning their hopes on him to help win back the Senate in November. Is he ready? I sat down with him to find