Matt Berg

washington correspondent @crookedmedia • former @politico natsec • signal mattberg.33 • email [email protected]

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@BanquoDyar Not my first report on his string of scandals!
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NEW: Inside Platner’s doomed campaign, warning lights were flashing from the beginning, his former finance director tells me.

Platner's advisers "coaxed" him into running and “really set him up for failure,” said Ronald Holmes III, who shared texts with concerned colleagues.

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How it’s going in Maine:

“Geez, I hope it doesn’t turn into the ’68 convention in Chicago.”

“Campaigns are always like building the plane while you’re flying it, but this is like building it while falling out of a helicopter.”

“No one planned for this.”
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In an October text to Amy Gertner, Platner’s wife, Holmes wrote:

“I’m afraid Daniel has become a singular decision-maker on the campaign and it is very much a point of contention for others on the team.” Gertner replied sympathetically to his concerns.

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After publishing, a campaign source referred me to past reporting on Graham’s reasoning for running and “trying to fight for a politics that puts Mainers first.”

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