My name is ______ and I'm supporting Graham Platner for Senate. Yes I've seen the reddit posts, yes I've seen the tattoo, and those things are bad, but what's even worse is allowing Susan Collins to be a rubber stamp on Trump's agenda that harms women and children and working people. The importance of stopping trump outweighs Graham's transgressions.
See how easy that is?? You don't have to debase yourself. Just be honest about it.
#MaineSenate
TPSI: “Shockingly, when voters are informed of sexual assault rumors, Platner improves, leading by 8.1%”
“This confirms suspicions that Democrats may be looking for their own Trump. Even more surprisingly, 75% of voter age 18-29 support Platner after being informed of the rumors.”
If Peltola had chosen to run for the open-seat governor position, she'd probably be the odds-on favorite to win.
And governor is a much better job. More personal power, Dems actually weirdly enough have coalition majorities in both chambers of the AK legislature, and no 12+ hour flight to DC (and remember her husband passed away recently in a plane crash.)
But she challenged an incumbent for Senate, which is much more important nationally. An extremely noble personal sacrifice. Many Dems (cough cough Whitmer, the 10 million people running in ME gubernatioral) could learn from her.
🚨Report: Texas “Republican” Senator John Cornyn doesn’t say if he will vote to confirm acting AG Todd Blanche for Attorney General:
“The problem with the office of Attorney General is that there's basically, well, you are a member of the president's cabinet. But you're also the chief law enforcement officer for the country. And you're not the president's lawyer. So I'll be asking some questions about getting commitments on that.”
CNN: Platner’s campaign just announced raising over $200,000 in a single day following the New York Times article — their best fundraising day since Janet Mills dropped out of the Maine Senate race
New NYT article reports Graham Platner, Maine senate candidate, used to keep an AR-15 lying around his apartment and would sharpen an axe while watching TV
According to an ex he often said, "If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them" "not in sexual way, not in a gay way.”
“He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant" she said, describing him as having a “warrior ethos”