He Said What He Said: Sen. Kennedy Flattens Schumer, Platner As the 'Platner Wing' Tightens Its Grip

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As I wrote on Thursday, the results of the Maine Democrat Senate primary made clear that a majority of the Democrats who voted wouldn't care if Graham Platner kicked puppies, crushed butterflies with his bare hand, and stole old ladies' purses, much less be a Nazi sympathizer and allegedly physically abusive towards a woman, provided he does his part in giving the party control of the U.S. Senate.

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While he has his true believers in the Senate, like Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), others, like Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have been purposely avoiding saying too much about Platner, and his Republican colleague, Sen.John Kennedy (R-LA), knows exactly why.

Kennedy has made it a point this week on at least two occasions - one on the Senate floor and one in a Fox News interview - to point out how it's now the "Platner wing" of the party that controls it, and also to warn folks exactly what that entails and the kind of person Graham Platner is and what he represents.

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In his Senate floor speech, Kennedy observed that Schumer was now "taking his orders from the Graham Platner wing of the Democratic Party" because that wing of the party "is in control." 

"Many members of Democratic leadership are scared to death, and they're gonna do what the Graham Platner wing of the party wants," he went on to say. They want to "burn it down, they want chaos, because they think it will help them win the midterm elections."

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And just who is this guy, the leader of this wing of the Democrat Party? Kennedy explained it on Fox News as only he can and in a way that would make a great campaign ad for Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who Platner (and Schumer) would love to defeat:

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Mr. Platner seems to be one of the new faces of the loon wing of the Democratic Party. Clearly, he’s angry. When I see him on TV, he always looks like he’s straining to have a stool.

His supporters say no, you don’t understand him. He’s just idiosyncratic. I guess he goose steps to the beat of his own drummer. But his history shows there’s more than that.

I mean, this guy makes...he makes Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez look like Aunt Bea in Mayberry. Mr. Platner’s comments about black people, his cavalier attitude towards rape, apparently his stated preference for masturbating in a porta-potty, his contempt for America.

I think at one point he implied he wished the Taliban were better shots to kill our people. This is not normal. I mean, this guy is 10 exits past normal.

Then he says well, that was in my past. I’ve been born again. But just recently we found out through his wife that Mr. Platner has been sending sexually explicit messages, digital messages, to other women.

He calls it sexting. He says, 'Oh, there’s nothing to see here.' Well, Anthony Weiner was sexting. We all said what is that about, and we found out he was sending pictures of his penis to young women.

Now, I’m not saying Mr. Platner is doing that. I don’t know. But he needs to release those text messages. I want to know if he’s a sexual predator! I mean, the people of Maine deserve to know. This guy is...he’s like a Saturday Night Live skit!

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In another clip, Kennedy talked about how, though the Republican Party was not perfect, "the other side is crazy. I mean this is not normal behavior," he said of Platner and the Platner wing of the Democrat Party:

And more to the point, Maine voters - outside of the ones who don't care about the Nazi tattoo, the sexting, the Kik account, and the allegedly physically abusive behavior - deserve to know the truth about the guy who wants to be their next senator, because he certainly hasn't been keen to tell it. And because he won't, it's up to the people who do respect the voters of this country and love America to get the word out that this guy is seriously bad news.

Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will determine the fate of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must maintain control of both chambers of Congress.

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