Trump Derangement Syndrome Was Behind the Platner Disaster
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Left: President Donald Trump at the White House, May 11, 2026. Right: Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner at a townhall event in Appleton, May 2, 2026.(Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters; Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)
It'd be nice if Democrats would acknowledge that their hatred of Trump has driven them to search for and embrace many questionable candidates this year.
The implosion of Maine's U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner’s campaign has been an easily predicted event for months. But not only did Democrats at every level fail to uncover his background; after they learned about it, they waved it away. As late as April 18, after many of the revelations about him had come out, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) called Platner “my kind of man.”
Democrats were so desperate to find an “authentic” progressive with blue-collar roots to take on incumbent GOP Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) that they threw due diligence out the window.
The influential progressive strategist Morris Katz ...
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