Pollster Jim McLaughlin told Newsmax Thursday it is clear Graham Platner’s views and behavior make him unfit to serve in the Senate.

Platner overwhelmingly won the Maine Democratic primary on Tuesday and will challenge longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who was first elected in 1996.

Collins is the only Republican senator in a state won by Kamala Harris in 2024 up for re-election this cycle.

McLaughlin bashed the consultants who encouraged Platner to run.

"They don't sound like the people that we hang out with," McLaughlin said on "Ed Henry: The Big Take."  "They don't sound like middle class Americans."

"They were out of touch," McLaughlin added, noting Platner once wrote that the older he gets, the more communist he becomes.

"That’s how crazy these people are. They’ve gone past socialists," he said.

"They’re DSA people, Democratic Socialists of America," McLaughlin continued. "They actually recruited a candidate who admits that he's a communist."

The pollster also noted that Platner called Jesus Christ a zombie and the Blessed Virgin Mary a skank.

"We all know what he said about poor rape victims. This guy is twisted," McLaughlin said. "He is not fit to be in the United States Senate."

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