Graham Platner's Senate Campaign in Maine Faces Controversies as Democrats Eye Senate Majority
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Nikki McCann Ramirez, Jack Crosbie
Front-window bakery material. Catches the eye, delivers the goods.
Summary
Democrats are targeting Maine as a key battleground for flipping the Senate, relying on scandal-plagued progressive candidate Graham Platner to win. Platner, an oyster farmer and presumptive Democratic nominee, faces a series of controversies that threaten his campaign and Democratic hopes of taking the Senate majority.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledDemocrats are well positioned to take back the House of Representatives this November, but the Senate is a whole other dogfight.
Virtually all roads to a Democratic Senate majority run through Maine.
That means, as things currently stand, they desperately need a scandal-plagued oyster farmer named Graham Platner to win.
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