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'People Are Being Robbed': Maine's Platner Credited for Showing Democrats How to Win Back Trump Voters (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 1 month ago by PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au to c/politics@piefed.social

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au -1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, and then he quit saying that what he was going on there was fucked up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Platner

Graham Platner (born 1984 or 1985) is an American oyster farmer, harbormaster, and military veteran who is running in the Democratic primary in the 2026 United States Senate election in Maine, seeking to unseat Republican Susan Collins. His platform emphasizes progressive and populist policies focused on the working class, including support for affordable housing, universal healthcare through Medicare for All, expanded veterans' benefits, and higher taxes on billionaires and large corporations. His campaign has received significant national attention, and has drawn comparisons to that of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

In 2018, Platner returned to Kabul, Afghanistan, for about six months as a State Department security contractor with Constellis, the private military company formerly known as Blackwater.[14][7][15] He returned to Maine the same year, saying he quickly grew more disillusioned with the military and what he called fraudulent funneling of taxpayer money to private defense companies.[9][6]

IDK dude. I get your point, and it's a little confusing how it took him four tours and a stint with Blackwater to become disillusioned, but I wouldn't automatically start up the "Bernie is a Zionist" purity testing against him quite yet.