Graham Platner

Deleted Reddit posts and tattoo controversies blunted the Democrat's U.S. Senate candidate's surge of early momentum. Now the oyster farmer and military veteran is talking more about his battle with PTSD and reconciling his part in "stupid foreign wars." The people showing up to his town halls are still curious, some even more devoted.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner said the tentative deal to reopen the federal government is a disaster, and will have real consequences for working people.

Ben Chin of the Maine People's Alliance will become U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner's new campaign manager. He arrives as the campaign has been beset by staff upheaval.

In the posts he criticized police and wrote that white rural Americans “actually are” racist and stupid. Platner said the posts were a result of loneliness and disillusionment after he left the military, but don't represent who he is today.

Health care advocates joined U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner today in Bangor to highlight the impacts they say the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" passed this summer will have in Maine.

The well-known progressive from Vermont also used the event to boost two Democratic candidates for statewide office in Maine: former Senate President Troy Jackson, who is running for governor, and U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner.