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favoredponcho@lemmy.zip to politics @lemmy.world · 11 hours ago

The Attacks on Graham Platner Are Politically Motivated

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The Attacks on Graham Platner Are Politically Motivated

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favoredponcho@lemmy.zip to politics @lemmy.world · 11 hours ago
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Graham Platner’s critics are operating with a politically motivated double standard.
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    Its weird that your appeal to truth contains some pretty big false statements. Why not just link to the article you are referencing:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/graham-platner-maine-senate-former-girlfriends.html

    A) The person you are talking about isn’t the only person saying this. B) She didn’t found shit, but is indeed a Republican. She also provided a text message from before he was even running for office which corroborates her statement.

    But you don’t need to just believe what I said because I included a source because ONE OF US is not interested in relying on made up shit.

    This dude is better than Collins, but he probably isn’t better than the Democrat that he beat in the primary.

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      According to a 2018 New York Post article, Fifield and Inez Stepman, who at the time worked at the Independent Women’s Forum, co-founded a group titled Ladies for Kavanaugh in support of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination

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      This dude is better than Collins, but he probably isn’t better than the Democrat that he beat in the primary.

      Janet Mills is the least popular governor in the country, in no small part because she’s put her personal Zionist agenda ahead of the state’s political and economic needs time and time and time again.

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      the Maine primary is tomorrow (June 9)

      https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_Party_primaries_in_Maine,_2026

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        Platner is unopposed because his Democratic opponent withdrew after getting funding pulled from the DNC. Weird you don’t know that.

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          Platner is one of four candidates on the primary ballot: Costello, Mills (yes she suspended her campaign but she’s still on the ballot), and the write-in candidate LaFlamme. Surprised you didn’t know that given it’s right there in the link I provided.

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            She “suspended active campaigning due to lack of funds”

            Which is a sore losers way of saying she withdrew.

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              yes indeed, that is what I also said along with a source corroborating both that statement and the fact that she is still on the ballot and thus can be voted for, along with 2 additional other people, meaning Planter is not, in fact, unopposed in the primary which is going to happen tomorrow nor has he actually won it yet. The polling absolutely suggests that Planter will win it. But he hasn’t actually won it yet.

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