Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is pointing fingers at incumbent Sen. Susan Collins’s (R-ME) stock assets as he seeks to shift voters’ eyes from another controversy plaguing his campaign this weekend.News broke this weekend that Platner’s wife previously told his former political director she was aware of sexually explicit messages that Platner had sent to multiple women while they were married. But Platner is hoping to turn over a new leaf, shifting the focus to Collins with a new letter on her financial disclosures and her increase in wealth throughout her time in Congress.“Susan Collins is nearly 100 times wealthier than Graham Platner. The corporations writing her checks are the same ones raising costs for Maine families. And the senator who arrived in Washington with debt in 1996 is leaving—when she loses in November—with a fortune,” Platner’s campaign wrote in the open letter shared with Politico.
Platner’s hit against Collins on her stock portfolio is a safe play among the mainstream Democratic Party, which has been slamming Collins for her stock trading habits over the past year but has also had a hot-and-cold relationship with the controversy-laden progressive Platner campaign.
