Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner released a new populist advertisement on Monday, leaning into his anti-oligarchy message as he turns the page on another controversy that hit his campaign this weekend. Despite news breaking this weekend that Platner had previously sent sexually explicit messages to multiple women while married to his wife, who knew about the texts, Platner came out on Monday on the offensive. He has fired off a letter targeting the financial disclosure receipts of his opponent, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), and has released the new advertisement aimed at firing up Maine’s working-class voters.“For decades the powerful have taken piece by piece, store by store, hospital by hospital, shore by shore,” the Platner campaign ad says. “They have taken, they took so much they began to think we didn’t even exist at all. But they don’t know Maine. They don’t know the power that we have here. We are taking back what is ours.”
GRAHAM PLATNER HOMES IN ON SUSAN COLLINS’S FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES AFTER WEEKEND PLAYING DEFENSE OVER EXPLICIT TEXTS
Platner has fielded controversy after controversy throughout his campaign. From addressing the sexually explicit messages over the weekend to addressing a now-covered-up skull tattoo resembling Nazi SS imagery, Platner has managed to stay up in the polls against Collins as he relies on his leftist, populist message to carry him through each scandal. Like President Donald Trump’s, Platner’s past scandals haven’t seemed to stick or matter much to his voters.
