Embattled Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign team includes an interesting cast of characters.From the Democratic Socialists of America couple who knocked on his door and recruited him to run to a pivotal adviser who helped elect New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani last year, here are some members of the crew responsible for Platner’s rise from obscurity to his now-uncertain future as the apparent nominee.
Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan.
Platner recounted his first meeting with Moraff and Fan during a recent appearance on The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart.
“Last summer, end of July, some people came to my house,” Platner told Stewart. “They had been in Maine for a few months … looking for someone to run for U.S. Senate against Susan Collins.”
Platner, who last week denied allegations of sexual misconduct on top of mounting controversies uncovered from his Reddit account and other past public comments, said Moraff and Fan were “looking specifically for a kind of working-class person on working-class economic policies.”
