Revision History

Graham Platner, the frontrunner for the Democratic Senate nomination in Maine, faces a cascade of scandals — abuse allegations from former partners, sexually explicit text messages, and a Nazi-linked tattoo — that have split the party between those who view him as too important to abandon in a winnable race against Susan Collins and those who see him as a liability. The resulting rift has exposed factional tensions between progressive leaders like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who maintain their endorsements, and moderates like John Fetterman, who has called Platner "baggage that incidentally might be a candidate," while the DSCC has remained conspicuously silent.