Graham Platner

And that's hitting deep in the core of a lot of the main psyche.

Oh, there's definitely a lot of shakiness and a lot of concern, a lot of disappointment.

One voter told me they were heartbroken about it because they really thought that he was different, that he was not a typical politician.

And especially the way he responded to these.

did that first round of scandals with the Reddit posts and the tattoo, he really took ownership.

As I read through them, I read things that I absolutely do not agree with.

I read through and I see things that, words and statements that I abhor.

I also see the trajectory of my life.

And it was part of this whole redemption arc that he had built about how he was a combat veteran with PTSD in a really dark place, and then he came home to Maine, got involved with his community and his business, met his now wife, and was a different man.

Coming back to Maine, moving back to my hometown,

reconnecting with the community that I'm from, building real friendships, building real networks, real relationships with people.

That helped cut my disillusion.

I went from thinking that people were bad to knowing that people are good.

But the latest round of scandals kind of punctured that narrative because he only got married in 2023, and those sex messages were, you know, from just a couple years ago.

He wasn't a young man in his early 20s.

And so I did hear a lot of disappointment about that and also a lot of cynicism from people who thought he was different, thought he was...

a guy that they could really believe, and relegating him back to, oh, he's just a politician like the rest of them.

And he also, the way he responded to those guys, he didn't really take as much ownership.

The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times ran stories without any evidence besides the gossip from a former staffer.

I'm sorry, that's...