Graham Platner

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2,222 appearances 59 recordings 20 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Up First from NPR · Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

When Americans look around and see everything getting harder, and then they also see Elon Musk on his way to being the first trillionaire.

When people see collapsing housing markets, but also recognize that private equity is allowed to buy up single family homes in this country, people see it.

They understand it.

They grasp that their health care is a mess because it is structured right now to prioritize profit over providing health care.

And we've just come along with a campaign that essentially just says that.

Just says it all right out loud.

And is also based on the fact that these are my politics.

I'm running on my politics.

I'm not looking for a politics to get me elected.

Any road to a blue Senate pretty much goes through the state of Maine.

There are very few paths available if we don't beat Susan Collins.

I would say that there is a...

There is a slight shifting at the moment.

It hasn't been substantial.

After the governor dropped out, I received phone calls from Chuck Schumer.

Pushed her to run.

And he congratulated me on a well-run race.

We talked about how beating Susan Collins is the priority and agreed that that's what we have to be focused on.

Certainly, I've gotten more reach out from individual senators, Democratic senators who I'd not heard from before.

Here in the state of Maine, the state party, I mean, which we have a good relationship with, we're all excited to go, you know, do this together.

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