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Graham Platner Is Staying in the Race

December 22, 2025·49 min·6-min readconversationalpolitics
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In a wide-ranging interview on The New Yorker Radio Hour, David Remnick speaks with Graham Platner, a Marine and Army veteran and oyster farmer running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate in Maine against long-time Republican incumbent Susan Collins. Platner discusses his controversial pa

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