Can A Sexting Oyster Farmer With Multiple Scandals Flip The Senate?
Rogue Energy
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The name Graham Platner has been trending all weekend after his wife of 3 years posted a video defending her husband. Platner is ahead in the polls, hoping to beat incumbent Maine Senator Susan Collins come November. That win could shift the balance of power in the Senate to Democrats. Platner has admitted to sexting several women early in his marriage and has past Reddit posts about black people and sexual assault victims coming back to haunt his candidacy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.2 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Monday, June 1st, and she is standing by her man. |
| 0:13.0 | And in doing so, she might be saving Democrats' hopes of retaking the Senate. |
| 0:19.3 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:21.8 | Platner, Platner. |
| 0:23.0 | It's not a guy a lot of people know, but if you've been wondering, folks, |
| 0:26.2 | Platner has been trending a lot this week. |
| 0:28.7 | Yes. |
| 0:28.9 | That last name. |
| 0:29.8 | Graham Platner is his name, and he is the presumptive Democrat nominee for Senate in a state that literally could shift the balance of power in the Senate. |
| 0:43.5 | And he's going up against or will be going up against a name you do know if you follow politics at all for the past three decades, I would say. |
| 0:53.5 | Senator Susan Collins with that very distinctive, |
| 0:56.4 | shaky voice. She is someone, you know, you don't know a lot of main politicians, perhaps, |
| 1:02.6 | but she stands out among them and she's in trouble. She's in trouble. And now he's in trouble. |
| 1:09.2 | And he's in trouble. What's a voter to do? |
| 1:12.2 | So they're going to have to decide between a scandal-written candidate and a really three-decade serving senator in Susan Collins. |
| 1:23.0 | Robes. |
| 1:23.7 | He, Graham Platner, look, we didn't, I wasn't keeping up with the name before the scandals. |
| 1:29.9 | Wasn't either. |
| 1:30.7 | Okay, so he's had a couple of scandals, but the latest one we mentioned here, his wife has now gotten involved in. |
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