Democrats' Platner Problem
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🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Maine voters will head to the polls tomorrow to decide who will take on five-term Republican Senator Susan Collins. And somehow, Graham Platner still has a sizable lead in the Democratic primary. You probably know a few things about the presumptive Democratic nominee for Maine’s Senate seat. He served in the Marine Corps and now runs an oyster farm. And you’ve probably heard a lot of other things about Platner over the last few weeks – like about a Nazi tattoo, or his allegedly abusive behavior towards past romantic partners. None of the new information is good. But will it matter to Maine voters? And more importantly, should it? To find out, we spoke with Jon Lovett. He’s co-host of Crooked Media’s Pod Save America.
And in headlines, President Donald Trump abruptly ends his interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, Iran and Israel trade fire for the first time since the U.S. agreed to a ceasefire with Tehran, and Chinese President Xi Jinping visits North Korea for the first time in seven years.
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| 0:00.0 | When an establishment says, sorry were your only choice, people have a way of telling you to fuck off. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, the show that was wondering how Republicans would find a way to blame the screw worm outbreak |
| 0:21.4 | that's devastating the cattle industry on Democrats. But Kansas Republican Senator Roger Marshall |
| 0:26.7 | figured it out Monday on Newsmax. We've been through this before. We eradicated the screw worm |
| 0:32.5 | in 1966, and we'll talk about this. But this is another thing we can thank Joe Biden for, that when |
| 0:38.8 | millions of people came out of Central America, they brought this screw worm with him. |
| 0:44.2 | Not only is that not true. Actually, we stopped investing in the proven methods to stop screw worms |
| 0:49.5 | of the last two decades, but also, it's June of 2026. Time to find a new skate president. On today's show, |
| 0:58.0 | I talked to John Lovett about Tuesday's main Democratic Senate primary and the grand |
| 1:01.9 | platinum of it all. Before we get into all that, here's what we're following today, Monday, June 8th. |
| 1:09.2 | What changed because you insisted no new wars? |
| 1:13.9 | President Donald Trump was on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, |
| 1:19.5 | where he dismissed the idea that starting the war with Iran this year |
| 1:22.0 | betrayed his no new wars campaign promise. |
| 1:25.6 | While we've officially hit the 100-day mark since the start of the |
| 1:28.7 | conflict. And it has shaken the global economy, driven energy prices up around the world, made many |
| 1:34.7 | basics more expensive, and killed thousands of people. And Sunday, Israel and Iran traded fire for the |
| 1:40.3 | first time since the U.S. agreed to a ceasefire with Tehran two months ago. As of Monday afternoon, the strikes appear to have stopped, but both countries warned they are ready to launch retaliatory attacks if provoked. |
| 1:52.0 | Things got pretty heated during that meet-the-press interview, and apparently Trump couldn't handle the heat, so he got out of the kitchen, or in this case, a barn in Wisconsin. |
| 2:05.7 | NBC's Kristen Welker pressed and increasingly agitated Trump for evidence to support his claim that California's recent primary elections were rigged. |
| 2:09.8 | California's notoriously prolonged vote count has been a magnet for election conspiracy theories, |
| 2:14.2 | and Trump has claimed without evidence that Democrats are rigging the election, |
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