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The Editors

Episode 879: Maine Character Syndrome

The Editors

National Review

Conservatism, Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Noah Rothman, Policy, Rich Lowry, Current Events, Jim Geraghty, Government, Public Policy, Madeleine Kearns, News, Conservative, National Review, Society & Culture

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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0:00.0

Graham Platner's very active online life is revealed in sync Uyger and Hassan Piker band from the UK.

0:22.6

We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors.

0:25.0

I'm Rich Lauer, and I'm joined, as always by the right, Honorable Charles C.W. Cook,

0:28.2

the good neighbor, Noah Rothman, and the sage of authenticity woods.

0:31.7

Jim Garrity, you are, of course, listening to a national new podcast or sponsors.

0:36.0

This episode are Made in verre and the

0:37.5

university of austin more about all of them in due course if for some reason you're not

0:41.7

already following us on a streaming service by the way you can find us everywhere from

0:45.3

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0:49.3

five-star review wherever you listen to your podcast if you don't like what you hear here please

0:53.5

forget i said anything so jim. If you don't like what you hear here, please forget.

1:00.2

I said anything. So Jim Garrity, you weren't on the Friday episode, but we're doing predictions,

1:06.1

various Senate races. And I predicted Graham Platner would beat Susan Collins, but lo and behold,

1:18.0

my odds-on favorite in the main Senate race had a very tough weekend. Two stories in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times about his wife going to campaign staff a while ago and saying,

1:18.5

you know what?

1:24.8

He's been sexting other women since we got married.

1:29.1

Do you think this might be a problem with his campaign? There's a disaffected former staffer who clearly got a good look at Graham Blattner, didn't like what she saw,

1:34.9

has left, and was the source of this story. The problem he has here, one reason I thought

1:41.3

he might beat Collins is that the Reddit post were a while ago.

1:46.2

You know, he can say this is a bad time in my life.

1:48.8

The problem here, this is really recent.

1:51.6

And clearly the lying has just begun from Graham Platner on this stuff.

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