Good evening from New York. I'm Chris. Today's tonight. We have some breaking news surrounding

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner. New York Times has exclusive reporting tonight on

three women who previously dated Platner and called his behavior in those relationships unsettling,

volatile, and toxic. Grand Platner will be joining me in just a moment to

address the allegations reported in that story. Now, the report comes as Democrats are more aware than

ever about how the effort to hold Trump accountable will, of course, require flipping seats in the

currently Republican majority Senate. And lots of political observers agree that one of their best shots at flipping a seat

should be in Maine. It's a state that Donald Trump actually lost three times. He lost it to Kamala Harris,

Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden. It is represented by longtime Republican incumbent Susan Collins,

who has held that seat since 1997, even as the state has elected Democrats at other statewide offices and

the president. And Collins has long been an electoral powerhouse. So Democrats feel like this

November is the time to finally unseat her, and she has been polling behind and head-to-head

matchups for months now. On Tuesday, voters will head to the polls in Maine for one of the most

closely watched primary

contests in the country.

And you might remember that late last year, a little-known oyster farmer named Graham Platner

took the state by storm with a barn burner of an introductory political ad.

That's the one we're playing on your screen there.

It's pretty memorable.

You probably saw it.

And it's also very clear that Platner is a very natural, high-level political talent. He's been able to draw large

crowds throughout the state, sometimes in small towns where half the towns there. He has

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