Graham Platner’s Revolution Hits The Road

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4.8 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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David Sirota buckles up for a drive through rural Maine with the Senate candidate that the Democratic establishment doesn’t want — but can't afford to lose. Just two days after Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of Maine’s U.S. Senate race, David Sirota hopped in a car with Graham Platner — the long-shot candidate who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee — for an unfiltered, on-the-road interview. In today’s episode of Lever Time, you’ll hear Platner on where he thinks the Democratic Party went wrong, why he thinks the United States went from President Barack Obama to President Donald Trump, how he feels about combat and war, his latest views on gun policy, and, if he wins, what kind of senator he intends to be. Get ad-free episodes, bonus content and extended interviews by becoming a member at levernews.com/join. To leave a tip for The Lever, click here. It helps us do this kind of independent journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:08.7	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:13.0	Mom!
0:13.6	Up the stairs for something.
0:16.5	Back down, no idea what I went up for.
0:20.6	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:21.6	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:25.6	Hello Fresh can't slow life down,
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1:06.5	The assignment with me, Audie Cornish. The Oscars will be out, like the Golden Globes will be out there.
1:11.8	There's a Super Bowl coming up with Bad Bunny.
1:14.2	Yeah.
1:14.4	The start of the year every year is really a time where some of these water cooler moments kick off.
1:20.4	People really need anything that's galvanizing or hopeful.
1:24.8	You seem like you're embodying cringe right now.
1:27.5	Yeah, it's weird to see the cringe process running course through me in real time.
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