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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

It's a Numbers Game: The Truth About Graham Platner: Communist Past, Nazi Tattoo Controversy & Maine Senate Race

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Daily News, Politics

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of A Numbers Game, Ryan Girdusky takes a deep dive into one of the most controversial candidates in the 2026 election cycle: Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:07.4

Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

0:09.3

Thank you guys for being here.

0:10.9

So on this program, I have talked a lot about politicians and taking them to task.

0:16.6

People who pretend to be one thing in public and in private are monsters.

0:20.8

And I've mostly focused on my own party, people like Corey Mills and Tony Gonzalez, who just

0:25.2

recently dropped out of his reelection campaign.

0:27.6

But today I'm going to talk about a Democrat, one of the most deceitful people running for

0:32.8

office this year.

0:34.1

His name is Graham Platner, and he's running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S.

0:38.5

Senate in Maine against incumbent governor Jenna Mills in the primary and against Susan Collins,

0:43.9

the incumbent center in the general. Pottner has quickly become a progressive darling,

0:49.0

earning the endorsement of Bernie Sanders, Ruben Gallego, David Hogg, Gen Z for Change,

0:53.7

Our Revolution, and the anti-Israel

0:55.5

track, APAC.

0:56.8

He's raised millions of dollars across the country, most of from small dollar donors,

1:00.9

close to eight million, more in the last quarter than either the governor or the senator.

1:06.2

He's raised, and he's raised them on the back of the campaign that he is a true working-class advocate. You know, and he's raised them on the back of the campaign that he is a true working class

1:13.2

advocate. And it's working. That plot, that plan, that selling point is working. Right now,

1:20.0

he's got a very significant lead in the primary and a smaller but respectful one in the general.

1:25.3

In the last six public polls, Platiner led by an average

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