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Victor Davis Hanson: The Rise and Fall of Socialist Graham Platner

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🗓️ 10 July 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Democrats’ strategy of propping up socialist candidates and disguising them as the average middle class has finally caught up to them with Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.   The allegations towards Platner are damning and have come from both sides of the political aisle. Today, the news broke that Platner officially dropped out of the Maine Senate race.   Where do Democrats go from here? And do they have enough time to recover? Alliance Defending Freedom - Visit https://www.JoinADF.com/HANSON or text HANSON to 83848 to sign ADF’s petition to protect female sports. Add your name to the declaration and side with truth and fairness! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Daily Signal podcast, where we provide intelligence for the intelligent.

0:05.1

Now, without further ado, here's today's take.

0:08.1

For the last month or so, we've heard nothing but Graham Platner, but Graham Platner, Graham Platner.

0:13.7

He's very controversial, as we all remember.

0:16.0

We learned that he had smeared and slandered fellow veterans.

0:19.5

He was on social media sites that usually were used by molesters.

0:24.4

He had the Totenkov Death Heads tattoo.

0:26.9

But a new development happened this week when another person came forward and said that not just that she had her arm twisted and had been physically assaulted, but she said she was raped, and then everything started to change.

0:40.5

All of these terrible things I just reviewed about Graham Platner

0:44.1

were known to the left-wing voters of Maine.

0:46.5

But even they were not bothered with all the things I reviewed and decided.

0:51.4

So what happened?

1:05.3

Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal.

1:11.1

For the last month or so, we've heard nothing but Graham Platner, but Graham Platner, Graham Platner.

1:21.1

He is a quote on, quote, oyster man from Maine that was a four-tour combat veteran who the Democratic Party, Mr. Katz, a very obscure 27-year-old activist, recruited for the Democratic Party to run against Susan Collins for the senior Senator Slot in Maine.

1:36.7

And he's very controversial, as we all remember.

1:39.9

After he declared his candidacy, we learned that he had smeared and slandered fellow veterans.

1:46.2

He was on social media sites that usually were used by pedophiles and molesters.

1:54.3

He had been married recently, yet he was sexting with two or three other women.

1:59.4

One of his former girlfriends said he'd use violence to

2:02.5

twist her arm. I could go on. He had the Totenkov Deathheads tattoo and Nazi symbol of the

2:07.7

Third Panzer Division in the Einzen Group at the Death Camps of Germany. But a new development

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