Chris Hayes: Platner interview. Video and text.
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 for president.
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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 town's there. He has barnstormed basically nonstop doing event after event after event.
It's also true that Platner is a political unknown. He's a combat veteran who readily admits to have -- having a very messy past. And with that past has come a slow, consistent drip of negative headlines that he has had to reckon with since entering the race.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/chris-hayes-interviews-platner-on-nyt-abuse-allegations-anything-alleging-physicality-is-simply-not-true/ar-AA24SOmD
It is worth watching for the answers and reactions.
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And always the moronic conspiracy theory about 
CENTRIST ESTABLISHMENT 
.
I'm following this Graham Platner thing from a long distance with some interest. I haven't seen any conspiracy theories about the centre of the party, so could you explain what it is?
Also, I did do some reading up on the two-party system and found out only having two parties is what's resulted in the Democratic Party being such a big bus stretching from the left to the right of LW politics. And there's a lot of bickering between the different factions. Right now I'm thinking there should be far less bickering and far more focus on the real issue, which is Trump and his gang of butt-licking cronies destroying US democracy and ransacking what belongs to the American people.
And tbh I think there should be a multiparty parliamentary system in the US like there is in the UK and Australia. There's different factions in the Labor Party, but it seems to work better in the US. The only time I think I've felt revulsion is when Peter Garrett from Midnight Oil went into Parliament as a Labor MP instead of going with the Greens, who were much more reflective of his views. Enough waffling, but no-one who's been attacking Platner has been explaining what the alternative options are, so they do come across as just attacking and smearing. The primary is in a few days so hopefully this won't be an issue then 
Their candidates would not personally attack those who have a different view.
This is still the primary. I'm a Team player, I don't take my ball and go home in the GE.
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Sadly, they are overrun with MAGAs that the knee to trump. They don't give a rats ass about their constituents' wellbeing, the American people as a whole or the constitution.
Jesus wept.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21281039
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My Senate Candidate this year is Cory Booker.
No joke sheshe. There's nothing the Magapubs or Leftists (not Democratic Party members) can throw at him that rises to Platner's problems.
Also - god bless Ras Baraka and Mikie Sherrill.
