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Episode 32: 2026's Maine Event, with Michael Shepherd of the Bangor Daily News
One 2026 election seems to keep grabbing all the headlines: Maine’s U.S. Senate race. There, Democrat Graham Platner keeps making news, and usually for the wrong reasons. Reports recently surfaced that reported that Platner had sent sexually explicit texts to women who were not his wife. This is just the latest in a drip, drip, drip of controversial stories about Platner, the likely Democratic nominee to face Sen. Susan Collins. This is one of the most important Senate races in 2026, as Collins is the only Republican senator from a state carried by Kamala Harris in 2024.
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