Graham Platner’s bizarre origin story; Dems fight ICE by building a wall; Jaxson Dart and the heckler’s veto
Graham Platner positioned himself as a working-class Maine veteran ready to take on the establishment. So why did his father give him $200,000 to buy his first house? Why did GQ profile him weeks before he even filed to run? Why did the New York Times write a feature on him before he even announced? And why does the same political consultant who worked for Fetterman and is now working for Zohran Mamdani keep showing up in his orbit? We break down the full Platner operation — and why it looks a lot less like populism and a lot more like the Beto O'Rourke playbook dressed up in Carhartt…
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