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PCCC endorses Graham Platner for US Senate, shares shocking poll! [ [link removed] ]WATCH
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BREAKING! We just endorsed insurgent Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham
Platner on a big [ [link removed] ]livestream with dozens of national reporters,
thousands of activists, and Graham Platner himself!
WE MADE BIG NEWS sharing [ [link removed] ]brand new polling showing Platner with a
20-point lead over Chuck Schumer’s hand-picked candidate, current Maine
Governor Janet Mills.
The polling results show that not only is Graham Platner winning the
primary by a huge margin, but he is better positioned to beat Republican
Senator Susan Collins.
But here is the hard truth: Now that these poll numbers are public, the
Establishment knows exactly how big a threat Graham is. Chuck Schumer’s
donor network and the corporate Super PACs are going to flood Maine with
attack ads to protect their favorite. Graham is an oyster farmer and a
Marine, not a corporate politician – he doesn't have a rolodex of
billionaire backers. But he does have us!
[ [link removed] ]Rush a contribution of $3 or more to Graham Platner’s campaign to help
an oyster farmer DEFEAT the corporate establishment in Maine!
We believe this is the most important race in the entire 2026 election –
an indicator of how Democrats can run and win in swing parts of our
country.
"It's amazing to see what it feels like on the ground being reflected
directly in a poll like this. The endorsement, it truly means a lot, and
it's an absolute honor to be in this fight with you guys,” Platner told
the reporters and PCCC members. "We need to build power again for working
people…and this race specifically is an opportunity to do this on a scale
with an amount of success that we don't really see elsewhere at the
moment."
If Graham Platner is just now hitting your radar, [ [link removed] ]check out the
livestream on Facebook. And be sure to share it with others!
[ [link removed] ]Then, chip in to fuel Graham Platner’s campaign to, finally, at long
last, DEFEAT SUSAN COLLINS!
Thanks for being with us in this moment.
– The PCCC Team
See the full poll presentation [ [link removed] ]here.
[ [link removed] ]Poll: Platner has impressive 20-point lead in Democratic primary for
Senate
[ [link removed] ]Poll: Platner leads Mills with every major group
[ [link removed] ]Poll: Platner's lead in the primary only grows after positives and
negatives about both candidates.
ADDITIONAL QUOTES FROM GRAHAM PLATNER'S Q&A WITH VOTERS AND THE MEDIA
ON THE RACE
* "We need to change politics in this country…The only way that we're
going to represent the working class of the United States is by
putting people from the working class of the United States into
positions of power." – Graham Platner
* "I think what people really want is a politics that is going to engage
with them and be engaged by them, be like, have a back and forth and
so I'm going to continue to make myself accessible to people, and I
think that, quite frankly, is the best way to do it." – Graham Platner
in response to ABC’s Oren Oppenheim
ON CORPORATE POWER & FOSSIL FUELS
* "Corporate money in our politics is where power resides. It controls
so much of our political system. And the only way that we are going to
be able to get a future that represents the interests of people– not
just corporations– is by fighting back against it. And I think that at
this point, one of the most powerful tools we have is getting
candidates who can be very vocal and very upfront about not taking
corporate money, and then showing that we can win." – Graham Platner
* "Everybody is angry about this, Independent voters, Republican voters,
Democratic voters. Everybody I talk to thinks there is far too much
control in American politics that comes from corporate interests and
money." – Graham Platner in response to USA Today’s Phillip Bailey’s
question on progressives’ theme for 2026
* "I think we need to be pushing significantly harder for a future in
which not using fossil fuels as the baseline of how we get our energy
sources is paramount for building a world in which working people can
live in. In many ways, there's kind of no point in building a
political system and an economic system that helps working people if
we're also destroying the planet that they require to live in. That
seems self-defeating to me, and so I'm more than happy to sign that
pledge." – Graham Platner on signing the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge.
ON CHUCK SCHUMER & DEM FUTURE
* "Chuck Schumer is very much a perfect example of the kind of Democrat
that has been operating within the system the entire time, who has
benefited from it, and yet, who has gained an immense amount of power.
And yet, for some reason, we can't do anything with that power… That's
frankly, why we find ourselves in the position that we're in right
now." – Graham Platner in response to USA Today’s Phillip Bailey’s
question on Schumer
* "My stance about Chuck Schumer's leadership has nothing to do with
Chuck Schumer, quite frankly, as a person, it has more to do with just
what I am seeing in the Senate right now: our inability to leverage
power and to use it." – Graham Platner
* "I’ve been able to have conversations with people I have an immense
amount of respect for about power building, about movement building,
about the need to utilize the levers of power that exist in the Senate
to push back effectively against the unconstitutional legal activities
of the Trump administration, and then about also looking down the
road, how do we build power… It's been incredibly heartening to have
those conversations with members of the Fight Club, and, frankly,
multiple other Democratic members of the Senate around these issues…We
have a lot of common ground on this stuff." – Graham Platner in
response to Axios’ Stephen Neukam’s question on his relationship with
Democratic senators and "Fight Club" members
ON THE ECONOMY, SOCIAL SECURITY, ABORTION:
* "I am a firm believer in removing the cap [on Social Security]. When I
talk to working people in Maine and explain what the cap is–
Republican, Democrat, Independent, it doesn’t matter– everybody thinks
it's the dumbest thing they've ever heard. Everybody always says it's
like, ‘Well, that seems like it's just good for rich people.’ And I
get to say things like, ‘That is correct, which is why we have it.’
That is something I think that we as the Democratic Party have failed
on miserably." – Graham Platner
* "I also think we should have enshrined the right to choose in federal
law a long time ago. I think that was a completely missed opportunity
when we had it. And moving forward, the first chance we get, it needs
to be something that we put into statute forever at this time." –
Graham Platner
POLLSTER’S ANALYSIS
* "If I'm Janet Mills, I just made the biggest mistake by putting this
out there so soon, because Maine is so small, and as you can see, like
Graham is incredibly talented, and he connects well. And so when
everyone's concerned with electability, when Democrats are in a
democratic state, are very concerned about electability, but very
concerned about what's happening in DC, his response has still been
credible, and it's reached people." – Nancy Zdunkewicz
* "Graham gets to give that message that not just Democrats, but all
Mainers are really hungry for. I just want to emphasize again…people
are really upset about elderly politicians that they think are not up
for the fight of not just fighting Trump, but fighting for the kind of
agenda that we really need in this country to create real change. And
you see that in Graham but you certainly don't see it in Mills, and
you know Collins is also of that same stripe." – Nancy Zdunkewicz
* "This is Maine. It's small, like people are paying attention. You
know, it's an older state, so, you know, a more rural state, so people
are more likely to actually see these things on the news. It's much
harder to communicate in states like New York or Florida or California
or Texas, people have heard this news. They've heard him, he's
responded, and they've obviously found it credible. Or else you
wouldn't see the results like this, the fact that there is no
movement, there is no movement in this survey, because people have
already heard it." – Nancy Zdunkewicz
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