Tony Dokoupil: ‘Many Democrats Knew Graham Platner Had Character Issues’

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DOKOUPIL: “So, what’s behind all that support for him until now? Could it simply be that he was winning? That he had blown out the sitting governor and the Democratic primary? It sure seemed like the Democrats best chance to beat Maine’s Republican senator Susan Collins. In political circles, the answer, it appears, was yes. Many Democrats knew platner had character issues. The theory, from Daniel moraff, the political strategist who plucked platner from obscurity, and made him into a star, was that the voters wouldn’t care, that they wanted, quote, real people who have lived real lives.”