What To Do With Graham Platner

Maine should be the easiest Democratic Senate pickup of 2026. Susan Collins is uniquely vulnerable, Trump has never won the state, and it’s a midterm with an unpopular Republican president. So why is it a nightmare? Nick endorsed Graham Platner early — an anti-PAC, Bernie-backed, working class Marine veteran running the exact campaign Democrats say they want. Then came the scandals. The Reddit posts. The tattoo. The sexting. The NYT relationship story. Nick goes through all of it honestly — what’s real, what’s overblown, and what’s genuinely troubling — and lands on the harder question: what do you do when the right candidate is the wrong guy, and the party that created this mess is now debating whether to help him win?