Graham Platner’s campaign issued a damage control memo on Wednesday, bragging about his fundraising numbers and a new internal poll showing him maintaining a reduced lead over Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) amid his new cheating and sexting scandal.
“The past few days have seen some of the strongest fundraising of the entire campaign, with momentum growing over the last week, both on ActBlue and across traditional fundraising channels,” said the campaign memo.
“The message from voters is steadfast: they care that you’re fighting for their hospitals, their wages, their housing, and their kids,” it added.
The memo claimed that the past week has seen growing campaign funding, with funding spiking on Saturday, marking “one of the best stretches of the campaign.”
The campaign claims it saw an 18 percent increase in small-dollar donations and said that it was one of the top five fundraisers on ActBlue.
The memo notably did not include any actual dollar amounts but suggested that, if its claims are true, the latest scandals have not harmed Platner’s support among donors.
Over the weekend, Platner’s latest scandals hit national news, including allegations of multiple affairs while he was married and revelations of his sexually charged account on Kik, a private messaging platform often cited in child exploitation cases and described by child welfare organizations as a “predator’s paradise.”
The memo also highlighted an internal poll, conducted between June 2 and 3 after the most recent scandals broke, that gave Platner a four-point lead over Sen. Collins.
The internal poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling, surveyed 670 registered voters.
Pollsters found that Platner leads Collins 49-45 percent with six percent undecided. Platner’s margin of victory remained unchanged when voters were informed of his recent sexting scandal and allegations of Collins funneling $50 million in government contracts to her husband’s company.
“The undecided lean Democratic. They backed Harris by 23 points in 2024 and gave Trump a net -26 favorability now, suggesting they’re more likely to break towards Platner than Collins,” said the memo.
While the campaign cited the left-wing leaning of undecided voters as a likely boon, it also suggests that Republican voters are far more united behind Collins than Democrats are behind their presumptive nominee.
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Platner’s lead in internal polls is also significantly smaller than the lead found by a late May Pine Tree State Poll, which placed him nine points ahead of Collins with six percent of voters undecided.
The democrats just do not care, period. They hate happiness or any kind of success.
Democrats will do and say ANYTHING to win .
To hell with the “people “ of Maine and of the country .
ALL democrats want to do is win .
WE CAN NOT LET THEM .
The brain dead boomer broads love him and hope to have Kik meet up in the porta potty.
I have lived all of my 74 years in Maine, and I no longer recognize my once tranquil, beautiful state where indeed common sense once ruled; in other words, at one time it really could have been described as “the way life should be.” We need to elect leaders who can bring back the Maine we once knew and cherished. In my opinion, actions speak louder than words, and anyone who at any time in his life has chosen to have a Nazi death symbol drawn on his body, close to his heart in Platner’s case, has made a VERY strong statement about his true values – and we’re certainly discovering what those are. Graham Platner should NOT be elected to be a leader in government anywhere in America – certainly not for us in Maine. And he should NEVER be given the opportunity to legislate the future of America for our children and grandchildren.