Opinion: Graham Platner is not representative of America
Politics,Culture,Polarization,Political Polarization,US Senate,Maine
From the Center
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Of all the reasons that Maine residents were given to vote for Graham Platner in his race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate — and many of them boiled down to beating Donald Trump and Republicans — the most disturbing one came from Bill Maher.
After telling his HBO audience ahead of the primary that "we need to restore balance in our government, and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that," the talk-show host explained that, actually, we are all Graham Platner...
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