WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, Socialist Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as the Mayor of New York City by none other than Bernie Sanders. Mamdani’s successful campaign has become the blueprint for radical Democrats in messy primaries across the nation.
In Maine, Graham Platner has been dubbed, “Maine’s Zohran Mamdani,” and even hired Mamdani’s ad-maker to produce his debut ad. As a result, public polls show Platner leading Governor Janet Mills by 20 points in the primary.
“Graham Platner is centering his campaign around Mamdani’s socialist and extremist agenda so much so that he has been dubbed ‘Maine’s Zohran Mamdani’ and is ahead in the polls. Democrats are rallying behind Mamdani’s radical, copy-cat candidates in messy primaries across the nation,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Samantha Cantrell.
Graham Platner is Maine’s Mamdani:
- Platner has called himself a “communist.”
- Platner has also called himself a “socialist” and said that he does not “trust the fascists to act politely.”
- Platner supports Medicare for All.
- Platner supports defunding the police and wants to “abolish ICE entirely.”
- Around 2021, Platner said that “Cops are bastards… All of them, in fact.”
- Platner said that police misconduct is “a problem that extends deep into the profession as a whole.”
- Platner said that he would “stand right in the fucking way of anyone who’s going to try to come after the freedoms of the LGBTQIA+ community.”
- Platner is comfortable with biological men competing in women’s sports.
- Platner has accused Israel of “genocide” in Gaza and endorsed blocking U.S. arms sales to Israel.
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