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Candidates › Maine U.S. Senate race › 2025–2026
Graham C. Platner
DemocraticU.S. SenateMaine
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- Replaced as the Democratic nomineeTroy Jackson is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot instead
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- Ban billionaires buying elections
- Rebuild our failing healthcare system
- Support Small Business – Break Up the Monopolies
- Stop the mass deportation machine; pass real immigration reform
- Defend our air, our water, our land and our climate
- Money
- $0 raised, $0 spent, $0 cash on hand. Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 23% from Maine · largest committee giver DSCC, $62K
- Outside groups
- $423K supporting, $9.2M opposing Platner
26 priorities from grahamforsenate.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
- According to Citizens United, it is every billionaire’s constitutional right to buy an election. As a result, we have individuals spending tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars on political campaigns, a scheme of legalized bribery and vote-buying that drowns out the voices of regular people, effectively replacing what we used to call democracy. Under this system, the prospects for any meaningful reform are grim.
- We must throw out of Washington any politician who will not commit to passing a constitutional amendment to ban billionaires buying elections!
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- Our system of for-profit health insurance is a disaster. We pay more than any other country in the developed world, with little to show for it: low life expectancy, long wait times, and spiraling costs.
- Healthcare is a basic human right — not a privilege, not a perk, a right. As a veteran, I’m fortunate to receive quality care through the VA. But Americans should not have to put on a uniform or fight in misguided foreign wars just to get decent healthcare. Every single person in this country deserves good healthcare, no matter who you are.
- We have rural hospitals closing because of policy choices made by Republicans like Susan Collins. In the Senate, I will fight to fund our rural hospitals so that folks across Maine have access to the care they need.
- I will be a strong supporter of a Medicare for All system, moving away from the for-profit insurance system that has brought us nothing but grief.
- Americans pay more for prescription drugs than almost any other country on earth. That makes me deeply angry. When I’m in the Senate, I’ll stand up to corporate greed and fight to lower drug prices by empowering the government to negotiate drug costs, like almost every other developed nation. We have politicians of both parties taking Big Pharma checks and doing their bidding. I’ll put Mainers first, not the drug companies.
- I will end the shameful practice of subsidizing drug companies to the tune of billions of dollars of public money, while allowing those companies to then turn around and gouge Americans for drugs funded with public resources.
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- Small business, in Maine and beyond, has entered a new period of crisis. While COVID accelerated the process of mass small business closures, this trend has been going on for decades.
- Solving this is no easy matter, but many solutions are straightforward. In particular: why should small businesses pay a higher tax rate than multi-national corporations like Amazon? Righting this wrong will be among my top priorities in the Senate.
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- Our government is kidnapping people off the streets and imprisoning them in hellish conditions. This is unconscionable.
- It is long past time for serious immigration reform. Unfortunately, many multi-national corporations have no interest in this. They want illegal workers with no rights who they can pay slave wages and abuse at will. I will support a path to citizenship and an end to the mass deportation machine.
- We need strong border security and a path to citizenship. We cannot do one without the other.
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- Maine is a special place, and our way of life, our economy, and our future depends on preserving it.
- In the Senate, I will fight for urgent action on climate change. We see it; we know it’s happening; and we know that without sustained action, everything is at risk.
- I will stand up against efforts to dismantle the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. Moreover, as we’re seeing now, we need to significantly strengthen these pieces of legislation, so that enforcement against massive polluters and repeat offenders does not depend upon the whims of whoever happens to be President.
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- The housing crisis is existential. The American dream of owning a home is wilting, as private equity firms and hedge funds buy up housing stock to enrich wealthy investors. We used to provide serious federal support for housing creation, and no longer do. We need to bring back serious federal support for building housing.
- The VA home loan program has provided a critical lifeline to many Americans. These home loans should be available to far more Americans, providing a critical lifeline.
- Ban hedge funds buying homes. I bought my house in 2017. If I hadn't, my wife and I would now be priced out of the town I grew up in, like the millions of Americans being exiled from their towns and cities. There is good legislation languishing to move our homes out of Wall Street's clutches, back into the hands of the American people.
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- These programs, while not enough, are lifelines for millions of Americans, allowing them to live with a degree of dignity. And yet there are many in Washington, too many, who dream of dismantling them for private gain for a very few.
- I will oppose ANY cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, and work to pass improved Medicare for ALL.
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- Social Security has been under steady assault by politicians for decades, and we are nearing a breaking point.
- Lifting the payroll tax cap would make Social Security solvent for decades to come, while allowing for COLA increases. It’s long past time to protect Social Security for future generations.
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- We have an absurd system where you and I pay a higher tax rate than the richest people in human history.
- We must pass a billionaire minimum tax, establishing a baseline tax rate that the super-rich cannot go under.
- This policy is extremely popular – but too often, we have elections between multiple candidates who refuse to support it. I will make this election a referendum over whether the richest people in human history should be allowed to dodge their taxes while you and I pay through the nose.
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- The Wabanaki of Maine are entitled to true sovereignty and self-determination. Too often, the state and federal governments have run roughshod over tribal sovereignty.
- As the campaign progresses, I look forward to developing a detailed platform on tribal issues, in collaboration with the Wabanaki who have been poorly represented in Washington for far too long.
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- I would be the first commercial fisherman in the U.S. Senate, and a friend to Maine’s working waterfront. The waterfront is central to our nation’s food sovereignty, a critical component of our national security.
- I will support expanded cold storage capacity for cooperative processing, grant programs to expand the maritime workforce, and provide significant resources to contain invasive species.
- I will support swift passage of the Working Waterfronts Act, a necessary though insufficient step to protect our waterfront.
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- Unions mean higher wages, better conditions, and greater dignity on the job. No wonder that some of the wealthiest Americans have made it their mission in life to destroy unions.
- I will support the PRO Act, to protect the right to organize and provide significant penalties for illegal union-busting
- I will support good union jobs in Maine in every sector.
- I will support expanded apprenticeship programs to give young Mainers access to some of the most secure, well-paying jobs out there.
- I will support a union job requirement for all jobs funded by federal dollars. Omitting this was a major failure of the IRA, one I look forward to remedying in the Senate.
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