{"id":74808,"date":"2026-06-13T05:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/the-attacks-on-graham-platner-didnt-just-fail-they-may-have-backfired-dustin-guastella\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:59:42","slug":"the-attacks-on-graham-platner-didnt-just-fail-they-may-have-backfired-dustin-guastella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/the-attacks-on-graham-platner-didnt-just-fail-they-may-have-backfired-dustin-guastella\/","title":{"rendered":"The attacks on Graham Platner didn\u2019t just fail \u2013 they may have backfired | Dustin Guastella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Platner\u2019s primary victory in Maine says more about the unpopularity of the Democratic party elite than any race to date<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Not long after governor Janet Mills had effectively dropped out of the primary race, a storm grew around Platner\u2019s campaign. Rightwing <a href=\"https:\/\/zeteo.com\/p\/did-the-new-york-times-just-run-an\">operatives<\/a> and liberal media mouthpieces started singing in unison that Platner was unfit for office, flimsy allegations poured in accusing the candidate of all sorts of alleged misconduct with former girlfriends.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hayes, of the uber-liberal MS NOW network, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nEi9rugxYcg?si=Dip6GMlXCPCfxmRS&amp;t=657\">questioned<\/a> whether Platner was going after underage girls. Not to be outdone, Mika Brzezinski of the same network <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/T-zaTfBDSA8?si=8qTAqMK62IcWQyUi&amp;t=875\">compared<\/a> his behavior with that of Jeffery Epstein. All of this after an earlier campaign that claimed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/21\/maine-graham-platner-tattoo-democrat-senate\">former Marine\u2019s tattoo<\/a> was indicative of his secret affection for Nazis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jun\/13\/graham-platner-miane-victory-democrats-elite\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Platner\u2019s primary victory in Maine says more about the unpopularity of the Democratic party elite than any race to date Not long after governor Janet Mills had effectively dropped out of the primary race, a storm grew around Platner\u2019s campaign. Rightwing operatives and liberal media mouthpieces started singing in unison that Platner was unfit &#8230; <a title=\"The attacks on Graham Platner didn\u2019t just fail \u2013 they may have backfired | Dustin Guastella\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/the-attacks-on-graham-platner-didnt-just-fail-they-may-have-backfired-dustin-guastella\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The attacks on Graham Platner didn\u2019t just fail \u2013 they may have backfired | Dustin Guastella\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}