Mainers Have Questions for Platner

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks to voters at a town hall at the Elks Lodge 188 in Portland, Maine, on June 7, 2026. Laura Brett/Getty Images

BELFAST—On the afternoon of June 6, in a small city on the coast of Maine, older men and women thronged a two-storey house near a farmers’ market.

The campaign volunteers were there for a pep talk from Graham Platner, the Maine Democratic Senate hopeful who would go on to win his June 9 primary.