PCCC endorses Graham Platner for US Senate, shares shocking poll! WATCH HERE.
BREAKING! We just endorsed insurgent Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner on a big livestream with dozens of national reporters, thousands of activists, and Graham Platner himself!
WE MADE BIG NEWS sharing brand new polling showing Platner with a 20-point lead over Chuck Schumer’s hand-picked candidate, current Maine Governor Janet Mills.
The polling results show that not only is Graham Platner winning the primary by a huge margin, but he is better positioned to beat Republican Senator Susan Collins.
But here is the hard truth: Now that these poll numbers are public, the Establishment knows exactly how big a threat Graham is. Chuck Schumer’s donor network and the corporate Super PACs are going to flood Maine with attack ads to protect their favorite. Graham is an oyster farmer and a Marine, not a corporate politician – he doesn't have a rolodex of billionaire backers. But he does have us!
We believe this is the most important race in the entire 2026 election – an indicator of how Democrats can run and win in swing parts of our country.
"It's amazing to see what it feels like on the ground being reflected directly in a poll like this. The endorsement, it truly means a lot, and it's an absolute honor to be in this fight with you guys,” Platner told the reporters and PCCC members. "We need to build power again for working people…and this race specifically is an opportunity to do this on a scale with an amount of success that we don't really see elsewhere at the moment."
If Graham Platner is just now hitting your radar, check out the livestream on Facebook. And be sure to share it with others!
Then, chip in to fuel Graham Platner’s campaign to, finally, at long last, DEFEAT SUSAN COLLINS!
Thanks for being with us in this moment.
– The PCCC Team
See the full poll presentation here.
ADDITIONAL QUOTES FROM GRAHAM PLATNER'S Q&A WITH VOTERS AND THE MEDIA
ON THE RACE
- "We need to change politics in this country…The only way that we're going to represent the working class of the United States is by putting people from the working class of the United States into positions of power." – Graham Platner
- "I think what people really want is a politics that is going to engage with them and be engaged by them, be like, have a back and forth and so I'm going to continue to make myself accessible to people, and I think that, quite frankly, is the best way to do it." – Graham Platner in response to ABC’s Oren Oppenheim
ON CORPORATE POWER & FOSSIL FUELS
- "Corporate money in our politics is where power resides. It controls so much of our political system. And the only way that we are going to be able to get a future that represents the interests of people– not just corporations– is by fighting back against it. And I think that at this point, one of the most powerful tools we have is getting candidates who can be very vocal and very upfront about not taking corporate money, and then showing that we can win." – Graham Platner
- "Everybody is angry about this, Independent voters, Republican voters, Democratic voters. Everybody I talk to thinks there is far too much control in American politics that comes from corporate interests and money." – Graham Platner in response to USA Today’s Phillip Bailey’s question on progressives’ theme for 2026
- "I think we need to be pushing significantly harder for a future in which not using fossil fuels as the baseline of how we get our energy sources is paramount for building a world in which working people can live in. In many ways, there's kind of no point in building a political system and an economic system that helps working people if we're also destroying the planet that they require to live in. That seems self-defeating to me, and so I'm more than happy to sign that pledge." – Graham Platner on signing the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge.
ON CHUCK SCHUMER & DEM FUTURE
- "Chuck Schumer is very much a perfect example of the kind of Democrat that has been operating within the system the entire time, who has benefited from it, and yet, who has gained an immense amount of power. And yet, for some reason, we can't do anything with that power… That's frankly, why we find ourselves in the position that we're in right now." – Graham Platner in response to USA Today’s Phillip Bailey’s question on Schumer
- "My stance about Chuck Schumer's leadership has nothing to do with Chuck Schumer, quite frankly, as a person, it has more to do with just what I am seeing in the Senate right now: our inability to leverage power and to use it." – Graham Platner
- "I’ve been able to have conversations with people I have an immense amount of respect for about power building, about movement building, about the need to utilize the levers of power that exist in the Senate to push back effectively against the unconstitutional legal activities of the Trump administration, and then about also looking down the road, how do we build power… It's been incredibly heartening to have those conversations with members of the Fight Club, and, frankly, multiple other Democratic members of the Senate around these issues…We have a lot of common ground on this stuff." – Graham Platner in response to Axios’ Stephen Neukam’s question on his relationship with Democratic senators and "Fight Club" members
ON THE ECONOMY, SOCIAL SECURITY, ABORTION:
- "I am a firm believer in removing the cap [on Social Security]. When I talk to working people in Maine and explain what the cap is– Republican, Democrat, Independent, it doesn’t matter– everybody thinks it's the dumbest thing they've ever heard. Everybody always says it's like, ‘Well, that seems like it's just good for rich people.’ And I get to say things like, ‘That is correct, which is why we have it.’ That is something I think that we as the Democratic Party have failed on miserably." – Graham Platner
- "I also think we should have enshrined the right to choose in federal law a long time ago. I think that was a completely missed opportunity when we had it. And moving forward, the first chance we get, it needs to be something that we put into statute forever at this time." – Graham Platner
POLLSTER’S ANALYSIS
- "If I'm Janet Mills, I just made the biggest mistake by putting this out there so soon, because Maine is so small, and as you can see, like Graham is incredibly talented, and he connects well. And so when everyone's concerned with electability, when Democrats are in a democratic state, are very concerned about electability, but very concerned about what's happening in DC, his response has still been credible, and it's reached people." – Nancy Zdunkewicz
- "Graham gets to give that message that not just Democrats, but all Mainers are really hungry for. I just want to emphasize again…people are really upset about elderly politicians that they think are not up for the fight of not just fighting Trump, but fighting for the kind of agenda that we really need in this country to create real change. And you see that in Graham but you certainly don't see it in Mills, and you know Collins is also of that same stripe." – Nancy Zdunkewicz
- "This is Maine. It's small, like people are paying attention. You know, it's an older state, so, you know, a more rural state, so people are more likely to actually see these things on the news. It's much harder to communicate in states like New York or Florida or California or Texas, people have heard this news. They've heard him, he's responded, and they've obviously found it credible. Or else you wouldn't see the results like this, the fact that there is no movement, there is no movement in this survey, because people have already heard it." – Nancy Zdunkewicz
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