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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner listens to a question from the audience at a campaign town hall meeting in Ogunquit, Maine, October 22, 2025.

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I don’t know if Graham Platner thinks of himself as a Nazi, or secretly roots against Indiana Jones, or whether he relates to Rolf when he watches The Sound of Music.

But I do know that Platner’s version of events – the one that is allegedly exculpatory — portrays himself as a spectacularly naïve, unobservant and oblivious person. And that version of events is contradicted by several others, including his former political director.

Jim Geraghty

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Jim Geraghty

Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review.

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