Democrats to Use Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings Against Susan Collins
“I can’t think of a dumber strategy. Invoking Kavanaugh will only serve to showcase the allegations against Graham Platner.”
American history is filled with “you can’t make it up” moments, including among candidates for public office, and 2026 has been no exception to that rule.
Graham Platner, Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee, has been a case study in this, if one just reads some of his more infamous Reddit posts alone, including the especially cringe one about self-pleasuring in porta-potties because “the blue water conditioned me.”
Throughout his campaign, Platner has used some of Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ votes in the Senate to portray her as too out of touch with Maine voters, though she’s repeatedly won reelection in the Pine Tree State.
In one instance, Platner falsely accused Collins of voting to send him to Iraq, which was impossible, considering he enlisted in the U.S. military several months after the 2003 Iraq war started. When Collins nailed him on the inconsistency and also noted he reenlisted at a later date, he bizarrely accused her of attacking and disrespecting veterans.
Another attack Platner regularly uses on Collins is that she was the key vote in 2018 to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh, Platner has also reminded voters, would later join the Supreme Court majority in 2022 in overturning Roe v. Wade.
But when one thinks about the “Believe All Women” strategy Democrats used against Kavanaugh, and also considers that Platner has denied recent allegations of physical abuse and obsessively controlling behavior from an ex-girlfriend who went on the record, one might conclude that, at this point, it might be wise for him to back off on reminders of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
But he isn’t, and Democrats aren’t. Instead, they are going full steam ahead, banking on manipulating Maine women over the Roe v. Wade issue:
Now, with Senate control on the line, Kavanaugh’s shadow is looming large in Maine in more ways than one. In 2018, Collins defended the Supreme Court nominee as he faced allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct that Democrats called disqualifying for a position of power. Kavanaugh denied the allegations, saying, “The truth is I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone, in high school or otherwise.”
Today, Collins is facing a Democratic opponent who is accused by an ex-girlfriend of being physically threatening, an allegation she calls “extremely troubling.” Meanwhile, Platner’s allies have observed that his accuser is a conservative advocate who fought to discredit Kavanaugh’s accusers in 2018 over allegations he adamantly denied.
The Democrats’ Senate Majority PAC found in March that using abortion “rights” against Susan Collins was a sure way to motivate Democratic voters in the state:
…a key Democratic super PAC, the Senate Majority PAC, is “highly likely” to run abortion-related ads in Maine in the general election that focus on Collins’ “anti-choice record,” a person with knowledge of the strategy told NBC News. It is the only battleground state where abortion-related ads from the left are expected to play a role in the midterms, this person added.
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In March, Senate Majority PAC’s own polling found that going after Collins on abortion, framing her as the deciding vote for the justices who overturned Roe, was the second-strongest issue to get traction with registered Democrats, behind healthcare and Medicaid cuts.
The problem here, though, is that Democratic voters in Maine appear to already be in Platner’s corner, considering he survived multiple controversies involving the Reddit posts, the Nazi tattoo, and the revelations that he sexted with up to a dozen women after he got married in November 2023. He will also need to win over independent voters, who won’t be nearly as easy to persuade as any holdout Democrat voters.
Plus, abortion is already legal in Maine, so centering an anti-Collins campaign around a “right” that voters in the state already have and won’t lose under the current leadership there seems a bit… dishonest.
With all of that in mind, I’m hard-pressed to figure out how inadvertently reminding Maine voters of his own scandals with women while bringing up the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings is viewed as a winning strategy by Platner and other Democrats:
Highlights how weak the book is on Collins.
The Kavanaugh confirmation was 8 years ago.
Democrats already ran an entire cycle attacking Collins over Kavanaugh 6 years ago – it failed.
Now Dems have a candidate LIGHTYEARS worse than Kavanaugh – and this is their best play? https://t.co/HjBtdX8Ufg
— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) June 11, 2026
"Let's bring up that time we told you to believe all women to convince you to vote for the guy whose women accusers we're telling you to ignore."
I don't have to explain to any of y'all why that's dumb. There isn't a democrat in the country capable of understanding it. https://t.co/tcl4AboO5u— Wonderbeard (@WonderbeardShow) June 11, 2026
I can’t think of a dumber strategy. Invoking Kavanaugh will only serve to showcase the allegations against Graham Platner.
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) June 11, 2026
Don't see how this helps Platner. They tried going back to the abortion well in 2024 and it ended up not being a big boon for the party.
And if Platner is gonna bring up the nonsense allegations against Kavanuagh, well, that's what we call opening the door. https://t.co/Pvck9DM2ov
— Kevin Tierney (@CatholicSmark) June 11, 2026
Indeed.
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Considering their candidate’s record with harassing women … it’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see how it works out for them …
Hendiadys. Using coordination instead of subordination, e.g. “try and use.”
Democrats smell like trash and want to be taken for perfume.
All the dirt on Platner has come from the Dems. The Rs are holding fire until he can’t be swapped out.
I ain’t buying the ‘swap him out’ narrative. If that was really the inside scoop then he wouldn’t keep getting endorsements and supporting cover from d/prog politicians. IMO the d/prog have picked their guy, are standing by him and gonna dance with him all the way to Nov.
That should go swimmingly well. It already stinks..
This is almost funny. Almost. Chuck Schumer is betting the farm (senate majority) on, what has to be, one of the worst candidates ever. This clown doesn’t have baggage. He has steamer trunks. And from what I hear it hasn’t all come out yet.
Are the Democrats really so desperate they’re going to pour millions into his candidacy? Let’s hope so.
They threw a billion bucks at Kamala Harris so I’m not surprised.
That billion spent on Kamala Harris saved them at least 4 Senate seats, so it was money well spent.
Not yet. The Democrats have a lot of states where they could flip the Senate (TX, OH, IA, NE, MT, NC, TX, ME, AK). They only need to win 4, and will certainly get at least 2. If Herr Comrade Öysterfürher fades before November, they will put more of their money into the more productive contests. The R’s will have to spend billions to retain those seats and to try to flip MI, GA, and NH. The D’s will spend more billions on the same 12 states.
First off, you listed Texas twice. Second, the Temu-Beto the dems nominated simply isn’t going to win.
“Throughout his campaign, Platner has used some of Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ votes in the Senate to portray her as too out of touch with Maine voters, though she’s repeatedly won reelection in the Pine Tree State.”
So by Democrat socialist standards, being a woman abusing, publicly self abusing Nazi IS in touch with Maine voters? That is the implication.
I can’t imagine why the Demsocialists are tanking in the approval polls.
Still, I am seriously reconsidering my reservations for a Maine vacation this year, and after. Can’t go if “Vacationland” is becoming a work camp.
it just may work this time here in maine.
I certainly do not carry water for Susan Collins. She may just as well caucus with the Democrats she’s that far to the left, but I watched her news conference when she announced her support of Kavanaugh’s nomination. She articulated her position very well and convincingly. The bottom line was that Kavanaugh’s accuser was simply not credible. At all.
“Platner has also reminded voters, would later join the Supreme Court majority in 2022 in overturning Roe v. Wade.“
Dobbs was 100% correct in overturning Roe; anyone who has actually read Alito’s eloquently written decision knows full well that Dobbs does not outlaw abortion, it just places the decision in the hands of voters in the states where it belongs. And abortion is fully legal in Maine (surprise, surprise). So what is the oystergrupenfeurer’s point here exactly?
which is why the blanket…thank you for your service has been twisted by lefty :
he bizarrely accused her of attacking and disrespecting veterans.
lefty is a tricky sob and has no boundaries
they are in it to murder it
they have taught us this throughout history but the good people keep compromising with them instead of defeating them
We need to do that with that idiot BUayden appointed
I don’t know about you all but i would vote to send the nazi to Iraq this very second and to send him naked as a jay bird with his little totenkopf swinging in the wind.
I am not a fan of Collins but this idiot Platner should not have even made the ballot and has a chance at being a US Senator. It is clear the Democrats have sunk to new lows. Dems have always used everything they can against their opponent even if it is not true. In Platner’s case he does not have much to throw at Collins and she has much more to hit him with. The big worry is fake ballots and mail-in ballots as seen in California.
Democrats ignoring the obvious differences between the accusations against Kavanaugh and platner. The accusations about Platner come from actual women who dated him. And not just one, multiple. His wife is the source of the sexting information. He’s admitted to some of it and made excuses for other parts.
There is still no indication that Kavanaugh ever met his accuser prior to the hearings.
So, if I got this right, Herr Platner is attacking his opponent, GOP Sen. Susan Collins, for casting the key vote that put Brett Kavanaugh on the SCOTUS, when he was accused of assaulting women in high school, like the same thing Platner is accused of doing to women just last week. Pass the popcorn …
No, it’s not ‘the same thing’ between Kavanaugh’s accuser and the multiple Platner accusers. Kavanaugh was a squeaky-clean candidate with significant accomplishments who had a leftist-funded nut come out of the woodwork with completely unsubstantuated and unverifiable claims, no witnesses, no nothing. Kinda reminds one of Carrol, doesn’t it?
No, because EVERYONE THERE SAID IT DID NOT HAPPEN. That included her best friend! In short, there witnesses to REBUT the woman’s lies.
With Platner, we have a closet Nazi with an SS death’s head tattoo and multiple women confirming he was an abuser and cheater.
Platner doesn’t deny being a cheater. He, if anything, seems to be proud of it. He bragged to at least one girlfriend that he’d rape anyone who invaded his home, just not in a gay way.
Even the woman’s BEST FRIEND said it didn’t happen. Not only but it was a so-called ‘repressed memory’ from repressed memory therapy which is, to be kind, nonsensical horse-crap.
Meanwhile Democrats are voting in a Nazi, woman abuser.
The Dems are putting a lot of money into Talarico in Texas, (mis)banking on some of the local problems that Paxton has had. Yes, he was impeached, but he successfully fought that off. Talarico brings some excess baggage just like Platner: a) the “multiple genders” thing which doesn’t play well with the socially conservative Latino crowd in South Texas; b) his strange theology claiming God is “nonbinary” – again a real turnoff in the Bible Belt; ad c) his carpetbagger-financed campaign that has always turned off Texas voters (see: Beta-cuck O’Rourke, Catheter Wendy, and of course Loudmouth Crockett who made fun of Governor Abbott). All of them received lots of outside money and it turned off voters, especially traditional swing-vote areas like the Valley.
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