Bernie Sanders boosts Susan Collins’s challenger at rally
the article reports that Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) endorsed Graham platner, a Democratic challenger to Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), during a “Fight the Oligarchy” rally held in Portland, Maine, on Labor Day. Around 6,500 people attended the event at the Cross Insurance Arena. Sanders highlighted concerns about the influence of billionaires on both the Republican and Democratic parties, describing the U.S. as an oligarchy dominated by wealthy elites.
Platner,one of six Democrats running to replace Collins,expressed his commitment to defeating the “oligarchy” and Susan Collins,emphasizing the need for genuine political change outside the prevailing corporate influence. Maine’s Governor Janet Mills, who is term-limited, is not intending to run for Senate. the article also references ongoing Democratic efforts targeting Collins, including criticism related to congressional stock trading.
the Washington Examiner reached out to Susan Collins for comment, but no response is noted in the report.
Bernie Sanders boosts Susan Collins’s challenger at rally
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spent Labor Day giving a platform to Graham Platner, a Democratic challenger to Sen. Susan Collins (D-ME).
Platner joined Sanders in Portland, Maine, on Monday for a Fight the Oligarchy rally. Sanders endorsed Platner over the weekend.
“Together with the labor movement of Maine, together with @BernieSanders,” Platner wrote on X. “We will defeat the oligarchy, and we will defeat Susan Collins.”
According to Sanders, roughly 6,500 filled the Cross Insurance Arena.
“In a nation in which we have a handful of billionaires controlling our economy, our media, our government, we are living in an oligarchy, and that is the struggle we have got to take on,” Sanders said at the rally.
“But it is not just Republicans. It is also the fact that billionaires play a much too significant role in the Democratic Party as well,” Sanders said.
Platner is one of six Democratic candidates vying for Collins’s seat. Even though Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has reached her term limit, she asserted that she is not planning to campaign for the Senate.
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“Support must be earned, and that will never happen as long as Democrats are part of the same corporate apparatus that the Republicans are,” Platner said Monday.
The Washington Examiner has reached out to Collins for comment.
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