POLITICSTHE HILL
How did we get Graham Platner and Ken Paxton? Voters can demand better.
Graham Platner was chosen by Democratic voters in Maine to be their party's Senate nominee, reflecting a trend of voters rewarding bad behavior and lowering the bar of acceptable behavior in politics.
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