From AOC to Graham Platner: Why voters' desire for a 'regular person' candidate is on the rise

Primary voters have chosen oyster farmer and former Marine Graham Platner as their David in a battle to unseat Maine Senator Susan Collins – a formidable Goliath of an opponent. Maine voters might be thinking of Platner as their own Zohran Mamdani or AOC, even as his controversies — from a Nazi tattoo to infidelity to slurs — have snowballed. Is this the cost of doing business when a party chooses a regular guy over a career politician?

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