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What’s the Difference Between a Platner Senate and a Collins Senate?
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What’s the Difference Between a Platner Senate and a Collins Senate?

If consequentialism tempts you to vote for a creep, first weigh the actual consequences.
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Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photo by Graeme Sloan/Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images).

Evidence continues to pour in that Graham Platner, the likely Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, is a man of deplorable character. 

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Platner had an active account—with a shirtless profile photo—on the private messaging app Kik and that he was sending sexually explicit texts to at least six women after he married his wife three short years ago.

John McCormack is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was Washington correspondent at National Review and a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. When John is not reporting on politics and policy, he is probably enjoying life with his wife and daughters in northern Virginia or having fun visiting family in Wisconsin.

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