“The Enemy Is Billionaires,” U.S. Senate Candidate in Maine Declares

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“The enemy is billionaires,” a new ad for a Maine U.S. Senate candidate declares.

“The enemy is billionaires,” a new entrant to the U.S. Senate race in Maine declares in an introductory video.

The video was reportedly produced by Morris Katz, a close aide to the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani. Katz also promoted the Senate candidate in a social media post: “He’s going to defeat Susan Collins & he’s going to be a Senator who relentlessly fights the egregious income inequality that’s destroying this country.”

The video, for a candidate named Graham Platner, is a sign that other Democrats nationwide will try to replicate Mamdani’s strident socialism and hope that it will be a winning political message for them.

The video features a tattooed Platner splitting wood with a maul.

“We have watched this state become essentially unlivable for working class people, and it makes me deeply angry,” Platner says in the video. “The fabric of what holds us together is being ripped apart by billionaires and corrupt politicians profiting off of destroying our environment, driving our families into poverty, and crushing the middle class.”

“I did four infantry tours in the marine corps and the army. I’m not afraid to name an enemy, and the enemy is the oligarchy, it’s the billionaires who pay for it, the politicians who sell us out,” Platner says.