Graham Platner Addresses his Supporters in Blue Hill This Evening After Becoming the Democratic Nomination for the Senate from Maine.

Graham Platner is now the Democratic nominee for United States Senate, the culmination of one of the most remarkable grassroots campaigns Maine has ever seen — and a signal that voters are hungry for a different kind of politics according to a press release received from the Platner campaign late this evening.

Ben Chin, Campaign Manager, said:  “Graham Platner is the Democratic nominee for United States Senate and we are grateful to every Mainer who made that possible and who helped build the movement.

“This was not an easy campaign.  It was never meant to be.  Real change isn’t easy.  As Graham says, the system is not broken.  It is working exactly the way people like Susan Collis and her billionaire donors designed it to work — to protect their power and shut everyone else up and out.

“Graham has always understood that.  And he’s always understood that the only way to change it is together.  Democrats, Repblicans, Independents and anyone else in this state who is tired of watching their senator serve the powerful at their expense.

“Collins and her donors have spent years telling Mainers that this is just how things are.  To deal with.  Tonight, Maine said otherwise.  Graham Platner is going to Washington to break that system open — and build something new, something better, something that actually works for the people of this state.

‘GRAHAM WILL BE A SENATOR MONEY CAN’T BUY.”