What Alex Wagner has said about 2026 United States Senate election in Maine

Wagner argued that Platner's exit video absurdly implied his accuser was a crisis actor used by the Democratic establishment to push him out.

“I guess we're meant to believe that a rape victim is a crisis actor, and that crisis acting is being used by the Democratic establishment to get Graham Platner out of the race”

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Wagner called for moderated public debates or town halls among replacement candidates before delegates choose a nominee.

“I would love to see some kind of public format where they're, whether it's debate, town hall, whatever, that's moderated”

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Wagner worried that Nirav Shah's CDC background would bring COVID-related political baggage.

“but it's extra baggage in these insane and tumultuous times”

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Wagner said there was always latent misogyny in how Platner's supporters dismissed Janet Mills.

“I feel like there's like there was always like latent misogyny around it”

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Wagner cautioned against drawing broad conclusions about outsider candidates from the Platner case.

“Nobody should take a broad lesson about outsiders from the Platner”

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Wagner argued that if the allegations are true, Platner's masculinity is as toxic as what the right offers, undermining his appeal as an alternative.

“this kind of masculinity, if this stuff is true, is just as fucking toxic as everything being served on the right”

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