{"id":14900,"date":"2025-10-27T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/graham-platners-new-campaign-manager-leaves-operation-after-joining-just-days-ago\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:17:00","slug":"graham-platners-new-campaign-manager-leaves-operation-after-joining-just-days-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/graham-platners-new-campaign-manager-leaves-operation-after-joining-just-days-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Platner\u2019s new campaign manager leaves operation after joining just days ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Graham Platner\u2019s campaign manager is stepping down after less than a week on the job, the latest departure on a campaign that has seen several high-profile shake-ups in recent weeks as it attempts to fend off a string of controversies.<\/p>\n

The move, which was first reported by Axious<\/a>, comes as the Maine Senate candidate has attracted a wave of criticism for troves of unearthed Reddit posts in which he endorsed political violence,<\/a> downplayed concerns<\/a> about sexual assault in the military and self-identified as a communist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Graham is a dear friend,\u201d Kevin Brown, the former campaign manager, told Blue Light News in a statement Monday. \u201cI started this campaign Tuesday but found out Friday we have a baby on the way. Graham deserves someone who is 100% in on his race and we want to lean into this new experience as a family so it was best we step back sooner than later so Graham can get the Manager he deserves.”<\/p>\n

The progressive oyster farmer running to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins has attempted to turn the page<\/a> on the since-deleted comments, explaining in a video that the comments reflected his mental state following his military deployment to Afghanistan and that they are not representative of his present views.<\/p>\n

Blue Light News reported on Thursday<\/a> that Brown, who has worked for Democrats like Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren, joined the campaign as manager after Genevieve McDonald, Platner\u2019s former political director, resigned.<\/p>\n

The campaign has also brought on an in-house attorney and hired a compliance firm tied to progressive candidates, in addition to sending non-disclosure agreements to staffers, Blue Light News previously reported.<\/p>\n

His campaign has also been bogged down by controversy surrounding a tattoo<\/a> that resembles a Nazi symbol. Platner has said that he was not aware of the symbol\u2019s implications when he got it nearly two decades ago and has since had the tattoo covered up.<\/p>\n

Still, Platner has continued to poll ahead<\/a> of his Democratic primary opponent, Maine Gov. Janet Mills, despite the party establishment throwing its weight behind Mills\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graham Platner\u2019s campaign manager is stepping down after less than a week on the job, the latest departure on a campaign that has seen several high-profile shake-ups in recent weeks as it attempts to fend off a string of controversies. The move, which was first reported by Axious, comes as the Maine Senate candidate has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}