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缅因州共和党州议员斯图尔特：普拉特纳删除的帖文与拒不道歉使其丧失参选联邦参议员资格
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缅因州共和党州议员特雷··斯图尔特警告称，民主党人为捍卫有争议的缅因州联邦参议员候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳，正“出卖自己的灵魂”，如果普拉特纳在11月的参议院选举中获胜，民主党将滑向“危险境地”。
“选民非常在意此事，”斯图尔特告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他谈及外界对普拉特纳的批评愈演愈烈，包括他删除的社交媒体帖文——帖文中他自称“共产主义者”“社会主义者”、使用疑似仇视同性恋的 slur、贬低军队。
“我认为，眼下在那些不惜一切代价也要击败苏珊·柯林斯的极端自由派民主党人眼中，他只是昙花一现，但他们真正在做的，是为一个胸前纹有与纳粹相关纹身的人出卖灵魂。他还发表过诽谤言论，对在战斗中受伤的退伍军人发表过极其丑陋、令人发指的言论，还有种族主义、偏执且厌女的言论。可以说，左翼人士用来妖魔化右翼的那些罪名，他实际上都犯了，而且有迹可循。”
斯图尔特表示，他有信心连任五届的共和党现任联邦参议员苏珊·柯林斯将在“走中间路线”的缅因州“再次获胜”，尽管民调显示普拉特纳领先。他称普拉特纳的竞选“不会成功”，因为“缅因州民众并不认同普拉特纳的那套想法”。
苏珊·柯林斯对民主党和特朗普的攻击不以为意，称缅因州选民“不会按党派立场投票”
缅因州共和党州议员特雷··斯图尔特表示，支持缅因州联邦参议员候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳的民主党人，将在选民面前遭遇当头一棒。（福克斯新闻数字频道；索菲··帕克/盖蒂图片社）
“苏珊·柯林斯是美国参议院中最具影响力的议员之一，即便不是最具影响力的那位，无疑也在财政和其他方面对缅因州产生了巨大影响，她必将获胜，”他说，“这是因为，归根结底，缅因州是一个走中间路线的州。”
这并非柯林斯首次遭遇进步派挑战者在民调中后来居上。2020年，柯林斯始终落后于前缅因州众议院议长萨拉·吉迪恩，有时民调差距达两位数，但最终在该州历史上耗资最巨的选举之一中成功连任。
斯图尔特称，缅因州选民通常会拒绝极右翼和极左翼候选人，普拉特纳的“极端立场”不会在11月的选举中得到选民的认可。
总体而言，斯图尔特表示，民主党人支持普拉特纳这一“令人尴尬”的决定，反映出该党如今的整体处境，并暴露出党内一场“灵魂拷问”式的问题。
登上热搜的红迪网帖文困扰格雷厄姆·普拉特纳的缅因州参议院竞选
联邦参议员苏珊·柯林斯，R-缅因州，2025年7月1日在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦，参议院彻夜议事结束后，她抱着一条毯子离开参议院会场。（安德鲁·哈尼克/盖蒂图片社）
“我觉得这非常尴尬，民主党如今竟然沦落到这般田地，不只是在缅因州，而是在全美范围内，出现了最极端的‘狗摇尾巴’式局面，”他说，“也许这就是缅因州乃至全美民主党正在走向的方向，”他补充道，“如果真是这样，那最终对他们来说将是非常危险的境地，对我们国家来说也是如此。”
普拉特纳曾是美国海军陆战队退伍军人，在伊拉克和阿富汗执行过四次战斗部署，他因删除的红迪网帖文面临一系列审查，也遭到共和党人的猛烈批评，他们认为他没有就此作出充分解释或道歉。
民主党人在对丑闻缠身的缅因州候选人立场软化后，遭到左右两派抨击
缅因州联邦参议员候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳的竞选纲领是进步主义经济政策，重点是对亿万富翁征税并降低美国工薪阶层的生活成本。（乔·雷德尔/盖蒂图片社）
在2019年6月的一篇帖文中，普拉特纳嘲讽了紫心勋章获得者泰迪·丹尼尔斯的一段视频——丹尼尔斯在2012年与塔利班武装人员的交火中身中四枪，普拉特纳称丹尼尔斯“不配活着”。
“普拉特纳在周末福克斯新闻数字频道拍摄的一段视频中，拒绝为该评论道歉或承认后悔。”
“他本应采取正确的行动，”斯图尔特说，“至少，他应该为自己发表过极具冒犯性言论的对象道歉。但除此之外，美国参议院的席位，对他这样的人来说完全是遥不可及的。”
“他确实需要帮助，”斯图尔特说，“他不需要美国参议院的席位。”
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缅因州民主党州长珍妮特·米尔斯上月宣布退出参议院竞选后，普拉特纳成为6月9日民主党初选中的推定候选人，该初选将选出11月对阵柯林斯的候选人。
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Democrats ‘selling their soul’ to embrace Platner are in for rude awakening with Maine voters: GOP lawmaker
May 29, 2026 7:31am EDT / Fox News
Maine GOP State Sen. Stewart says Platner’s deleted posts and refusal to apologize disqualify him from the U.S. Senate
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Maine Republican state Sen. Trey Stewart is warning that Democrats are “selling their soul” by defending controversial Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and that the Democratic Party is moving to a “dangerous place” if he wins a Senate seat in November.
“The voters care a lot,” Stewart told Fox News Digital about the mounting criticisms of Platner, including deleted social posts where he described himself as a “communist” and “socialist,” used alleged homophobic slurs, and disparaged the military.
“I think that he’s a flash in the pan for right now amongst extreme liberal Democrats who can’t see past defeating Susan Collins at any cost, and what they’re really doing is selling their soul to somebody who has a tattoo that’s affiliated with the Nazis on his chest,has made slanderous remarks, really pretty ugly and horrifying remarks about veterans who have been injured in combat, racist and bigoted statements that were misogynist, so literally everything that you hear the left trying to villainize the right about, he’s actually guilty of and there’s a track record of this.”
Stewart said he is confident five-term incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins will remain “victorious” in “middle-of-the-road” Maine, despite Platner leading in the polls, saying that the Platner campaign is “not going to work” because “Maine people don’t subscribe to that line of thinking that Mr. Platner does.”
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Maine Republican State Sen. Trey Stewart said Democrats supporting Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner will face a rude awakening with voters.(Fox News Digital ; Sophie Park/Getty Images)
“Susan Collins, who is one of, if not the most influential votes in the United States Senate, and certainly an incredible influence financially and otherwise for the state of Maine, is going to be victorious,” he said. “That’s because Maine, at the end of the day, is a middle-of-the-road state.”
This isn’t the first time Collins has seen a progressive challenger surge in the polls. In 2020, Collins consistently trailed former Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, sometimes by double digits in the polls, before ultimately winning re-election in one of the most expensive races in state history.
Stewart says that Maine voters typically reject both far-right and far-left candidates and that Platner’s “extreme position is not going to be something that voters reward here in November.”
Overall, Stewart said Democrats’ “embarrassing” decision to stand behind Platner reflects where the party stands today as a whole and exposes a “soul-searching” problem within the party.
TOP OFF-THE-WALL REDDIT POSTS HAUNTING GRAHAM PLATNER’S MAINE SENATE BID
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, holds a blanket as she walks off the Senate floor after the chamber stayed in session throughout the night at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 1, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“I find it highly embarrassing that this is where the Democrat party is, not just in the state of Maine, but across the country at this point, with the most extreme sort of tail-wagging-the-dog effect,” he said. “Maybe that is the direction that the Democrat party in Maine and in our country is going,” he said. “If it is, then ultimately that’s going to be a very dangerous place for them and a very dangerous place for our country.”
Platner, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has faced a wave of scrutiny over his deleted Reddit posts and has been heavily criticized by Republicans who say he has not adequately explained or apologized for them.
DEMOCRAT BLASTED BY LEFT AND RIGHT AFTER SOFTENING STANCE ON SCANDAL-HIT MAINE CANDIDATE
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has campaigned on progressive economic policies focused on taxing billionaires and lowering costs for working-class Americans.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
In a post from June 2019, Platner mocked a video of Purple Heart veteran Teddy Daniels being shot four times during a 2012 clash with Taliban fighters, saying Daniels “didn’t deserve to live.”
“Platner declined to apologize or acknowledge regret over the comment in a video taken by Fox News Digital over the weekend.
“This is not the right course of action that he should be taking,” Stewart said. “If anything, he owes a number of apologies to the people who he has said highly offensive things to. But beyond that, certainly United States Senate is something that is completely out of grasp for an individual like this.”
He really just needs help,” Stewart said. “He doesn’t need a seat in the United States Senate.”
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Following Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ announcement to end her campaign for Senate last month, Platner became the Democrats’ presumptive nominee in the June 9 primary to decide who will face Collins in November.
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
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