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备忘录显示，普拉特纳每一季度的筹款额都超过柯林斯，且比哈里斯的得票优势高出7个百分点
作者：查尔斯·克莱茨、亚历克西斯·麦卡达姆 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年6月10日 美国东部时间下午3:08
普拉特纳发表初选胜利演讲
格雷厄姆·普拉特纳周二发表演讲，承认过往不足，并批评现任共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯。（图片来源：马修·赛蒙斯 福克斯新闻数字频道）
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参议院共和党人警告称，如果共和党不重视这场选举，丑闻缠身的牡蛎养殖户格雷厄姆·普拉特纳仍有可能击败缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯。
共和党人正在多场预计势均力敌的选举中捍卫多个席位，包括内布拉斯加州、艾奥瓦州、北卡罗来纳州、俄亥俄州和得克萨斯州，同时还试图拿下佐治亚州的席位。但缅因州的情况不同：共和党人在周三传阅的一份备忘录中表示，苏珊·柯林斯的席位是2024年卡玛拉·哈里斯拿下的州中仅有的共和党持有参议院席位，这使得民主党能够最直接地帮助纽约州民主党参议员查克·舒穆尔重回多数党领袖办公室。
福克斯新闻获取到的美国全国共和党参议员委员会（NRSC）这份致“相关方”的备忘录中写道：“认为普拉特纳败选已定的想法是致命的错误。”
美国全国共和党参议员委员会认为，缅因州是今年35个参议院席位选举的“关键枢纽”。尽管普拉特纳身上有纳粹纹身、被指控存在厌女暴力行为、被曝在移动公厕里对灭虫剂产生生理反应，并且其政策纲领带有社会主义色彩，但他仍是温和派柯林斯的可信威胁。
观看视频：缅因州关键初选临近，选民就普拉特纳的分裂性竞选言论发声：“他就是个耻辱”
2026年5月24日，在缅因州奥罗诺市缅因大学的柯林斯艺术中心举办的“对抗寡头政治”巡回活动上，佛蒙特州独立参议员伯尼·桑德斯与民主党参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳同框。（图片来源：乔·雷德莱/盖蒂图片社）
美国全国共和党参议员委员会表示：“柯林斯参议员之前曾赢下过艰难的选举，也能赢得这次的选举，但前提是我们必须以十足的紧迫感应对当前局势。”
“由于民主党如果失去柯林斯的席位就无法夺回参议院多数党地位，因此他们已经全面团结在格雷厄姆·普拉特纳身边——这位候选人本身存在严重缺陷，是极左翼人士，且已于昨晚获得党内提名。普拉特纳获得了民主党阵营的资金支持，自参选以来每一季度的筹款额都超过了柯林斯参议员。我们必须在竞选活力和资金投入上都与之匹敌，才能保住这个席位。”备忘录中写道。
美国全国共和党参议员委员会表示，民主党并未将普拉特纳的竞选视为关于这位有缺陷的候选人本身，而是将其视为夺权的机会。
柯林斯在缅因州参议院角逐中获得共和党提名，这场选举或将决定共和党是否能守住多数席位
该委员会指出，普拉特纳的多起丑闻中的任何一件都足以让大多数竞选活动宣告终结，但民主党仍团结在他周围。美国全国共和党参议员委员会披露，在前女友林赛·费尔菲尔德对普拉特纳的指控曝光后，普拉特纳单日筹款20万美元，其竞选团队称这是本届竞选周期中筹款表现最佳的一次。
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美国全国共和党参议员委员会表示：“缅因州的政治基本盘仍然对我们不利，认为普拉特纳败选已定的想法是致命的错误。”
柯林斯是新英格兰地区仅剩的联邦共和党公职人员，也是宾夕法尼亚州以北和以东地区唯一的共和党参议员。
美国全国共和党参议员委员会报告称，普拉特纳的得票表现比哈里斯的得票优势高出7个百分点，同时指出柯林斯过去曾赢下艰难选举，但这次的情况有所不同。
柯林斯上一次竞选参议员时以约8个百分点的优势击败了前缅因州众议院议长萨拉·吉迪恩，她上一次选举失利还要追溯到1994年，当时现任缅因州独立参议员安格斯·金在四方竞选中赢得了州长职位。
共和党人在备忘录中表示，过去一周关于普拉特纳最大的新闻并非他的最新丑闻，而是民主党反而更加紧密地团结在他周围，甚至“为他撑腰”。
观看视频：民主党参议员在与处境艰难的缅因州候选人举行的紧急磋商中为普拉特纳的行为辩解
2026年6月9日，格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州布鲁姆希尔的基督教青年会赢得民主党参议院候选人提名后，向支持者发表演讲。普拉特纳将在此次参议院席位选举中对阵共和党现任议员苏珊·柯林斯。（图片来源：马修·赛蒙斯 福克斯新闻数字频道）
他们援引了硅谷籍众议员罗·卡纳访问缅因州，与普拉特纳进行一场充满溢美之词的访谈兼宣传活动，以及民主党不断声称柯林斯和特朗普比这位左翼候选人更糟糕的事例。
美国全国共和党参议员委员会援引拜登前副竞选经理罗布·弗雷厄特的话称：“该做什么就得做什么。”同时指出罗德岛州参议员谢尔登·怀特豪斯公开声称普拉特纳的种种过失“根本不值一提”。
他们还提到，一位最具影响力的民主党策略师曾宣称，普拉特纳的缺陷实际上反而提升了他的参选资格。
普拉特纳曾诋毁前宾夕法尼亚州副州长候选人泰迪·丹尼尔斯，此前一段关于这位紫心勋章获得者多年前被塔利班围攻并身受重伤的视频被曝光。
“我们遇到了一个混账东西，哪怕他再混账一百倍，也比不上华盛顿那帮混账东西，”1992年比尔·克林顿竞选团队的核心策划者詹姆斯·卡维尔说道，他还表示普拉特纳所表现出的创伤后应激障碍应该成为国会山上的一个标志，用以证明新保守主义者在战争权力问题上的错误。
“这不是民主党抛弃自己的候选人，而是民主党在合理化、接受并准备为其战斗，”美国全国共和党参议员委员会表示。
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“共和党人需要立刻跟上这种紧迫感。明确抨击普拉特纳。捍卫柯林斯。为缅因州的竞选提供资源支持，”他们说道。“柯林斯参议员一次又一次地证明，凭借她的工作态度以及对缅因州人民和美国的承诺，她终将获胜。”
“这场选举可以赢，但不会自动获胜。”
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Republicans fear of ‘fatal mistake’ in must-win Platner race
2026-06-10T15:08:31-04:00 / Fox News
Platner has outraised Collins every quarter and is beating Kamala Harris’ margins by seven points, memo says
By Charles Creitz, Alexis McAdams Fox News
Published June 10, 2026 3:08pm EDT
Platner delivers primary victory speech
Graham Platner delivered a speech Tuesday acknowledging past shortcomings and criticizing incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. (Credit: Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)
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Senate Republicans are warning that scandal-plagued oysterman Graham Platner could still defeat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, if the party fails to take the race seriously.
Republicans are defending several seats in expectedly close races, including Nebraska, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas, while seeking to flip Georgia. Maine is different: Sen. Susan Collins’ seat is the only Republican-held Senate seat in a state won by Kamala Harris in 2024, making it Democrats’ most direct path to returning Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., to the majority leader’s office, Republicans said in a memo circulated Wednesday.
“It is a fatal mistake to assume Platner is too damaged to win,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) memo obtained by Fox News — addressed to “Interested Parties” — read.
The NRSC agreed that Maine is the “linchpin” of the 35 seats up this year and that despite Platner’s Nazi tattoo, allegations of misogynist violence, arousal from biocide in port-a-johns, and his socialist policy platform, he remains a credible threat to the middle-of-the-road Collins.
SEE IT: MAINE VOTERS SOUND OFF ON PLATNER’S DIVISIVE CAMPAIGN AS CRUCIAL PRIMARY NEARS: ‘HE’S A DISGRACE’
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner stood together during a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus on May 24, 2026, in Orono, Maine.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
“Senator Collins has won tough races before and can win this one, but only if we meet this moment with total urgency,” the NRSC said.
“Because Democrats cannot win the majority without Collins’ seat, they have fully rallied around Graham Platner, an extremely flawed, far-left candidate who secured the nomination last night. Platner has captured his party’s financial backing, outraising Senator Collins in every quarter since entering the race. We must match both the energy and the money to retain the seat,” the memo said.
The NRSC said Democrats don’t view Platner’s race as being about the flawed candidate but rather about usurping power.
COLLINS SECURES GOP NOD IN MAINE SENATE BATTLE THAT COULD DECIDE GOP MAJORITY
The committee said any one of Platner’s multiple scandals would have ended most campaigns, but Democrats remain united around him. The NRSC reported that after former girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield’s allegations against Platner broke, Platner raised $200,000 in one day in what the campaign said was its best haul of the cycle.
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“The political fundamentals in Maine remain challenging, and it is a fatal mistake to assume Platner is too damaged to win,” the NRSC said.
Collins is the last remaining federal Republican in New England and the only Republican in the Senate north or east of Pennsylvania.
The NRSC reported that Platner is beating Harris’ own margins by seven points while noting Collins has won tough races in the past, but this one is different.
Collins won her last race against former Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon by about eight points, and her last electoral loss was way back in 1994 when now-Sen. Angus King Jr., I-Maine, won the governorship in a four-way contest.
Republicans said in the memo that the biggest story in the past week about Platner is not his latest scandal, but the fact that Democrats are circling the wagons around him even more tightly and “propping him up.”
WATCH: DEM SENATORS EXCUSE PLATNER’S CONDUCT AT CRISIS HUDDLE WITH EMBATTLED MAINE CANDIDATE
Graham Platner addresses the crowd at his watch party after winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate at a YMCA in Blue Hill, Maine, on June 9, 2026. Platner will face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the election for the seat.(Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)
They cited Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna visiting Maine to hold a gushy interview-slash-ad with Platner and the fact that Democrats keep claiming Collins and Trump are worse than the left-winger.
“Gotta do what you gotta do,” the NRSC quoted former Biden deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty, while noting that Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse publicly claimed Platner’s foibles are a “lot of nothing.”
They also pointed to one of the most influential Democratic operatives claiming that Platner’s flaws actually bolster his qualifications.
Platner had disparaged former Pennsylvania lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Teddy Daniels after video of the Purple Heart recipient being besieged and gravely wounded by the Taliban surfaced several years ago.
“We’ve got a f—ed up guy who could be 100 times more f—ed up than he is and he’d never be as f—ed up as what we’ve got in Washington,” said 1992 Bill Clinton campaign architect James Carville, who suggested that Platner’s apparent PTSD should be a symbol on the Hill as to why neoconservatives have been wrong about war powers.
“This is not a party abandoning its nominee. This is a party rationalizing, accepting, and preparing to fight,” the NRSC said.
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“Republicans need to match that urgency immediately. Define Platner. Defend Collins. Resource Maine,” they said. “Senator Collins has proven time and time again, through her work ethic and commitment to the people of Maine and America, that she will prevail.”
“This race can be won, but it will not win itself.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the NRSC, DSCC, Platner campaign and Collins campaign for further comment.
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.
Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.
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