2026年7月7日 美国东部时间中午12:40 / 《华盛顿邮报》
民主党人急于找到能挑战参议员苏珊·柯林斯（R-缅因州）的强劲候选人时，本应对本党提名候选人进行更彻底的背景审查。
格雷厄姆·普莱特纳以压倒性优势赢得缅因州民主党初选。（索菲·帕克/盖蒂图片社）
卡伦·图姆蒂 评论
推动这位41岁缅因州牡蛎养殖户、退伍军人崭露头角的自由派活动人士犯下了致命误判，这并非因为他们没有审查格雷厄姆·普莱特纳。
而是因为在如今这种不惜一切代价争取胜利的政治环境中，他们认为自己根本不需要这么做。
What Graham Platner’s rise and unraveling reveal about the politics of 2026
2026-07-07 12:40 p.m. EDT / The Washington Post
In their rush to find a strong candidate to run against Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Democrats should have more thoroughly vetted their party’s nominee.
Graham Platner won the Democratic primary in Maine by a wide margin. (Sophie Park/Getty Images)
Analysis by Karen Tumulty
The fatal miscalculation by the liberal activists who fueled the rise of an unknown 41-year-old Maine oyster farmer and combat veteran was not that they failed to vet Graham Platner.
It was that, in today’s win-at-all-costs political environment, they didn’t think they needed to.
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