Gramerica: A Season-Long Journey into Graham Platner's 2026 Senate Race

Voters in Maine had barely digested the full extent ofGraham Platner’s incendiary Reddit history—and the lingering questions over his infamous skull-and-crossbones tattoo—when an entirely new controversy erupted. A former campaign manager leaked a story to the press revealing that Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, confided in her last year that in the early days of their marriage, Graham had been sexti...

Welcome back to Gramerica . After Governor Janet Mills’ abrupt exit from the field, oyster farmer and Marine veteran Graham Platner stands as the presumptive Democratic nominee in a fierce, one-on-one contest against the Republican incumbent, Senator Susan Collins. Following intense social media speculation, Collins has revealed she has been living with a neurological condition—a benign essential...

Welcome to Gramerica , a new series following the high-stakes Senate campaign of Graham Platner. In our premiere episode, Pip and Adrian unpack the improbable rise of this Maine oyster farmer and Marine veteran as he takes on the Titan of the Senate, Susan Collins. From launching a viral July video to quickly dispatching Democratic primary opponent Governor Janet Mills, Platner has completely upen...