‘Baby on the Way’: Platner’s New Campaign Manager Quits 3 Days Into Job, Citing Pregnant Wife
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign manager resigned after just three days on the job, citing his wife’s pregnancy and his desire to “lean into this new experience as a family.”
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‘National Disgrace’: Largest Federal Workers’ Union Rips Into Democrats, Demands Government Reopening
With the government shutdown nearing the one-month mark, the nation’s largest union representing federal workers, a close Democratic ally, is demanding that Democratic senators join Republicans in passing a House-approved resolution to reopen the government.
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‘Baby on the Way’: Platner’s New Campaign Manager Quits 3 Days Into Job, Citing Pregnant Wife
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign manager resigned after just three days on the job, citing his wife’s pregnancy and his desire to “lean into this new experience as a family.”
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‘National Disgrace’: Largest Federal Workers’ Union Rips Into Democrats, Demands Government Reopening
With the government shutdown nearing the one-month mark, the nation’s largest union representing federal workers, a close Democratic ally, is demanding that Democratic senators join Republicans in passing a House-approved resolution to reopen the government.
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Cuomo narrows gap in new poll
Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has maintained a double-digit lead in a new poll — but Andrew Cuomo has narrowed the gap significantly.
The mayoral race has gained national prominence as more Democratic leaders have tossed their fortunes behind the socialist and extremist candidate, while Cuomo has tried to shore up the centrist vote.
‘You don’t know how to run a government, you don’t know how to handle an emergency, and you’ve literally never proposed a bill on anything that you’re now talking about.’
A Suffolk poll released Monday showed that Mamdani’s lead of 20 percentage points from September had shrunk to 10 points.
Mamdani had support from 44% of the respondents, while Cuomo had 34%. Outsider Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa also increased his support slightly from 9% to 11%.
Suffolk’s political research center director David Paleologos said that Cuomo had made the biggest gains with Hispanics and independents.
Cuomo went on the attack against Mamdani’s extremism and inexperience in their recent debate, which will be the last of the election. Mamdani fired back to paint Cuomo as the face of failed policies of the establishment party.
“You have never had a job. You’ve never accomplished anything!” said Cuomo at the debate.
“There is no reason to believe you have any merit or qualification for eight and a half million lives!” he added. “You don’t know how to run a government, you don’t know how to handle an emergency, and you’ve literally never proposed a bill on anything that you’re now talking about in your campaign!”
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Many have been calling on Sliwa to drop out in hopes that his supporters would mostly go to Cuomo, and the Suffolk poll appeared to support that thesis. It showed that far more Sliwa voters supported Cuomo as a second choice than those who supported Mamdani.
Mamdani would become the first Muslim mayor of the Big Apple if he is able to win the election. He was born in Kampala, Uganda.
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Democratic Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner’s New Campaign Manager Lasts Less Than A Week
‘I did used to love America’
Mamdani: The Real Victim Of 9/11 Was My Muslim Aunt
Ugandan-born socialist candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani suggested Friday that the real victim of the September 11, 2001 Islamic terrorist attacks was his Muslim aunt. Speaking to voters outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx, Mamdani said “The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated as any other New […]
Second key staffer leaves campaign of Democratic Senate candidate embroiled in Nazi, communism controversies
Graham Platner, the Maine-based oyster farmer running as a Democrat to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins, has lost a great deal more in recent days than his sizeable lead over Gov. Janet Mills in the polls.
Just days after former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald resigned as political director of Platner’s campaign, the Democratic candidate’s longtime friend Kevin Brown indicated he too was jumping ship, leaving the role of campaign manager open.
‘Graham deserves someone who is 100% in on his race.’
Earlier this month, numerous damning posts previously made by Platner on Reddit came to light — including posts where he apparently identified as a communist, branded rural white Americans as racists, suggested service members worried about being raped should buy “Kevlar underwear,” joked about homosexuals, promoted political violence, and smeared all police officers as “bastards.”
McDonald promptly resigned as the political director of Platner’s campaign over the posts, noting, “These statements were not known to me when I agreed to join the campaign, and they are not words or values I can stand behind in a candidate for the United States Senate.”
Shortly after Platner apologized for his past remarks on Reddit, footage went viral revealing that he had an apparent “totenkopf” tattoo on his chest — a skull image popularized by Adolf Hitler’s SS elite guard and adopted as the symbol of the SS-Totenkopfverbande, the branch that guarded the concentration camps.
While Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and — according to a recent poll — the majority of young Democrats recently indicated that they will stick with Platner despite his incendiary posts and apparent Nazi tattoo, Brown, a Democratic operative who worked on Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s failed presidential campaign, has revealed he is jumping ship.
Brown indicated that the move, first reported by Axios, was the result of new familial demands on his time.
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Brown said in a statement obtained by WGME-TV, “Graham is a dear friend. I 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,” Brown added.
Brown’s departure comes just after the Platner campaign reportedly began sending nondisclosure agreements to staffers.
McDonald told Politico that the campaign offered her $15,000 to sign an NDA, but the campaign suggested this amount was a severance payment.
A spokesperson for the campaign indicated that the consulting firm Spruce Street was recently hired to “take over campaign compliance to institute standard practices that had yet to be put into place. Some of those standards had to be instituted retroactively, but as a matter of course we do not require anyone previously involved in the campaign to do so,” apparently referring to signing an NDA.
Blaze News has reached out to Platner’s campaign for comment.
A SoCal Strategies Maine poll of 500 likely Democratic primary voters conducted October 21-25 found that Mills, who officially jumped into the race on Oct. 14, holds a 5-point lead over Platner, 41%-36%.
Prior to the news of Platner’s alleged Nazi tattoo — which the Mainer recently had inked over with supposed Celtic imagery — a University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll indicated that among those who plan to vote in the 2026 state Democratic primary, 58% of respondents said they would support him, and only 24% said they would support Mills.
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Mass shootings at, near 2 historically black colleges on their homecoming weekends raise concerns about possible deadly trend
Mass shootings at and near a pair of historically black colleges and universities over their homecoming weekends Friday and Saturday left one dead and at least 11 wounded, authorities said.
The violence was an eerie repeat of tragedies that took place last fall at two HBCUs — also during their homecoming festivities — and some observers are concerned about a possible trend.
‘This is becoming an every-year occurrence at a lot of schools.’
1 dead, 6 wounded at Lincoln University
At Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania — about an hour and 15 minutes west of Philadelphia — one person was killed and at least six people were wounded after a shooting Saturday evening, WHP-TV reported.
Officials identified one suspect as 21-year-old Zecqueous Morgan-Thompson, the station said, adding that court documents indicated he was charged with carrying a firearm without a license and was being held in Chester County Prison on $25,000 bail.
Officials said they believe the suspects did not attend homecoming with the intent to commit a mass shooting, WHP reported.
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A 25-year-old male from Wilmington, Delaware, was identified as the deceased victim, the station said, adding that he reportedly was shot in the head. The six wounded victims are expected to survive and are in the same age range — between 20 and 25 years old, WHP said.
Lincoln University’s president in a Sunday statement said classes are canceled Monday in order to have a day of “healing and reflection,” the station said.
More from WHP:
Authorities have not released the names of any victims. The DA said they were in the process of speaking with victims to learn more about what happened during the shooting.
Lincoln University’s police chief said the shots were fired in the parking lot of the International Cultural Center on campus. He said at the time there was a tailgate ceremony taking place following the college’s homecoming football game. He said tents and other tables were set up throughout the lot.
5 wounded near Howard University
Five people were shot near Howard University — a historically black college and university in Washington, D.C. — on Friday night during its homecoming weekend, WRC-TV reported.
D.C. police said the victims — four adults and a teenager — were taken to hospitals and were expected to survive after the shooting at Georgia Avenue and Howard Place, the station said.
Witnesses told WRC that dozens of people ran down Georgia Avenue from the shooting scene to a McDonald’s after shots were fired.
According to a statement from Howard University, a fight or confrontation between two suspects occurred before shots were fired, WRC reported, adding that police said none of the shooting victims are Howard students.
The university added in a Saturday statement that nobody from Howard was involved in the shooting, the station reported.
WRC said the university’s Homecoming Kick-Off Alumni & Friends Welcome Reception and the Greek Step Show were being held Friday night.
‘Something’s going on’
The Root, in its report about the pair of shootings, quoted a TikTok user as remarking, “First Howard, now Lincoln, something’s going on.”
The outlet added, “Among the jokes and quippy TikToks is something darker … Black Americans are feeling unsafe.”
The Root said another TikTok user recalled shootings last year at HBCUs and wondered if this represents a trend. Another user said, “This is becoming an every-year occurrence at a lot of schools, smh,” according to the outlet.
Last fall, two shootings occurred at two HBCUs — also during their homecoming weekends.
A dozen people were shot — one of them fatally — at Tuskegee University in Alabama last November. The deceased individual, an 18-year-old, reportedly died at the scene. One man reportedly was charged with possession of a machine gun in connection with the shooting. A month prior, five people were shot — one fatally — in a crowded area near a campus concert at Albany State University in Georgia.
Following the 2024 HBCU shootings, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter penned an op-ed stating that there is a “growing and disturbing trend of gun violence that is threatening to change the nature of Black colleges’ most sacred institution — homecoming.”
The AJC reporter, Ernie Suggs, added:
In 2022, four people, including three students, were wounded near Clark Atlanta University after a drive-by shooting during a homecoming celebration.
In 2023, five people, including four students, were shot at Morgan State University. It was the third consecutive year that homecoming festivities at the Baltimore school were marred by gunfire.
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