Democrats 'selling their soul' to embrace Platner are in for rude awakening with Maine voters: GOP lawmaker

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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." SUSAN COLLINS SHRUGS OFF ATTACKS BY DEMOCRATS AND TRUMP, SAYS MAINE VOTERS ‘DON’T VOTE PARTY LINE’ "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…