Graham Platner
Progressive
Democrat
N/A
Maine
Current Position: Sullivan Harbor Master
Running For: Senator
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- Against cuts to Medicare and Medicaid
- For lifting the payroll tax cap to protect Social Security
- For a billionaire minimum tax establishing a baseline tax rate the super-rich cannot go under
Business & Labor
- For the PRO Act to protect the right to organize and provide penalties for illegal union-busting
- For raising the federal minimum wage and indexing it to inflation
- For banning hedge funds from buying homes
Health Care
- For Medicare for All and against the for-profit health insurance system
- For empowering government to negotiate prescription drug prices and ending subsidies to drug companies that gouge Americans
Education
- Against federal support for private school vouchers
Civil Rights
- For federal LGBTQ anti-discrimination legislation
- For a strong federal guarantee of the right to choose abortion
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For a constitutional amendment to ban billionaires buying elections
- For term limits - two terms in the Senate, six terms in the House
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For a path to citizenship and ending the mass deportation machine; supports strong border security
- Against pointless wars; will never vote to send Americans into a pointless war
- Against ending US support for Gaza; describes it as genocide and wants to use every means to end it
- For abolishing ICE and prosecuting ICE agents accused of crimes
- Against the 2026 Iran war; calls it a 'horrific war of choice'
- For providing military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war
Public Safety
- For cannabis legalization and clemency for those caught up in the war on drugs
- For red flag laws provided they don't impede legal gun owners' access to firearms; supports universal background checks
- Against a ban on semi-automatic assault weapons; supports a more holistic approach than banning gun types