The slow-motion car crash that is scandal-ridden Maine Democrat Graham Platner and his campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins took another strange turn Tuesday, this time thanks to the stellar work of our sister site, Townhall.
Kyle Olson over at Townhall has obtained undercover video footage of a staffer for Dan Osborn, a Nebraska "independent" running to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts in this year's midterm elections, boasting about Osborn being the one to have recruited Platner. The staffer, "Colleen," tells another woman that the stench of Graham Platner can be directly traced to Dan Osborn.
🚨Undercover video obtained exclusively by Townhall Media reveals that “independent” candidate Dan Osborn hoping to unseat incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts in Nebraska "recruited Graham Platner" to run for Senate in Maine.
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 7, 2026
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Here's a bit of that exchange:
“So he has also recruited other candidates around the country to run that are doing similar things,” the video shows Colleen saying, referring to “a few independents” and “a few Democrats.”
“This is not really out there publicly, but he recruited Graham Platner,” Colleen said in the video obtained by Townhall Media. It is not known when the video was created.
When asked if Osborn and Platner “know each other,” Colleen responded, “Yeah.”
“Dan, after the last election, he started a program to recruit working class candidates to run,” Colleen said, directing the individual to the website for Working Class Heroes Fund.
“Dan is an independent who ran for US Senate against an incumbent Republican Senator,” the website says on the “About Us” page, identifying him as the leader.
And here's the video itself:
RedState readers might remember Dan Osborn from his unsuccessful 2024 campaign, again as an "independent," to unseat Nebraska's other incumbent, Republican Sen. Deb Fischer. As we reported back then, Osborn was receiving gobs of money from Democrat donors, despite proclaiming himself an independent, blue-collar kind of guy.
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If what "Colleen" from the video says is true, it makes the Democrat Party's quest to find "working class guys" to represent them all that more hilarious. It's the blind leading the blind, and proof positive that the left wouldn't know a true man's man if he hit them over the head with an anvil. They're doing their own version of the Steve Buscemi meme – "how do you do, fellow manly men?" And the best part is they don't know how foolish they look to the rest of us.
It's uncertain at whose feet history will ultimately place the ashes of Platner's candidacy – and, hey, he may decide being an accused sexual predator and all-around heathen is just what Democrats need right now and stay in the race – but many Mainers and, indeed, Americans, have a vested interested in knowing why Dems decided this deviant was worth all the effort.
You can't help but wonder what will be uncovered next.
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