'The Best Fundraising Text I've Ever Seen': Graham Platner's 'Grassroots' Campaign Is Funneling Money to Influencers To Fawn Over Him
Graham Platner's Senate campaign in Maine is utilizing a consulting firm to engage influencers for fundraising efforts. The firm, Good Influence, has received significant payments from Platner to promote his campaign on social media. Critics note that this approach contradicts Platner's self-proclaimed grassroots image.
- ▪Graham Platner's campaign has paid over $36,000 to the consulting firm Good Influence for digital organizing.
- ▪Influencer Qasim Rashid praised Platner's fundraising text, which criticized billionaires and accused Israel of genocide.
- ▪Platner's campaign claims to be grassroots, yet relies on paid influencers to promote his message.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 27 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean right. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Platner's Funneling Money to Influencers To Fawn Over Him — RealClear Investigations
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Elections 'The Best Fundraising Text I've Ever Seen': Graham Platner's 'Grassroots' Campaign Is Funneling Money to Influencers To Fawn Over Him One of the influencers, Qasim Rashid, said his 'jaw dropped' when he received a fundraising solicitation from Platner and is soliciting donations for the Maine Democrat's campaign Graham Platner and Qasim Rashid (qasim.rashind/TikTok) Collin Anderson May 22, 2026 image/svg+xml .st0{fill:none;stroke:#384f61;stroke-width:2;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;} .st1{fill:none;stroke:#384f61;stroke-width:2;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;} Left-wing Democrat Graham Platner's "grassroots" campaign for Senate in Maine has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a left-wing consulting firm that pays a "network of…
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