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Graham Platner US Inactive

GRAHAM FOR MAINE

ad creative

Bernie Sanders endorsed our campaign

I’m not taking money from AIPAC or corporations, so any amount you can afford to give goes a long way.

Ad copy

It’s Graham Platner – the Marine Corps veteran, oyster farmer, and Democrat running against Susan Collins. After Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed our campaign, we held an absolutely electric rally together here in Portland, ME. And I could not feel more energized. Here’s what I told the crowd of over six thousand: The people of Maine are done with fascism and oligarchy. We are done with a broken health care industry that prioritizes profit over people. We are done funding genocide. We are done with corporations and billionaires buying our elections. And we are done with corrupt politicians like Susan Collins who make it all happen. Susan Collins is the most vulnerable Republican senator in the entire country. Maine is ready to send her packing into retirement – and I am ready to go to Washington and fight for working class people. But I need your help. Susan Collins has taken millions from corporations and special interests like AIPAC. We can stand up to the oligarchy and fight back against the fascists who have taken over our government. But I need folks like you to chip in now if we’re going to defeat Susan Collins and take back the Senate for Democrats next November. Please, will you join Bernie Sanders in supporting our campaign and make a monthly donation right now to our campaign to help me defeat Susan Collins, flip Maine blue, and take back the Senate for Democrats?

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Performance proxies

Overall score57.0/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.65.7 · 94.0 · 11.3 · 57.1
Spend rangeUSD 20,000–24,999
Impressions500,000 – 599,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 40.91
Est. audience size
Days live42 (2025-09-02 → 2025-10-14)
Created2025-09-02
Creative variants1 body · 1 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateME — Graham Platner
Surfaced by“senate:Graham Platner”

🧠 AI analysis

Issuecandidate character bio
Framingpositive candidate
Message typefundraising
Emotional appealurgency
Production tierdiy amateur
Who picturedcandidate, veterans military
Symbolsnone
Call to actiondonate
Standout elementRaw, unpolished selfie-style video frame with a play button reinforcing authenticity and grassroots energy
TacticLeverages Bernie Sanders' endorsement as the lead credibility hook while pairing the candidate's Marine veteran and working-man identity with populist anti-oligarchy rhetoric to drive small-dollar donations via ActBlue.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Maine16.6%
California10.1%
Massachusetts9.3%
New York8.0%
Washington3.4%
Pennsylvania3.4%
Texas3.1%

Who saw it (delivery)

18-24 · female 1.0%
45-54 · male 7.6%
65+ · unknown 0.5%
65+ · male 13.0%
65+ · female 17.5%
55-64 · unknown 0.3%
55-64 · male 9.3%
55-64 · female 9.5%
45-54 · unknown 0.2%
45-54 · female 6.8%
18-24 · male 3.4%
35-44 · unknown 0.4%
35-44 · male 9.7%
35-44 · female 7.2%
25-34 · unknown 0.3%
25-34 · male 8.5%
25-34 · female 4.7%
18-24 · unknown 0.2%
Unknown · unknown 0.0%

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