(The Center Square) – Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in Pennsylvania in recent days have criticized Maine Democrat Graham Platner ahead of the primary election, which will determine who the candidates will be in a closely watched U.S. Senate race.
“I think it's so distressing, all of the stories that are coming out, and they're more and more, it seems, by the hour,” U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-4th District, said in an interview with CNN on Friday. “I'm not a voter in Maine, but he has disqualified himself in my eyes. He is not qualified to be a representative, a senator.”
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