I just lost a lot of respect for Bill Maher

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Bill Maher makes shocking recommendation in Maine Senate race after Graham Platner’s ‘scary behavior’

By Ryan King, NY Post

Published June 14, 2026

Comedian Bill Maher threw his weight behind Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner, despite his “scary behavior,” arguing that flipping the Senate for Dems is more important than his Nazi tattoo or cheating scandal.

HBO’s “Real Time” host said that Democrats’ retaking the Senate in November would be a critical check on President Trump, and argued that America is rife with “a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people” anyway.

“Let’s get real about Graham Platner,” Maher said during his Friday show.

“The big story is the Democrats can likely take back the Senate in November if they win Maine. But their local candidate, official now up there, is after the primary this week, let’s just say, a guy who has a backstory that screams, ‘Don’t ask.’”

Maine’s Senate seat, held by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), is widely seen as one of the Democrats’ top pickup opportunities of 2026. They need to flip four seats to win back the upper chamber.

“I would still urge the folks in Maine to vote for him, for two reasons,” Maher explained after rattling through Platner’s string of scandals. “One, we need to restore balance in our government, and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that.”

“And two, get used to it. America is a country filled with a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people. And as long as we live in a representative democracy, we are always electing our reflection in the mirror. I wish the tattoo was the scariest thing about Platner. It’s not. That would be his solution to a home invasion, which is to rape the home invader.”

That’s a reference to a story the oyster farmer’s former ex, Lyndsey Fifield, told The New York Times. “He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them,” though not “a sexual way, not in a gay way,” she recounted.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks to supporters after winning the Democratic nomination.

Platner has pushed back against her claims that he was rough with her, but acknowledged being a bad boyfriend.

He had easily clinched the Democrats’ Senate nod last Tuesday.

Currently, he has a 6.4 percentage point edge over Collins, according to the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate. That’s down from last week. Notably, Collins massively overperformed the RCP aggregate in her 2020 reelection bid.

“Now, I don’t judge Graham Platner because I’m just learning who he is,” Maher stressed during his segment on the oyster farmer. “Problem is, so is he. What I do know is he served his country in the Marines in war, and you can never discount how big that is.”

“But then there’s the sexting while married, uh, scary behavior. So, say some of his exes, old posts about how he’s a communist and all cops are bastards and black people don’t tip,” he went on. “Then, of course, there’s the Nazi tattoo on his chest.”

“I mean, seriously, this guy’s whole life is the movie ‘The Hangover.’ He doesn’t need a term in the Senate. He needs a gap year in Costa Rica.”

Platner faced a firestorm last year after it was revealed that he had a tattoo on his chest that bore a resemblance to a Totenkopf or “Death’s Head” symbol used by the Nazi Schutzstaffel or SS.

He claims to have gotten the tattoo while drunk in Croatia in 2007 without knowing what it was. Platner has since inked over it.

His campaign released footage of him dancing shirtless with the tattoo at his brother’s wedding, in front of Jewish relatives, and he had several members of his old Marine unit claim that they weren’t aware of the tattoo’s meaning.

But Fifield and another former flame of Platner’s have said he spoke about the Nazi tattoo before it was publicly revealed — suggesting that he knew exactly what it was.