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Graham Platner vows 'investigation time' for Trump administration if Democrats regain control of US Senate
“We need to shut down the White House for the next two years," Platner said on Wednesday.

SABATTUS, Maine — Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is promising a dramatic increase in oversight of the Trump administration should he help his party flip enough Republican seats for Democrats to regain a majority in the U.S. Senate.

Platner reiterated the goal—made previously at a Democratic Party forum two weeks ago—at his campaign’s 63rd town hall Wednesday night, when about 150 people filled the American Legion Post in the Androscoggin County town of Sabattus.

“If we get the majority, it is Senate committee investigation time," Platner said. "We need to shut down the White House for the next two years. Not only do we have so much crime and corruption to actually investigate, but it’s also a tool. If we haul everybody in the White House under subpoena in front of Senate committees over and over and over again, they won’t have time to be in the White House breaking more things. I also think not one Democratic Senator should vote to confirm a single nominee that come out of the Trump administration moving forward.”

“We got sold out by a political system that does not have our interests at heart—a political system that could not be a better example of than Susan Collins. Susan Collins is the epitome of the self-interested establishment politician who shows up for her donors and always leaves her constituents hanging," Platner said at the town hall. "Things have gotten worse down here in the 30 years that she's been in office. She brings in a little bit of money to the state to justify the fact that a lot more is getting sucked out of us by a system that was built to make sure that we all work harder and longer and for less. It needs to change.”