Billionaire Democratic donor George Soros had a very good night on Tuesday when his backed candidate, Graham Platner, waltzed to an easy Democratic primary victory in Maine.
George Soros and his son Alexander didn’t just help build the party infrastructure that elected the controversial Platner on Tuesday night. They wrote him the checks personally.
Federal Election Commission records show that both George Soros and his son Alexander each gave the $7,000 maximum personal contribution directly to Platner’s Maine Senate campaign. The radical leftist with a controversial past crushed establishment Democrat Gov. Janet Mills 72% to 22% in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, setting up one of the most consequential Senate matchups of the 2026 midterms.
It’s a race the Soros family has invested in personally for a long time.
Platner’s campaign manager is Ben Chin, a career left-wing activist who spent his entire professional life at the Maine People’s Alliance, a group funded by Soros.
The financial machine Soros has spent three decades constructing is ready to amplify the Platner general election campaign against Republican Sen. Susan Collins. The Senate Majority PAC, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Super PAC, has received tens of millions from Soros over the years and will target millions to the race on Platner’s behalf in November.
Of course, his grip extends far beyond the U.S. Senate. Soros has spent $40 million over the past decade paying for the elections of 75 radical leftist prosecutors, who now represent one-fifth of all Americans and hold office in half of the top 50 most populated U.S. cities.
His Texas Majority PAC launched a “Blue Texas” initiative last year aimed at flipping congressional seats across the Lone Star State in 2026.
“Soros is using that campaign money and the hundreds of millions more for supporting organizations to quietly transform the criminal justice system for the worse, promoting dangerous policies and anti-police narratives to advance his radical agenda,” Jason Johnson, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, told The Washington Examiner.
“The reality is the Left has dozens of billionaires like him, and it seems that almost all of them are rolling out the red carpet and the checkbook for Democratic Senate candidates this cycle,” a Capital Research Center analyst said.
Platner’s victory comes despite a string of controversies: old social media posts described as racist, homophobic, and misogynistic; a tattoo of a Nazi symbol that he covered up; and reports of sexually explicit text messages sent to multiple women while married. He blamed “journalistic malpractice” while acknowledging “Amy and I went through something hard — because of me.”
Maine voters didn’t care, or didn’t care enough. Platner won by 50 points.
For Soros, his funding machine delivered again. And this fall, all of it turns on Susan Collins.