Almost exactly one year ago, Graham Platner, who has no political experience, was cherry-picked by out-of-state political activists.
According to a person familiar with the campaign, Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan, who have made a name for themselves by recruiting populist candidates across the country, traveled to Maine and rented a house near Platner’s home in Sullivan to convince him to run for the US Senate. Throughout the process, Moraff became Platner’s “right-hand man”, the person described, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of backlash.
But homing in on Platner as a newcomer to oust long-serving Republican Susan Collins came at
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