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Sanders caught on camera snapping at reporter over Platner’s posts: ‘Get a better job’
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Sen. Bernie Sanders lashed out at a reporter for Fox News Digital when pressed on Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s resurfaced vulgar Reddit posts, telling the reporter to «get a better job.»
«Who do you work for?» Sanders asked when questioned about Platner’s posts. When told Fox News Digital, Sanders replied, «Why don’t you talk to your owner Mr. Murdoch and ask him for a raise so you can get a better job.»
Sanders endorsed Platner in August 2025.
Several other Democratic senators also declined to weigh in on Platner’s resurfaced Reddit posts and what they could mean for his Senate bid. Some said they had not seen the posts, while others declined to comment altogether.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders reacts to questions from a Fox News Digital reporter about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s resurfaced Reddit posts while walking through the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«I haven’t seen it,» Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said. «I’m not following it. Sorry.»
«I’m not going to take any position in that election,» Sen. Angus King, R-Maine, said. «That’s my practice since I’ve been in the Senate.»
«On whose?» Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said when asked to comment on Platner’s posts. «No, I’m not gonna get into that.»
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore, said the viability of Platner’s candidacy should be left to Maine voters to decide.
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Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., blocked a Republican-authored photo ID bill on Thursday night. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
«The people of Maine get to choose who they want to represent them in the U.S. Senate,» Merkley said. «And so I encourage you to interview the people in Maine, because that’s what a democracy is all about.»
«I have not seen his post, so I’m not going to be able to be in a position to evaluate them.»
Platner has faced increasing scrutiny after since-deleted Reddit posts resurfaced online, ranging from talking about masturbating in portable toilets to mocking a wounded Purple Heart U.S. soldier.
These posts are among the newest discoveries from his past Reddit history, with previously exposed posts revealing him on rape victims to take responsibility and praising Hamas’ tactics.
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Senatorial candidate Graham Platner speaks at a town hall at the Leavitt Theater in Ogunquit, Maine, on Oct. 22, 2025. (Sophie Park/Getty Images)
«I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a portas—-er… that blue water smell conditioned me,» Platner wrote in one resurfaced post.
Platner has publicly addressed some of the posts in the past, attributing them to a troubling time in his life after being in the military and suffering from PTSD. He served three tours in Iraq for the Marine Corps and one tour in Afghanistan for the U.S. Army.
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The comments were made under the Reddit account «P-Hustle,» which Platner has acknowledged owning. The posts range from 2009 through as recently as 2021. The entire archive of more than 2,000 posts is available on the Maine Monitor database.
«He’s explained his journey and his evolution and his PTSD from the war, and again, I think it’s a judgment that should be rendered by the people of Maine,» said Merkley.
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‘It’s insane’: GOP senator says Supreme Court birthright ruling hands China a citizenship loophole
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FIRST ON FOX: In the midst of a blitz of Republicans shaking their fists at the Supreme Court, one Senate Republican is warning of national security consequences for the court’s bombshell birthright citizenship decision.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., worries that the court’s 6-3 decision leaves America vulnerable to threats, particularly from China. In an interview with Fox News Digital, he explained a multistep path that lawmakers and the administration could take to tackle the issue.
«I want to get this done because I really believe that the future of our country is on the line,» Schmitt said. «We can’t have Chinese generals sending their wives to this country to give birth and going back for 18 years and coming back and being citizens. It’s insane.»
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Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., questions FBI Director Kash Patel during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 16, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)
While some lawmakers want a constitutional amendment and others are pushing legislation, Schmitt has a foot in both camps. He contended that in all, there is «a short-term, medium-term and long-term solution.»
«The short-term is executive action, the medium-term is our legislative action that we could take, and then the long-term solution is the constitutional amendment,» Schmitt said. «I think we should pursue all of those.»
The clearest shot to counter the court’s decision would be through a constitutional amendment, but legislation may be the more realistic route, he said. He’s following the breadcrumb trail left by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to do it, too.
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«Congress could — consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment — amend or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country,» Kavanaugh wrote in the court’s decision. «But Congress has not yet done so.»
Schmitt’s legislation would clarify the language of the 14th Amendment. The court interpreted the words «subject to the jurisdiction thereof» within the text to effectively mean all children born in the U.S. are automatically granted citizenship.
His plan is to modify the language to include «not subject to a foreign power,» which he contended would return the 14th Amendment to its original intent and prevent foreign adversaries from quietly scoring citizenship.
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«That would get back to what the meaning was supposed to be, that the court got wrong, which would give us the opportunity, I think, for potentially the decision to be overturned, because Congress has clarified it,» Schmitt said.
But, like nearly every legislative push in the Senate, the 60-vote filibuster threshold is a barrier.
That means that Schmitt, or any Republican pushing a bill dealing with birthright citizenship, will need Democratic support to pass.
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Schmitt pointed to the late former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill from 1993, the Immigration Stabilization Act, which among other things sought to tweak the 14th Amendment to prevent children of illegal immigrants born in the U.S. from gaining citizenship, as a marker that at one point, Democrats supported the same thing he and Republicans are pushing for.
«It wasn’t that long ago that Harry Reid actually had legislation to deal with this issue,» he said. «And so, you know, are the Democrats going to be a party that learned their lesson from the Biden years where they were open borders and they let 15 to 20 million people here illegally?»
«They don’t believe in sovereignty that we can tell people who can come and who can go,» Schmitt continued. «Is that who they are, or are they gonna make a shift more towards where the American people are at?»
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