ICYMI: Sen. Banks Joins Rob Schmitt Tonight on NewsmaxFriday, July 10, 2026

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) joined Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax to discuss Graham Platner, the state of Democratic Party leadership, and the Democrats’ leftward shift. Click the image above for full discussion. Key Excerpts: Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.): “Platner, what a dirt bag that guy is, and everybody knew it, the Democrats knew it, Republicans knew it, the voters in Maine knew it. It’s unbelievable that the Democrats would nominate him to be their candidate, but then again, you see the Democrats nominating flawed, left-wing, radical, communist candidates all over the country, but Platner would have been easy to beat… That’s becoming the mantra of the Democrat Party all over the country. This is not my grandpa’s Democratic Party.” “It just goes to show that Chuck Schumer doesn’t run the Democratic Party, certainly not the Democrat conference in the United States Senate; Bernie Sanders does. And Bernie Sanders vetted Graham Platner, and Graham Platner passed the Bernie Sanders test, so that just goes to show that the communist, socialist wing led by Bernie Sanders and these radical Democrats own the Democrat party. They anointed Platner; that’s who they wanted. He was their movement, a socialist, communist candidate. And the Democrats nominated him. That’s just the fact of the matter.” ###