Stewart Gushes Over Platner, Compares Him To ‘Mr. Smith Goes To Washington’

Stewart Gushes Over Platner, Compares Him To 'Mr. Smith Goes To Washington' Comedy Central’s host of The Weekly Show podcast and card-carrying member of the Graham Platner Fan Club, Jon Stewart, welcomed the far-left Maine Senate candidate to Wednesday’s go gush over him by comparing him to Jimmy Stewart’s character in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and lament all the focus on his Nazi tattoos. Stewart was in awe at Platner’s rise, “The entire setup is somewhat Disney-esque. Well, first of all, there's, kind of, always the fable of a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington , a kind of, you know, an honest man who has real ideals facing off against a corrupt system that is fueled by money and toxicity and all these—so there is an archetype for this.” Jon Stewart gushes over Graham Platner, "The entire set up is somewhat Disney-esque. Well, first of all, there's, kind of, always the fable of a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a kind of, you know, an honest man who has real ideals facing off against a corrupt system that is fueled... pic.twitter.com/UTU692vltF — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) April 30, 2026 He then wondered, “Why did the, sort of, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington thing to catch such fire? What do you think you tapped into? What frustrations were it that you were able to articulate so well early on that people just caught on to? 'Cause it wasn't, you weren't, if I may, like, you weren't mimicking any other politician to my mind. I mean, there's hints of Sanders in there, but like, you were definitely a bit iconoclastic when it came to what you were putting out there. And it didn't seem focus-grouped and considered or any of the other artifices that occur with a lot of politicians. So, what...