Washington Examiner senior columnist Guy Benson argued Graham Platner became the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine to increase male support in the party.

“I think that there is a reason why Maine Democrats decided to nominate Graham Platner, because they were like, ‘We need to connect better with men. We need someone who’s manly,’” Benson said Thursday on Fox News’s Gutfeld!.

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