How much are Democrats willing to take to continue their support of Maine U.S.Senate candidate Graham Platner?So far, they’ve accepted that he has a Nazi tattoo.
They’ve accepted that he has posted in online forums in 2013 that rape victims should take accountability and in 2020 called rural Americans "stupid" and "racist." As late as 2019, he was posting that U.S.Army Pfc.
Ted Daniels, who had been shot in Afghanistan, didn’t deserve to live and openly rooted for the Taliban.About those comments he said, "I’m proud that I got through a dark period in my life, and I’m proud of the life that I live now." When did that dark period end, exactly?In a story from a few days ago, Platner’s wife told campaign staff that he had been sending sexually explicit messages to several women as recently as last year and using the questionable messaging app Kik.
Is that part of the dark period too?Now a New York Times story exposes more about Platner’s personality and none of it is good.The story itself is a very soft touch, careful not to say anything too terrible about the likely Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senate from Maine.But the fact that the liberal outlet decided to run the story at all is evidence that there is something there.DEMOCRATS 'SELLING THEIR SOUL' TO EMBRACE PLATNER ARE IN FOR RUDE AWAKENING WITH MAINE VOTERS: GOP LAWMAKERGraham Platner, Democratic Senate candidate for Maine, and Sen.
Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, attend a Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, Maine, on May 25, 2026.(Sophie Park/Bloomberg/Getty Images)The Times interviewed several women, including Lyndsey Fifield, who dated Platner from 2013 to 2015.
Fifield is specifically described as "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns" as if that context means her claims can be dismissed.They shouldn’t be.Fifield says that Platner knew his tattoo had Nazi origins and, in fact, his unit chose that tattoo specifically fo...