A top Jewish Democrat and member of the House Intelligence Committee called for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to exit the race, adding that if the scandal-plagued oyster farmer were running in New Jersey, he would be "buried under the Meadowlands."Rep.Josh Gottheimer, the subject of a recent profile that compared him to Pennsylvania Gov.
Josh Shapiro and said he wants to be a "bulwark" against Democrats’ newfound leftist impulses, suggested there is no room for Platner on the party’s midterm ticket.When asked by CNN if his aversion to Platner should be read as a recommendation that Democrats instead vote for moderate Republican Sen.Susan Collins, Gottheimer offered another off-ramp."No, what I would suggest is that Graham Platner get off if he wins today, which I assume he will because there's no one actively campaigning against him, that he get off the ballot and let another Democrat step in," Gottheimer said.SEE IT: MAINE VOTERS SOUND OFF ON PLATNER'S DIVISIVE CAMPAIGN AS CRUCIAL PRIMARY NEARS: 'HE'S A DISGRACE'Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, left; Rep.
Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., right.(Laura Brett/Getty Images; Bill Clark/Getty Images)Platner is the frontrunner in Tuesday’s primary, as Gov.
Janet Mills suspended her campaign and other candidates, including Bangor’s David Costello, have failed to gain traction."If this were Jersey and you had a candidate who abused women, obviously has a Nazi tattoo that — now it's clear that he knew was a Nazi tattoo: not to mention many of his other lies and his comments and extremist comments; pro Hamas — a terrorist organization — other things of that nature.He should get off the ballot."Gottheimer, who represents Bergen County’s deep-blue New York City suburbs and the rural ruby-red Skylands of the state’s northwest, said that if Platner tried to run in the Garden State, "we’d throw him off the ballot or bury him under the Meadowlands."PLATNER CONTROVERSIES FUEL SPECULATION ABOUT LITTLE-KN...