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The Issue: Graham Platner wins Maine’s Democratic Senate primary despite his long list of scandals.The Democrats are doing anything possible to wrest the Senate from the Republicans, with a great example being their support for Graham Platner, who won the Maine Democratic primary (“He’s Maine event,” June 11).In the past, he appeared to endorse political violence, criticized officers of the law and dismissed rape charges in the military.If that isn’t enough, he had a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest.
He had totally lame excuses for all these radical stances.The Democrats’ concern for the welfare of Maine’s citizens seems secondary to hurting President Trump in any way possible.The Democrats were once the party of the people.Marty OrensteinNew Hyde ParkHow sad that the Democratic Party has decided to support Platner in the US Senate race.When asked by reporters about the numerous allegations against him, Graham pleads ignorance.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he knows nothing about Platner, but, as your editorial (“Hakeem Pleads Ignorance,” June 8) put it, “As long as it helps Democrats take over Congress, he’ll keep his eyes wide shut.”Hakeem and the rest of the Capitol Hill Democrats are willing to put up with anything or anybody to win in November.Sal GiarrataniBoston, Mass.It is inconceivable to me why there is such an outcry about Platner winning the primary.He has all the qualifications for being a perfect Democratic senator: low moral character, a liar, an antisemite and a man with questionably perverse sexual preferences.Seamus LangBelle HarborAs more and more stories about Platner surface, it is obvious that he is unfit to be in the US Senate.
The laundry list of things he’s said and done over the years would have ended his campaign in years past.Yet the character of individual candidates is now subordinate to a Marxist anti-American ideology and that is a real threat to the future of the country.Robert DiNardoFarmi...