More shoes to drop for Graham Platner?
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maine, faces scrutiny over his past actions and statements. His campaign is marred by revelations of sexually explicit texts and a controversial tattoo, which he has previously misrepresented. Despite these issues, he remains a contender against incumbent Senator Susan Collins, who has faced her own challenges this election cycle.
- ▪Graham Platner is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maine.
- ▪He has been criticized for sending sexually explicit texts to multiple women.
- ▪Platner has a controversial tattoo associated with a Nazi SS unit, which he has lied about in the past.
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Maine Democrats’ deeply-troubled U.S. Senate nominee-in-waiting, Graham Platner, is still considered the favorite in his bid to unseat moderate incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Collins has defied the odds before, as we’ve noted previously, winning comfortably in 2020 even after every single public poll projected she’d lose. But this cycle is proving to be a challenging one for her, and for Republicans generally, so we’ll see how things unfold. Platner’s latest attack has been that Collins voted to send him to war in Iraq, which elides the reality that Platner volunteered to go to Iraq well after Collins had already cast a vote in favor of that conflict (alongside two subsequent Democratic presidential nominees).
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