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Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior
Graham Platner, a combat veteran, has spoken openly about his past struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and drinking, and has said his behavior years ago does not reflect who he is today.
Maine’s Graham Platner meets with Democratic senators amid controversy
Graham Platner visited Capitol Hill on Tuesday to meet with Democrats amid fresh controversy. So far, no senator has reneged on their support for him after reports emerged over the weekend that Platner’s wife privately alerted a campaign official that he sent sexually explicit text messages to other women early in their marriage. A source with knowledge of the meetings said they had been “on the books for a while” and were unrelated to the recent stories.
The Hypocrisy of the Democrats Who Defend Graham Platner
Title: The Hypocrisy of the Democrats Who Defend Graham Platner For decades, Nazism and the anti-Semitism underlying it have marked zero on the Kelvin scale of villainy—the metric against which all other forms of evil are compared. This is so well understood that we now have cultural phenomena such as Godwin’s Law, the theory that online debates inevitably lead to Nazi comparisons, and the “everything I don’t like is Hitler” meme. But their existence proves the point: If one wishes to say that something is irredeemably bad, Nazis are the benchmark, the absolute.Yet recently this understanding seems to have grown less universal. Nazi symbolism and more modern versions of the ancient conspiracy theories behind this intolerable ideology have found a degree of toleration within American political movements desperate for shortsighted victories. The underlying hatred that, among other things, motivated the killing of more than a third of all the Jews on the planet eight decades ago is viewed no longer as unacceptable, but rather somewhere on a scale of “problematic” issues that can be either explained away or ignored.The most recent case is that of Graham Platner, the 41-year-old Democrat who is hoping to unseat Senator Susan Collins in Maine. Platner has a unique personal
Graham Platner ripped as 'disturbed' by former campaign director just hours before Tuesday's primary
Graham Platner shouldn't be elected to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate, a former high-level staffer for the embattled Democratic candidate told voters just hours before polls opened in the state's Tuesday primary. Genevieve McDonald, once a Maine state representative who worked briefly as Platner's campaign director last year, warned in an op/ed in The Washington Post on Monday evening: "Graham Platner is not someone who would be good for Maine or for the country. she overlooked his...
Graham Platner ripped as 'disturbed' by former campaign director just hours before Tuesday's primary
Graham Platner shouldn't be elected to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate, a former high-level staffer for the embattled Democratic candidate told voters just hours before polls opened in the state's Tuesday primary. Genevieve McDonald, once a Maine state representative who worked briefly as Platner's campaign director last year, warned in an op/ed in The Washington Post on Monday evening: "Graham Platner is not someone who would be good for Maine or for the country. she overlooked his...
Maine Has a Graham Platner Problem
We don't know what Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, wrote in his sexually explicit texts with women other than his wife—six, according to his campaign; a dozen, according to an ex-aide—but do we need to? The glaring question that the texts pose to voters about the presumptive Democratic nominee at this point in a pivotal midterm race is: Are we really going to do this again?In 2016, voters were asked to choose between a populist candidate dogged by questions...
Graham Platner denies damning new report alleging abuse as 'simply not true'
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner denied the latest allegations against him on Thursday in his first national media interview since the scandal broke. Prior to the interview, Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriends spoke out in a damning New York Times report, which chronicled new allegations of rape fantasies, heavy drinking and violent episodes. Among them included an alleged public encounter where Platner purportedly pulled an ex-girlfriend out of a taxi by her wrist during an...
The growing list of controversies threatening Democrat Graham Platner's Maine Senate bid
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has emerged as one of the party's fastest-rising political figures, drawing national attention for his populist message and outsider image. But as his profile has grown, so has scrutiny of his past conduct, with controversies ranging from sexually explicit messages and offensive social media posts to a Nazi-linked tattoo and campaign staff upheaval. PLATNER CONTROVERSIES FUEL
The growing list of controversies threatening Democrat Graham Platner's Maine Senate bid
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has emerged as one of the party's fastest-rising political figures, drawing national attention for his populist message and outsider image. But as his profile has grown, so has scrutiny of his past conduct, with controversies ranging from sexually explicit messages and offensive social media posts to a Nazi-linked tattoo and campaign staff upheaval. PLATNER CONTROVERSIES FUEL
Graham Platner denies ex-girlfriend’s allegations of ‘unsettling’ behavior and new Nazi ‘Totenkopf’ tattoo claim
Graham Platner denies ex-girlfriend’s allegations of ‘unsettling’ behavior and new Nazi ‘Totenkopf’ tattoo claim Platner has labeled the accusations ‘politically motivated’ - Bookmark U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner has denied claims of “reckless” and “unsettling” behavior toward an ex-girlfriend who alleged he repeatedly grabbed her hard enough to leave marks, pulled her from a cab by the wrist, and, in one incident, twisted her arm behind her back and held her in a room more than a...