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Graham Platner will 'get off the ballot soon,' Democratic lawmaker predicts
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., predicted on Tuesday that Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner will be "off the ballot soon" even if he wins the primary election. Gottheimer, who has criticized Platner for his scandals in the past, called support for far-left candidates like him a "major concern" for the Democratic Party and encouraged people not to support him during the primaries. While he stopped short of supporting Platner's presumptive Republican opponent, Sen. Susan Collins,...
DAVID MARCUS: Establishment Dems turn on Graham Platner, but it's way too late
The world learned this week that Graham Platner, the Maine Democrat all but set to win his party's Senate primary next month, has been sexting up to 12 women in the past few years while married. For Platner, this just added to his Cadillac Mountain of scandals. You are likely familiar with the fact that the so-called oyster farmer has a Nazi tattoo that he covered up only after lying about knowing its meaning.
Despite inflammatory comments, Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
The intense media scrutiny and Republican attacks facing Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine over his controversial and inflammatory past online comments and his now-removed but well-publicized tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi symbol don't appear to be slowing him down.A new public opinion poll shows Platner holding an upper single-digit lead over longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in a race that is among a handful that will likely decide if the GOP...
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
Platner controversies fuel speculation about little-known Maine ballot replacement provision
As controversy surrounding Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner continues to mount, attention is turning to a little-known provision of Maine law that could allow Democrats to replace him on the general election ballot after the primary. The question has taken on new significance because Maine election law provides a mechanism for replacing a nominee who withdraws after winning a primary. Under Maine law, a candidate who wins the June 9 primary and subsequently withdraws by 5 p.m. on...
Top House Democrat says there's 'no way' Platner didn't know tattoo's Nazi origins
A senior House Democrat is joining the growing chorus of critics questioning Senate candidate Graham Platner’s claim that he was unaware of his tattoo’s Nazi origins. "There's no way he didn't know what the tattoo was," Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., said Friday in remarks reported by Punchbowl News. ""He's not willing to do that," Schneider, the chairman of House Democrats' largest caucus, lamented.
Graham Platner's wife campaign video statement responding to infidelity allegations widely panned by critics
Graham Platner's wife Amy Gertner came out to defend her husband's Senate campaign Saturday, but X reactions to the five-minute video are rebuking it as damage control that did not dispute recent allegations against the Maine Democrat."So it makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there's a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip, instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on — like healthcare and education and...
Top House Democrat says there's 'no way' Platner didn't know tattoo's Nazi origins
A senior House Democrat is joining the growing chorus of critics questioning Senate candidate Graham Platner’s claim that he was unaware of his tattoo’s Nazi origins. "There's no way he didn't know what the tattoo was," Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., said Friday in remarks reported by Punchbowl News. ""He's not willing to do that," Schneider, the chairman of House Democrats' largest caucus, lamented.
Graham Platner's wife campaign video statement responding to infidelity allegations widely panned by critics
Graham Platner's wife Amy Gertner came out to defend her husband's Senate campaign Saturday, but X reactions to the five-minute video are rebuking it as damage control that did not dispute recent allegations against the Maine Democrat."So it makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there's a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip, instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on — like healthcare and education and...
Platner controversies fuel speculation about little-known Maine ballot replacement provision
As controversy surrounding Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner continues to mount, attention is turning to a little-known provision of Maine law that could allow Democrats to replace him on the general election ballot after the primary. The question has taken on new significance because Maine election law provides a mechanism for replacing a nominee who withdraws after winning a primary. Under Maine law, a candidate who wins the June 9 primary and subsequently withdraws by 5 p.m. on...