{"id":134667,"date":"2026-06-05T12:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/how-much-baggage-will-democrats-accept-from-maines-graham-platner-134667"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:39:47","slug":"how-much-baggage-will-democrats-accept-from-maines-graham-platner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/how-much-baggage-will-democrats-accept-from-maines-graham-platner-134667","title":{"rendered":"How much baggage will Democrats accept from Maine’s Graham Platner?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How much are Democrats willing to take to continue their support of Maine<\/a> U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner?<\/p>\n

So far, they\u2019ve accepted that he has a Nazi tattoo. They\u2019ve accepted that he has posted in online forums in 2013 that rape victims should take accountability and in 2020 called rural Americans “stupid” and “racist.” As late as 2019, he was posting that U.S. Army Pfc. Ted Daniels,<\/a> who had been shot in Afghanistan, didn\u2019t deserve to live and openly rooted for the Taliban. About those comments he said, “I\u2019m proud that I got through a dark period in my life, and I\u2019m proud of the life that I live now.” When did that dark period end, exactly?<\/p>\n

In a story from a few days ago, Platner\u2019s wife told campaign staff<\/a> that he had been sending sexually explicit messages to several women as recently as last year and using the questionable messaging app Kik. Is that part of the dark period too?<\/p>\n

Now a New York Times story exposes more about Platner\u2019s personality and none of it is good. The story itself is a very soft touch, careful not to say anything too terrible about the likely Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Maine. But the fact that the liberal outlet decided to run the story at all is evidence that there is something there.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATS ‘SELLING THEIR SOUL’ TO EMBRACE PLATNER ARE IN FOR RUDE AWAKENING WITH MAINE VOTERS: GOP LAWMAKER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Times interviewed several women, including Lyndsey Fifield, who dated Platner from 2013 to 2015. Fifield is specifically described as “a Virginia<\/a> conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns” as if that context means her claims can be dismissed. They shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

Fifield says that Platner knew his tattoo had Nazi origins<\/a> and, in fact, his unit chose that tattoo specifically for that reason. “Ms. Fifield said he told her that he and other members of his unit selected the tattoo because \u2018they were like a death unit, they were killers,\u2019 and saw a parallel between their unit and the Nazi Schutzstaffel, or S.S., unit, that used the skull-and-crossbones image. \u2018They literally, deliberately, selected it because it was relevant to their military unit,\u2019 she said.”<\/p>\n

This is in direct contrast to the story Platner tried to tell since October 2021, the same month he finally got it removed, that he just got a cool-looking tattoo while on leave. Fifield told friends about the Nazi tattoo in August. How could she have known about it before he did? The reality is he knew it was a Nazi tattoo all along and Democrats are still standing<\/a> by him.<\/p>\n

GRAHAM PLATNER DENIES DAMNING NEW REPORT ALLEGING ABUSE AS ‘SIMPLY NOT TRUE’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Fifield also alleges that Platner was often rough with her<\/a>. She\u2019s careful not to say that he hit her, “But she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders \u2014 sometimes hard enough to leave marks \u2014 and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car. During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn\u2019t get out, telling her to remain there until she was \u2018calm.\u2019 Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning.”<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> calls this “unsettling behavior” but in most other contexts it would rightly identify this as abuse.<\/p>\n

Answering for the accusations, “Mr. Platner said he had \u2018too often self medicated with alcohol, and was a far from perfect boyfriend\u2019 during what he described as a \u2018very dark period of my life.\u2019”<\/p>\n

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Maybe it would be easier for Platner to point to a time in his life that hasn\u2019t been a “dark” period.<\/p>\n

The day before the Times story hit, Platner met with Democratic senators and assured them there were no other negative stories to be told about him. The Wall Street Journal reported, “Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a>, who also attended the meeting, followed up and said there is a big difference between marital issues and allegations of sexual assault, the people said. Platner agreed and denied any credible allegations of assault were forthcoming.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s sad that a Nazi tattoo and all the rest haven\u2019t been enough for Warren to pull support, but interesting that she would make such a specific query about sexual assault. Platner\u2019s answer about “credible” allegations also makes it seem as if he knows more stories are possibly in the works.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only early June and so many damning allegations and details<\/a> about Platner have already surfaced. The primary hasn\u2019t even happened yet. How much more will Democrats accept in the service of trying to defeat the intensely moderate Republican Susan Collins? Can they be confident the New York Times story is the last of it after they were already assured there would be no more? Or is it that once they\u2019ve decided they can accept a candidate with a Nazi tattoo who had minimized rape victims and mocked military members in combat there\u2019s nothing they can\u2019t accept?<\/p>\n

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