The Media Moral Police ARE on Democrat Platner’s case…. HEAVY….
Could this Help Republican Susan Collins Keep her Maine Senate Seat?…
Platner , whose indiscretions don’t touch Donald Trump’s with a ten foot pole IS being held to Higher Standard , as All Democrats are….
Pete Hegseth….
Kash Patel ….
And others GET SUPPORT from Republicans while Democrats ARE COULD self distuck….
The spotlight is on the man who certainly has a rough history…
His fate will be up to him and voters of Maine….
Mr. Platner, 41, a combat veteran, has spoken openly about grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and drinking that he said resulted from his time in the military. As revelations about him have surfaced — including his dismissive remarks online about rape and derogatory comments about women, as well as a tattoo he had that is widely recognized as a Nazi symbol — he has said his past behavior does not reflect who he is today. Mainers, he has urged, should not judge him for “the worst thing I said on the internet on my worst day 14 years ago.”
The critical accounts provided by three of the women interviewed by The Times, who were each in romantic relationships with him for years, give a fuller picture of Mr. Platner’s life. They shed light on an earlier era, when he has acknowledged intense struggles, but also raise questions about his more recent years in Maine, which his campaign has presented as a period of healing and personal redemption.
The disclosures last week that Mr. Platner, now married, was exchanging sexual messages with women as recently as last year have complicated that narrative and unnerved Democrats, who see the Maine seat as key to their efforts to regain control of the Senate….
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“I take responsibility for all of that, and wish I had been better,” he said. “Any characterization beyond that is false, and I believe, politically motivated. I’m not proud of who I was then, but I am proud of the work I’ve done since, and the movement we are building in Maine.”….
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On the campaign trail, Mr. Platner has consistently worked to reassure voters who have been rattled by what they have read about his messy personal history. He has said that he had not lived a “very complicated” life.
“I have a lot of ex-girlfriends,” he told voters at a town hall in late April. “They’re all still my friends.”
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Remember …
For some?
Attention IS ATTENTION Good or Bad…..
Graham Platner is getting that attention for FREE….
And Platner STILL LEADS Susan Collins in the polling….
And seems to have Bernie Sanders support….
image…NBC News
Platner says ‘not once’ has he considered dropping Maine Senate primary bid
Progressive oyster farmer Graham Platner said on Thursday that “not once” has he considered dropping his Maine Senate primary bid after new allegations about his past behavior surfaced earlier that day.
“No, not once,” Platner told MS NOW’s Chris Hayes, when asked in an interview if he had considered dropping out in the past week…..