Maine, Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner
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Bernie Sanders downplays Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo: ‘There might be one or two more important issues’
After Graham Platner, the progressive Senate hopeful running in Maine’s Democratic primary, revealed this week that he had had a Nazi-inspired tattoo on his chest for nearly two decades, several of his allies on the left cut him loose.
Dem Senate candidate Graham Platner covered a Nazi-linked tattoo after backlash over old posts and apologized but refused to quit as rivals demand he drop out.
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is refusing to drop his adamant support for Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner despite
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Sanders defends embattled Platner amid Nazi tattoo backlash
Platner has attracted attention as an outsider candidate in the Maine Democratic primary and has carved out a lead over Gov. Janet Mills, D-Me.
Planter, a US veteran and mercenary, has continued to receive support from “progressive” Democrats even after it was revealed he had a Totenkopf, the favored symbol of Hitler’s SS, on his chest for nearly two decades.