Deleted posts urging violence haunt Democratic Senate hopeful in Maine race

Old online posts that appear to promote violence to achieve political change have triggered new scrutiny of a rising star on the progressive left who's running for the Senate in Maine.Graham Platner, a U.S. Marine and Army veteran and oyster farmer who is gaining momentum in the race to take on longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, said on the social media platform Reddit in 2018 that "all" police are bastards and called himself a "communist."In a separate post, he argued that if people "expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of hi