Senate Dem candidate who wrote he 'became a communist' now says he was joking

Maine Democrat Graham Platner now says he was "joking" in years-old Reddit posts where he identified himself as a "communist."Platner, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to unseat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine., in 2026, published the now-deleted Reddit posts between 2020 and 2021. In one of the posts, he wrote, "I got older and became a communist," but he now claims it was merely "internet s---posting.""I believe in Medicare-for-all. I believe in expanding the rights of workers to organize. I believe in taxing the ultra-rich. I believe in a fairer economic system," he told NBC News on Sun