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Who Is Graham Platner? Senate Hopeful Has Sexting and Tattoo Scandals

Maine’s Senate hopeful Graham Platner’s candidacy has been embroiled in multiple controversies. One recurring attack that his opponent, Republican incumbent Susan Collins, and her allies have seized on is that Platner got a tattoo in 2007 that resembles a Totenkopf, a “skull and bones” symbol adopted by Nazi troops during World War II. Platner maintains that he was not aware of the inflammatory meaning of the tattoo at the time he got it and later had it covered up. Still, debate raged over whether the tattoo was politically disqualifying, with Democratic Representative Jake Auchincloss of Mas...