A decorated U.S. Army combat veteran took to the pages of <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/im-the-soldier-grahamplatner-mocked-2a6c3dbc?mod=opinion_lead_pos5">The Wall Street Journal</a> on Thursday to deliver a thunderous beatdown to Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, exposing the presumptive nominee as a keyboard coward who rooted for the Taliban to kill American soldiers.
Purple Heart recipient Teddy Daniels eviscerated Platner, calling him an &#8220;entitled brat&#8221; and an elitist phony who pretends to be a working-class champion while secretly harboring deep contempt for blue-collar Americans.
The fury erupted after investigative reports unearthed a shocking digital paper trail from Platner’s past. Using the anonymous Reddit handle &#8220;P-Hustle,&#8221; Platner left a trail of <a href="https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/politics/maine-politics/sen-susan-collins-criticizes-challenger-graham-platner-comments-about-her-and-2019-reddit-post-teddy-daniels/97-54f2209c-e5c5-4737-8876-4f7fa7b71a5d#:~:text=Collins%20added%20that%20she%20and,combat%20in%20Afghanistan%20in%202012.">1,800 comments</a> — including a stomach-churning June 2019 post in which he watched a viral helmet-cam video of Daniels getting shot multiple times during a 2012 Taliban ambush in Afghanistan.
Instead of showing respect for a wounded soldier, Platner mocked him.
“This video never gets old. Dumb motherf*cker didn’t deserve to live,” Platner wrote online, mocking the bleeding soldier as a &#8220;mouthbreather&#8221; who only survived due to &#8220;poor marksmanship on the Taliban’s part.&#8221;
“I received a Purple Heart for my injuries, but Mr. Platner cheered for my death from behind a keyboard,” Daniels wrote.
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Daniels used his Journal op-ed to rip the mask off the 41-year-old Democrat. &#8220;The tough-talking Marine veteran struts around in a Carhartt jacket and jeans &#8230; He also plays up his job as an &#8216;oyster farmer,&#8217; but the only client mentioned in his federal financial <a class="ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink" href="https://www.themainewire.com/2025/11/platners-long-delayed-financial-disclosure-raises-new-questions-mills-granted-filing-extension/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-type="link">disclosure</a> was the restaurant his mother owns.&#8221;
&#8220;I couldn’t care less about the comments he made about me, but they are a reflection of his character,&#8221; Daniels wrote, comparing Platner to &#8220;Tim Walz on steroids&#8221; and pointing out that Platner has also used his keyboard to trash-talk Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and Vice President JD Vance. &#8220;I never thought I’d see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this.&#8221;
The disgusting revelations have added another scandal to Platner’s campaign just two weeks before the Maine primary, drawing a furious rebuke from incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
Collins, <a href="https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/politics/maine-politics/sen-susan-collins-criticizes-challenger-graham-platner-comments-about-her-and-2019-reddit-post-teddy-daniels/97-54f2209c-e5c5-4737-8876-4f7fa7b71a5d">speaking</a> at a fire station groundbreaking in Auburn, Maine, revealed that outraged veterans from all across the United States have been flooding her office to voice their disgust. For Collins, the insult is deeply personal — her own father was a World War II veteran who earned two Purple Hearts at the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded just after turning 19.
“You have Graham Platner using profanity and saying that this wounded soldier doesn’t deserve to live,” a visibly appalled Collins told reporters. “These are men and women who are risking their lives for our country &#8230; for him to ridicule this soldier and saying that he doesn’t deserve to live is just appalling.”
Platner tried to salvage his campaign by releasing a frantic video statement, attempting to blame Collins for sending him to war because of her 2002 vote to authorize military action in Iraq.
But Collins instantly nuked that defense, pointing out that Platner wasn&#8217;t drafted — he voluntarily enlisted twice long after the war had already begun, and then chose to cash in by working for the controversial private mercenary firm Blackwater.
The U.S. Senate primary in Maine is on June 9. Platner is expected to cruise to victory in the Democratic primary after his main opponent, Democratic Governor Janet Mills, suspended her campaign.

Maine Democrat Graham Platner Is Winning Voters All ‘Pissed At The Same Thing’

Purple Heart Hero Levels Radical Dem Who Mocked His War Wounds

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The widow of the late American hero Chris Kyle ripped into Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner for disparaging her dead husband. 
Taya Kyle told Fox News on Sunday that Platner was &#8220;cowardly&#8221; for lying about her late husband, and accused the Democrat of using a &#8220;cheap political trick&#8221; to distract from Platner&#8217;s controversies. 
In a resurfaced podcast episode, Platner in 2024 suggested Kyle, the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history, intentionally killed civilians to inflate his sniper kill count. Kyle was murdered in 2013 by a veteran suffering from PTSD he was trying to help.
&#8220;To me, nothing says, &#8216;I want attention&#8217; more than disparaging a national hero who&#8217;s also dead,&#8221; Taya <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6396510537112">said</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s transparent, it&#8217;s cowardly, it&#8217;s lowbrow to lie about somebody else, and it distracts from &#8230; I think some things that he has said.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s this cheap political trick to say, &#8216;Ya know, I haven&#8217;t done a whole lot, so let me attach my name to somebody who&#8217;s beloved, and if nothing else, I&#8217;ll get out in the news,'&#8221; the widow continued. &#8220;And that&#8217;s working for him to get that notoriety. But to me, it shows a total inability to lead with character. So for me, he would be out of the running immediately.&#8221;
Platner&#8217;s comments have hurt the Kyle family, Taya said. &#8220;My kids are 21 and 20 — they&#8217;re grown adults, and I wish I could tell you that it doesn&#8217;t hurt, but it does.&#8221;
Taya added that it&#8217;s &#8220;obvious&#8221; to her family that Platner did not know her late husband, yet still made his disparaging remarks. &#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine anyone voting for someone like that,&#8221; she said.
Robert O&#8217;Neill, the Navy SEAL credited with killing Osama bin Laden, recently sounded off on Platner&#8217;s comments, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/navy-seal-killed-bin-laden-rips-platner-barbaric-post-trashing-soldier-fire-line">calling</a> the candidate jealous.
&#8220;That would just stem from jealousy, maybe because Chris Kyle&#8217;s name became famous for a whole bunch of confirmed kills,&#8221; O’Neill said. &#8220;The jealousy is there. I&#8217;ve seen the jealousy too, but professional jealousy, stuff like this is really, really rare between veterans.&#8221;
Platner is also taking heat over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/purple-heart-hero-mocked-by-graham-platner-has-one-question-for-dems?author=Jordan+Schroeder&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Hotwire&amp;rowType=Four+Column+Grid&amp;title=Purple+Heart+Hero+Mocked+By+Graham+Platner+Has+One+Question+For+Dems">resurfaced Reddit comments</a> showing the candidate mocking Purple Heart recipient Ted Daniels and saying he “didn’t deserve to live” following a brutal firefight in Afghanistan.
Daniels recently told the New York Post he wants liberal lawmakers like Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to explain to his children why they are backing a candidate who mocked the possibility of their father being killed in combat.
Additionally, Platner has been criticized for resurfaced images allegedly showing the Democrat with a Nazi-linked tattoo.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/purple-heart-hero-mocked-by-graham-platner-has-one-question-for-dems?author=Jordan+Schroeder&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Hotwire&amp;rowType=Four+Column+Grid&amp;title=Purple+Heart+Hero+Mocked+By+Graham+Platner+Has+One+Question+For+Dems">Purple Heart Hero Mocked By Graham Platner Has One Question For Dems</a>

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Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is refusing to apologize after resurfaced online posts appeared to show him mocking a Purple Heart recipient who was almost killed in a firefight with the Taliban.
Platner was confronted near his home in Sullivan, Maine, and asked whether he regretted a since-deleted Reddit post in which he said wounded Army veteran Ted Daniels “didn’t deserve to live,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-platner-doesnt-apologize-purple-heart-recipient-voters-when-confronted-post-mocking-soldier" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according</a> to Fox News. Platner initially refused to answer directly before attempting to defend his own military record, referring to the accusations as &#8220;slanderous and offensive.&#8221;
“I did four tours in the infantry, any attempt to say that I disrespect veterans is slanderous and offensive,” Platner responded.
The outlet asked Platner if he owed Daniels an apology. The Democratic candidate remained defiant, saying, &#8220;Do you know how many of my friends have Purple Hearts? Do you know how many of my friends got wounded? Yeah, a lot of them, thank you.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/platners-deleted-reddit-sparks-outrage-appears-mock-wounded-soldier-didnt-deserve-live" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">post</a>, written in 2019, was a brutal takedown of a viral video from the helmet-cam of Pfc. Ted Daniels, during a 2012 firefight with the Taliban, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/didnt-deserve-to-live-leftist-candidate-appears-to-mock-wounded-soldier-in-resurfaced-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>. Daniels received a Purple Heart after being shot four times during that firefight — but Platner argued in a post attributed to his old account, “P-hustle,” that Daniels did not “deserve to live” because he’d made “sh*t” decisions in combat.
“This video never gets old,” the commentary began. “Dumb motherf*cker didn’t deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat-*ss wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban’s part is the only reason this mouth breather made it home, he managed to make every possible sh*t decision possible when it comes to small unit combat.”
The Platner’s comments have received significant backlash. He is currently backed by progressive Democrats, including Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Veterans groups, Republican officials, and former military servicemembers have condemned his comments, Fox News reported.

Maine Senatorial Candidate Graham Platner Speaks To Voters During Town Hall

Platner Refuses To Apologize After Mocking Purple Heart Recipient

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They used to say that theater kids became politicians. Now, for the Democrat party, murderous, Nazi-loving freaks are becoming politicians.
The party that resoundingly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jay-jones-who-fantasized-about-murdering-republicans-will-be-virginias-next-attorney-general">elected</a> Jay Jones to Virginia attorney general — a man who texted a colleague that he hoped his opponent&#8217;s children would bleed out in their mothers&#8217; arms — and the party that championed an alleged rapist and Chinese-spy-loving farter as a leading candidate for California governor before he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-swalwell-to-resign-from-congress-over-sexual-misconduct-scandal">dropped out</a>, is now rallying behind Graham Platner for Maine Senate. Platner is currently in hot water for posting about masturbating in porta-potties and gushing over graffiti of the male genitalia.
Yeah. I’ll let you read the “D*ck Art” posts and erotic “Portash*tter” comments <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/maine-senate-dem-candidate-graham-platner-gushed-over-phallic-graffiti-boasted-about-porta-potty-sex-acts-in-reddit-posts/">yourself</a>.
If the name Graham Platner sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because we all know and hate him <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maine-senate-candidate-downplays-ss-skull-tattoo-i-am-not-a-secret-nazi">as</a> the &#8220;guy with the Nazi tattoo.&#8221; He has since covered up his Totenkopf, the &#8220;death&#8217;s head&#8221; symbol used by the Nazi SS, but the image has already been seared into our brains.
Even if Mainers could look past the blue-eyed, blond-haired, supposed Jew-hater having that particular piece of skin art, they&#8217;d still have to clear a few other <a href="https://archive.ph/ifBMa">hurdles</a>. Platner called himself a &#8220;communist&#8221; in 2021, declared &#8220;all cops&#8221; were bastards that same year, and used anti-gay slurs in 2018. His high school yearbook named him &#8220;most likely to start a revolution.&#8221; Last week, he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/magazine/graham-platner-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share">told</a> the New York Times, &#8220;We need a political revolution in this country.&#8221; Some things never change.
The cherry on top: in 2019, Platner <a href="https://x.com/magi_jay/status/2056550688818098395?s=20">posted</a> a chilling response to a video of American soldier and father of two Ted Daniels being wounded by the Taliban gunfire:
<blockquote>This video never gets old. Dumb motherf*cker didn&#8217;t deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat *ss wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness… Poor marksmanship on the Taliban&#8217;s part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home.</blockquote>
The most alarming part: Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) all lined up behind him anyway. VoteVets, the most influential Democrat-aligned veterans’ political organization, <a href="https://votevets.org/press-releases/votevets-pac-endorses-graham-platner-in-maine-u-s-senate-race">backed</a> him even after those anti-military comments surfaced. This isn&#8217;t a glitch. This is the feature.
That does it, Platten that Graham Cracker like a pancake — in the polls.
He can <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2055696604925927473">call</a> conservatives &#8220;fascists&#8221; and white rural <a href="https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/17/unearthed-reddit-comments-present-first-stumble-in-platners-rise/">Americans</a> &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;stupid.&#8221; We&#8217;re used to that, but cheering a soldier&#8217;s death at the hands of the Taliban is another matter entirely, and apparently, for the Democratic machine, not even a dealbreaker.
And they say Republicans are extreme?
What exactly does this character stand erect for besides phallic art and blue porta-potty water? He&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2056042288896262497" target="_blank" rel="noopener">furious</a> America spent billions of dollars on the Iran war and isn&#8217;t &#8220;talking about healthcare.&#8221; A man who relishes the thought of a wounded American soldier wants to manage your healthcare. The United States already spends $5.8 trillion on it annually. The <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/08/us-news/operation-epic-fury-military-success-in-iran-by-the-numbers/">military</a> consumes only 3% of GDP, and less than 10% of that went to Operation Epic Fury. His platform is the progressive greatest hits: higher taxes, bigger unions, more immigration, larger government, and less enforcement of the rule of law.
His opponent, Senator Susan Collins, the longest-serving female Republican in the Senate and the only GOP member of Congress from New England, has spent decades legislating on behalf of moderate, everyday folk. As the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Collins has delivered real results for Maine: federal funding, bipartisan legislation, and a temperament that doesn&#8217;t include cheering Taliban marksmanship. Losing her seat doesn&#8217;t just flip a vote; it hands the Left a gavel.
We get it, Platner. You&#8217;re angry at the world, and apparently at yourself. You&#8217;re seething with unprocessed trauma and expressing it through grotesque, sexualized hatred. We appreciate your service and genuinely hope you get the help you need, but that help won’t come from leading 1.4 million people, more than half of whom you likely despise based on their race, gender, religion, or ethnicity. Let’s stop rewarding insanity with power and condemn these insane behaviors to small, uninfluential dark chambers.
His primary win in June is all but certain after Gov. Janet Mills dropped out, which shows how full steam ahead the Democrat train is heading toward crazy town. It’s becoming more and more obvious that the Left has a type: unhinged, radical, and propped up by the full weight of the progressive establishment.
Theater kids in Congress were quaint. What the Left is fielding now is a communist with a covered SS tattoo, a porta-potty fetish, and open contempt for the troops his party pretends to honor.
Maine doesn&#8217;t need a revolution; it needs normalcy. It needs Susan Collins.

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Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner once lamented the closing of a loophole that allowed military contractors to save money on taxes by spending their time off “banging hookers in Thailand” instead of getting “b*tched” at by their wives back in the United States.
 “Spend your leave banging hookers in Thailand instead of getting b*tched at by the wife back home, and you could sell it as avoiding federal income tax,” Platner wrote on Reddit in June 2019. “Once the Afghans started using our paychecks as a personal piggy bank, that whole loophole disappeared.”
Platner made the comments under the name “P-Hustle,” a handle he admitted to using after an archive of his Reddit posts was <a href="https://themainemonitor.org/platner-reddit-comments/">reported</a> by the Maine Monitor. 
“Hell, with those DoD static contracts, those poor bastards literally are just making 65 a year,” Platner posted under the user name “P-Hustle” on a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/USMC/comments/bx52aq/comment/eq4szvj/?sort=top">thread</a>. “Sadly, the Afghan tax f***ed everybody on the 330 game.&#8221;
That appears to be a reference to <a href="https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion-physical-presence-test">IRS regulations</a> allowing a significant portion of income to be exempt if a person spends at least 330 days in a foreign country during a 12-month period. This allows American military contractors to avoid paying higher federal income taxes if they spend significant time overseas. 
During the final decade of the United States’ military operation in Afghanistan, contractors said the Afghan government taxed their income significantly more than the bilateral agreements between the two countries allowed. In 2013, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/audit-afghanistan-levied-93m-in-taxes-on-us-contractors-which-should-have-been-exempt/">found</a> that the Afghan government had levied $93 million in taxes on money that should have been exempt.
Platner went to Afghanistan multiple times, including once with the Maryland Army National Guard as an infantryman in 2010 and later in 2018 as a contractor for the State Department.
The Democrat has faced a barrage of criticism over past posts and statements in his bid to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). These comments have ranged from posts calling the Virgin Mary a “skank” to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deeply-disturbing-dem-candidates-sexually-explicit-porta-potty-posts-resurface?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘Deeply+Disturbing’%3A+Dem+Candidate’s+Sexually+Explicit+Porta+Potty+Posts+Resurface">discussions</a> on masturbating in portable public toilets. 
“I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a portash*tter… that blue water smell conditioned me,” he wrote in March 2017 in a thread on nostalgic military smells. In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deeply-disturbing-dem-candidates-sexually-explicit-porta-potty-posts-resurface?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Deeply+Disturbing%E2%80%99%3A+Dem+Candidate%E2%80%99s+Sexually+Explicit+Porta+Potty+Posts+Resurface">another thread</a> titled “GWOT Dick Art,” Platner described graffiti of a penis as “beautiful,” “engorged and veiny,” and moving “towards its penetrative glory,” according to Fox News. 
Platner has characterized many of his previous posts as jokes and apologized for his former comments about women. His campaign began with a burst of controversy when it was revealed that he had a tattoo on his chest that closely resembled a Totenkopf, the skull-and-crossbones emblem adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit.
The Democrat <a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2025-10-22/democratic-senate-hopeful-graham-platner-gets-tattoo-of-nazi-symbol-covered-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he received the tattoo while serving in the Marine Corps during a drunken night in Croatia and claimed he was unaware of its historical meaning at the time. The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/maine-platner-senate-trump-mills-tattoo-collins-fa8328a3c8aa5d5e0f34adb379e977b8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> later confirmed that he had the tattoo covered once the comparison became public, saying he did not want a symbol associated with hate on his body.
As of this writing, Platner leads Collins by 7.5 points, <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2026/maine/collins-vs-platner">according</a> to the RealClearPolitics polling average.

Democratic Senate Candidate For Maine Graham Platner Campaigns Around The State

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Far-left Senate candidate Graham Platner (D-ME) has once again landed in hot water over a now-deleted Reddit post that appears to mock a wounded soldier.
The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/platners-deleted-reddit-sparks-outrage-appears-mock-wounded-soldier-didnt-deserve-live">post</a>, written in 2019, was a brutal takedown of a viral video from the helmet-cam of Pfc. Ted Daniels during a 2012 firefight with the Taliban. Daniels received a Purple Heart after being shot four times during that firefight — but Platner argued in a post attributed to his old account, &#8220;P-hustle,&#8221; that Daniels did not &#8220;deserve to live&#8221; because he&#8217;d made &#8220;sh*t&#8221; decisions in combat.
&#8220;This video never gets old,&#8221; the commentary began. &#8220;Dumb motherf*cker didn&#8217;t deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat-*ss wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban&#8217;s part is the only reason this mouth breather made it home, he managed to make every possible sh*t decision possible when it comes to small unit combat.&#8221;
Daniels, in later interviews, has explained that the actions he took were not tactically the best ones he could have made, but said that he had to make decisions in the moment he believed would &#8220;draw fire&#8221; away from others in his unit.
&#8220;I put my *ss on the line for other guys,&#8221; he said, even as he conceded it was not &#8220;a sound thing to do.&#8221;
Army Ranger veteran and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) minced no words in his response to Platner&#8217;s comment: &#8220;Graham Platner is a lying, antisemitic fraud who has no business serving in the Senate.&#8221;
&#8220;Let’s see the courageous Democrat vets defend this one … can’t wait to hear it,&#8221; Navy SEAL veteran and Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) added.
Rep. and retired Navy SEAL Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) unloaded on Platner as well, saying, &#8220;This Nazi tattooed raging a*shole should be resoundingly condemned by every active duty military member and veteran. He is a disgrace to the uniform he previously wore and should be mocked and shamed.&#8221;
Platner has faced criticisms over a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nazi-tattoo-dem-blames-u-s-army-culture-for-ink-nasty-social-media-posts">Nazi tattoo</a> — which he recently had covered — as well as several offensive and vulgar social media posts, but still managed to rise as the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maine. He will face longtime incumbent Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) in November.

Platner Mocks Purple Heart Recipient In Resurfaced Post: ‘Didn’t Deserve To Live’

Far-Left Maine Candidate Says Wounded Soldier 'Didn't Deserve To Live'

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Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner made sexually explicit comments on social media about masturbating in portable public toilets, according to newly surfaced social media posts. 
&#8220;I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a portash*tter… that blue water smell conditioned me,” he wrote in March 2017 in a thread on nostalgic military smells, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unearthed-posts-show-dem-senate-hopeful-praising-vulgar-graffiti-making-crude-porta-potty-admissions">reported</a>.
In another reported thread titled “GWOT Dick Art,” Platner described graffiti of a penis as “beautiful,” “engorged and veiny,” and moving “towards its penetrative glory,” according to Fox News. 
The graffiti was found inside a portable toilet Platner used during one of his overseas deployments. Platner served three combat tours in Iraq as a Marine and went to Afghanistan in the infantry. 
&#8220;Oh sh*t!!!,&#8221; Platner added regarding the sexually explicit drawing in March 2021. &#8220;You’ve got the Hot Rod C*** from Manas!&#8221;
Describing his reaction to the explicit drawing, Platner said he “sat there in sheer awe&#8221; and was taken by &#8220;the soul filling joy to be allowed to witness such glory.&#8221;
Platner, looking to unseat Senator Susan Collins, made the most under the name &#8220;P-Hustle.” In the past, he has faced criticism for several vulgar posts he made from that account on women and Christianity. 
Platner’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
National Republican Senatorial Committee spokeswoman Samantha Cantrell called Platner’s posts “disturbing.” 
&#8220;Graham Platner’s explicit sexual behavior in public restrooms is deviant and deeply disturbing, especially from a man who blamed victims of sexual assault for their own rapes,&#8221; she said in a statement. 
Platner previously faced criticism for Reddit posts he made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attack-ad-targets-democrat-over-vulgar-past-comments-about-women?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Attack+Ad+Targets+Democrat+Over+Vulgar+Past+Comments+About+Women">saying</a> that women should “act like an adult for f*** sake” and “not get so f***ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to” if they are fearful of being raped.
He also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-under-fire-for-posts-calling-jesus-a-zombie-virgin-mary-a-skank?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Democrat+Darling+Under+Fire+For+Posts+Calling+Jesus+A+‘Zombie%2C’+Virgin+Mary+A+‘Skank’">called</a> the Virgin Mary a “skank” and said Jesus Christ was a “zombie.” 
“I’ve spent 8 years in the infantry, Marine Corps, and Army, and I’ve been about as crudely atheist as one can be the entire time (zombie jesus jokes and Mary sucking at covering up being a skank, as examples),” he wrote in 2012.
Platner has characterized many of his previous posts as jokes and apologized for his former comments about women.

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With Gov. Janet Mills out of the Democratic primary for Sen. Susan Collins’s seat, Mainers are going to get a clearer look at the kind of choice in front of us. And if we’re not careful, Maine could end up importing New York City’s latest far-left political experiment.
In last year&#8217;s mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani campaigned on radical policies like government-run grocery stores, free buses, and free child care. He spent more of his time attacking President Donald Trump or appeasing the antisemitic wing of his base rather than explaining how he would realistically implement any of his extreme — and costly — agenda.
Now, just over four months into Mayor Mamdani’s term, most of his promises have predictably fallen <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/10/us-news/here-are-the-promises-zohran-mamdani-broke-in-his-first-100-days-in-office/">flat</a>, and the city is in bad shape. Basic services are under strain in New York City; costs continue to rise, and leaders are pushing policies that make it harder for businesses and the jobs they create to stay. All of this is unfolding alongside a record $125 billion budget proposal and plans for major tax increases that are already driving workers and employers out.
Mainers should take this as a warning of what could come to the Pine Tree State, because the same playbook is starting to play out here.
The same Democratic activist networks that propelled Zohran Mamdani from obscurity to power are now lining up behind U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner in Maine.
Platner’s campaign is being run by Morris Katz, a Washington, D.C. strategist who helped engineer Mamdani’s rise from single-digit polling to a double-digit primary upset. In fact, Katz was recruited by Democratic operatives to find and build a candidate in that same mold, and he landed on Platner.
Platner has the same policy positions and extreme views as Mamdani, just packaged a little bit differently. Despite <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/working-class-graham-platner-attended-elite-75k-a-year-prep-school-known-for-famous-government-alumni/">attending</a> an expensive and elite prep school, Platner has leaned heavily into anti-establishment rhetoric, pretending to be a champion of the “working class” while calling for dismantling what he describes as a “billionaire economy.”
Like many candidates in this lane, his campaign launched with a viral video designed to tap into frustration and division, backed by national progressive networks tied to figures like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and, of course, Zohran Mamdani.
The Democrat operatives behind Platner’s campaign might be having him dress a certain way or embrace this false persona to try to relate to some Mainers, but the reality is that Platner’s policies are the same as those of Mamdani, Ocasio-Cortez, and Sanders. He has held a series of positions well outside the mainstream in Maine. He backs the Green New Deal and sweeping expansions of federal control over the economy. He has called for abolishing ICE and prosecuting its agents. He has supported efforts to target political opponents through impeachment and legal action, as well as pursuing the impeachment of conservative Supreme Court justices.
And despite Platner’s complete rebrand over the course of the campaign, he cannot hide his true colors and long-standing extremism.
In since-deleted posts, Platner <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/maine-senate-candidate-promoted-violent-political-action-in-since-deleted-online-posts-00613037">described</a> himself as a “communist.” Platner has also referred to our police officers as “<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/22/democrats-graham-platner-political-fantasy-00618031">opportunistic cowards</a>,” made <a href="https://emilyslist.org/sound-the-alarm/sound-the-alarm-graham-platner-says-sexual-assault-victims-should-take-some-responsibility-in-now-deleted-reddit-posts/">remarks</a> assigning responsibility to victims of sexual assault, and posted <a href="https://themainemonitor.org/platner-reddit-posts/">racially charged comments</a>. He <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/kfile-graham-platner-maine-senate-candidate-deleted-reddit-posts">said</a> rural white Americans “actually are” racist and stupid. Then, of course, there is the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/21/graham-platner-tattoo-nazi-00617686">Totenkopf tattoo</a> across his chest, a symbol long associated with Nazi units who terrorized Jews, the disabled, and supporters of democracy.
None of this sounds like the Maine we all know and love.
As a State Representative in Maine, the conversations I have with constituents are a lot more grounded. People are worried about the cost of living, rising electricity bills, and whether their kids will have the opportunity to stay and build a life here. They want safe communities, a stable economy, and leaders who are focused on practical solutions. And they definitely don’t want Mamdani-style big city socialism.
Maine has always valued independence and common sense. We don’t need to follow this path of experimenting with extreme policies that drive up costs and create uncertainty. We need leaders who understand our state, respect the people who live here, and are focused on delivering real results.
Platner’s campaign may be fueled by national attention and outside influence. But this election will be decided by Mainers and the direction we choose for our state.
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Laurel Libby is a member of the Maine House of Representatives.

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Vice President JD Vance unveiled what could become the Trump administration&#8217;s midterm messaging on Thursday as he took shots at Maine Democrats and touted the wins of the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force.
Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd in Bangor, Maine, Vance accused Democrats of refusing to cooperate with efforts to crack down on abuse and corruption.
“What I find so preposterous about Maine—it&#8217;s not just that we&#8217;ve found tens of millions of dollars of fraud in a relatively small state, it&#8217;s that we&#8217;ve had no cooperation from the state government,&#8221; Vance said.
Vance specifically called out the state&#8217;s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, saying her political career had been ruined by her eagerness to defend transgender ideology, and urging her to cooperate with the task force on targeting fraud before her tenure is up.
“I would love to work with the governor of Maine to stop the fraud that&#8217;s being perpetrated in this state,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;This should not be a red or blue state issue. This isn’t Republican or Democrat. This is common sense. This is protecting every person in this room from being defrauded by their own government.”
It was the vice president&#8217;s first trip to tout his Anti-Fraud Task Force, and Vance leaned heavily into that fraud messaging.
&#8220;Because you all work hard, because you all pay your taxes, because you do things the right way, it is time to have leadership in Washington that treats you the right way and protects those hard-earned tax dollars,&#8221; the vice president said. “For the first time in a very long time, you&#8217;ve got an administration in Washington, DC that is fighting for you, fighting to protect your tax dollars, and fighting to put the fraudsters in prison.”
As an example of this fraud the administration has uncovered, Vance pointed to the case of 30-year-old Rakiya Mohamed, who pleaded guilty in early March to filing false tax returns for 2018 and 2019 and interfering with the administration of federal tax laws. 
Mohamed owned a language interpretation business called Reliable Language Resources, but according to the vice president, she wasn&#8217;t doing any interpreting. 
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&#8220;This woman, her name was Rakiya Mohamed. It turns out that Rakiya Mohamed was not a particularly upstanding citizen,&#8221; said the vice president. &#8220;So while she said that she was providing interpretation services, do you know what she was actually doing? Providing zero services and collecting $15 million over a five-year period that was going directly into her pocket.&#8221; 
&#8220;That happened pretty much during the entirety of the Biden administration and no one in the Biden administration thought to step in and stop this ridiculous fraud,&#8221; he added. 
Vance went on to link the Trump administration&#8217;s anti-fraud message to its immigration agenda.
&#8220;Call me crazy, but I think that when we welcome new immigrants to the United States of America, they should be people who enrich our country and bring some good skills into the country, not a person who is gonna steal $15 million from the people in this room,&#8221; Vance said. 
He also referenced reporting by The Daily Wire&#8217;s Luke Rosiak, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=DW+Investigation+Reveals+One+Of+The+Biggest+Government+Waste+Scandals+Hiding+In+Plain+Sight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uncovered</a> large-scale Medicaid fraud involving home health agencies and questionable reimbursements.
&#8220;Every single day I learn of something new,&#8221; Vance shared. &#8220;I learn about people who say that they’re claiming for hospice services, but in fact, they’re not providing any services and they’re making hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in the process.&#8221;
On Wednesday, Vance announced that the Trump administration would cut off certain federal anti-fraud funding to states that don&#8217;t aggressively investigate Medicaid abuse, escalating the White House&#8217;s anti-fraud measures.
“Vice President Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud continues to produce results for the American people,&#8221; a Vance spokesperson told The Daily Wire. &#8220;In just two months, the task force has exposed billions of dollars in fraud and worked with law enforcement agencies to ensure that fraudsters are brought to justice. The hunt for fraud will continue until every last person who takes advantage of Americans’ generosity is stopped.”

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Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) is ending her bid for United States Senate, leaving populist Graham Platner to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in the extremely competitive general election that could determine which party controls the upper chamber.
Although Platner faced multiple scandals early in his campaign, including scrutiny of a now-covered Nazi symbol tattoo and past posts on social media, Mills struggled to gain traction in the polls. Mills had the backing of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), whereas Platner is backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
Mills said she did not have enough money to continue campaigning.
“When I decided to run for the United States Senate last year, it was because I believed Maine people were getting a bad deal from Washington and because the President of the United States was threatening our democracy and pushing our nation to the brink of disaster. I continue to believe that today,” Mills said in a statement on Thursday morning.
“While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else – the fight – to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources. That is why today I have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the United States Senate,” she added.
Mills gained national notoriety over her dispute with President Donald Trump over transgender-identifying athletes&#8217; ability to play in women&#8217;s sports, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-spars-with-maines-dem-governor-over-men-in-womens-sports-at-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“We’ll see you in court,” Mills said in a viral interaction with Trump when he asked her if she would comply with his Executive Order on the issue in 2025, which stated that it should &#8220;be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.&#8221;
“Good, I’ll see you in court,” Trump replied. “I look forward to that, that should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor, because I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics.
As for Platner, he faced backlash for past <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senate-hopeful-called-himself-a-communist-made-racist-comments-in-reddit-posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reddit posts</a>, including one&#8217;s where he called himself a &#8220;communist&#8221; and said &#8220;cops are bastards.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/17/graham-platner-sexual-assault-comments-senate-midterms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> reported multiple posts he made to Reddit in 2013 regarding sexual assault, including in the military.
“Rape is a real thing. If you’re so worried about it to buy Kevlar underwear you’d think you might not get blacked out f***ed up around people you aren’t comfortable with,” he wrote.
Platner, a veteran, apologized for his past remarks, but the posts became the subject of campaign ads from Mills, which did not seem to resonate with voters. Most recent polling in the primary election showed Platner ahead of Mills by double-digits, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls/senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolling</a>.
However, the Maine governor&#8217;s exit from the race is welcomed news to Republicans.
&#8220;Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats just coronated a phony who is too extreme for Maine. Susan Collins has always put in the work for her constituents and delivered. Washington Democrats always fall short in Maine and will again, because they just nominated a dishonest radical,&#8221; National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) said in a statement on Thursday morning.

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Dems Stuck With Nazi Tattoo Guy After Surprise Shake-Up In Senate Primary

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Maine Democrat Graham Platner, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Maine, faced backlash for his Nazi-symbol tattoo and several nasty social media posts — and during a recent interview, he attributed both on the &#8220;culture&#8221; that he was exposed to while serving in the United States military.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nazi-tattoo-guy-has-chuck-schumers-handpicked-candidate-on-the-ropes">Platner</a>, who served both in the Marine Corps and the U.S. Army, got the tattoo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/graham-platner-has-known-about-his-tattoos-nazi-connotations-since-2012">covered up</a> after the initial public outcry, appeared on &#8220;The Takeout with Major Garrett&#8221; — and he argued that the &#8220;hyper-masculine&#8221; culture in the infantry had &#8220;colored&#8221; his perspective in the past.
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&#8220;Graham, there have been a lot of things said about you. Things that you have written on Reddit, a tattoo you had and a controversy around that, and I want to ask you this, because I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s been put to you this way before: Is there anything you&#8217;ve done or said that you regret that did not come from the stresses you internalized from Post-Traumatic Stress itself? That is to say, is PTSD the explanation for everything, or did you also just make some additional human errors that you want to explain or contextualize?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ll be up front,&#8221; Platner said, adding that he&#8217;d never blamed his past behavior solely on the fact that he&#8217;d been diagnosed with PTSD.
&#8220;When I left the military, I came out of a hyper-masculine, hyper-violent place. I did four tours in the infantry. We have a crude sense of humor in the infantry. We certainly have a, I would say, narrow view of a lot of topics, and that colored my opinions and my beliefs,&#8221; Platner continued.
He went on to claim that it wasn&#8217;t until he got out of the military and spent time with different people that his thoughts and opinions began to change over time.
Platner went on to say that he didn&#8217;t believe his past opinions were related to his combat service necessarily, but said that &#8220;much of it was because of the culture I had come out of, and over the years in between, I&#8217;ve met a lot more people, had a lot more experiences, learned a lot more about the world, and my opinions have changed with it.&#8221;
Platner is currently polling well ahead of Governor Janet Mills (D-ME). Whoever wins the primary will face incumbent Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) in November&#8217;s general election.

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Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is increasingly confident that he will defeat Gov. Janet Mills in the June primary.
Platner has a 22% average lead in primary surveys, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/democratic-primary/2026/maine---3-electoral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolling,</a> despite the early days of his campaign being marred by scandal over a now-covered Nazi symbol tattoo and several resurfaced Reddit posts from the early 2010s in which he made demeaning comments about women and proclaimed that he “became a communist.”
Platner’s campaign manager Ben Chin told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/06/maine-senate-primary-democrats-mills-platner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> that the campaign is “shifting gears and going full steam ahead into the general,” but noted they “aren’t taking our foot [off] the gas in the primary.”
Mills is backed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who sees her as a critical piece to winning back control of the chamber, whereas Platner has garnered the endorsements of Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
&#8220;We&#8217;re feeling emboldened,” Chin told the outlet.
Mills has gone on the attack against Platner in recent commercials, highlighting his scandals and running with the tagline, “Graham Platner: The closer you look, the worse it gets.”
One advertisement in particular features older, white women reacting to the populist Democrat’s comments on Reddit with disgust, but Platner’s campaign appears to have bounced back following his apology over the posts in the fall.
“These comments are shameful,” <a href="https://x.com/JanetMillsforME/status/2036401559936852198?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mills</a> continued to hammer the point home via X on March 24. “While my opponent was saying this not long ago, I was fighting as Attorney General and Governor to deliver progress for Maine people.”
A Republican strategist familiar with the race told The Daily Wire that the race remains a “target-rich environment” that could ultimately benefit Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who will face off against whoever wins the primary.
“It’s not really breaking through for her,” the strategist said regarding the Mills attack ads, adding that it’s “definitely not looking good&#8221; for the governor&#8217;s campaign.
In terms of the overall Republican approach, given Platner’s staying power, the strategist noted that it’s “equal opportunity until the day she drops out” and the Republicans will continue to “keep hammering on both.”
Collins defeated Democrat Sara Gideon in 2020 with just under 51% compared with Gideon’s roughly 42%. The <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cook Political Report</a> rates the general election race as a “toss-up,” along with the contests in North Carolina, Georgia, and Michigan.
Republicans hold a narrow 53-47 majority in the chamber, and a flip could result in radically different policies headed to President Donald Trump&#8217;s desk in the second half of his term.
The Daily Wire reached out to the Mills, Platner, and Collins campaigns for comment.

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