Platner on Chris Hayes tonight.

and those vibes have gotten stronger over the past months. I certainly want us to defeat Collins, but I don't want another Eric Swalwell debacle.

While they ignore the rapist in the Oval Office.

sister’s been on the shows, I guess about a book,

Thinking of Al Franken, too.

And they were both in elected office already.

New Yorker
The Case of Al Franken
Jane Mayer
July 22, 2019

https://web.archive.org/web/20190829044419/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken

Per one of the exes, he knew exactly what the tattoo was and why he got it. I personally don't believe for a second he didn't know what it was.

"Ms. Fifield said he told her that he and other members of his unit selected the tattoo because “they were like a death unit, they were killers,” and saw a parallel between their unit and the Nazi Schutzstaffel, or S.S., unit, that used the skull-and-crossbones image."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html

Would vote for Collins. Of course, she told the NY Times it was a joke when she put that in writing.

Would you not count that as a corroboration?

This is definitely a "rough patch" for his campaign.

I for one hope he can weather it because chances of winning the Senate improve if he pulls it out.

And Susan Collins needs to go.

He has acknowledged as poor behavior. But keep feeling if this is what they came up with after working and trying so hard I personally can’t get that worked up about it. It seems like so much focus being made to take this guy down. And im much more interested in taking Susan Collins down.

He was a terrible boyfriend. And a bad husband who decided to work on that. He had anger issues. He drank too much. Stuff he’s acknowledged.

They spoke to 3 women he previously dated during different times - none more recently than 2016. The only “serious” allegation — if you want to call it that is one said Platner knew what his tattoo stood for. She is Lindsey Fifield, a conservative activist who met him when he was a student at George Washington University. Their roughly two-year, on-again, off-again relationship, as Ms. Fifield described it, was heady and passionate. She said re tattoo that he had taught her the word for it years earlier, referring to it as “my Totenkopf.” She also described volatile arguments where they got physical but never hitting etc. She was quick to note that he “never hit me, he never punched me.” Also per NY Times, no person could corroborate this.

“A friend who knew Mr. Platner and Ms. Fifield during that period said the comments sounded out of character.” And The Times reviewed texts between Ms. Fifield and Mr. Platner, along with Google Chat exchanges, texts and Facebook messages between Ms. Fifield and her friends during and after the relationship. The Times also reviewed some of Ms. Fifield’s diary entries from after the relationship had ended, and spoke with two of her friends who confirmed that the pair had an emotionally volatile relationship but could not corroborate the physical altercations or the most controversial comments she described.

Re Tatto -

The Times also spoke to 3 women he dated who did not have the same experiences but their quotes are at very bottom of article.

As I’ve said before… he is a flawed candidate. But the gusto that the media is displaying in trying to find things — and this is what they got — only makes me angry with the real sexual predators out there, and the demeaning and disgraceful and mean policies being advocated and supported by Susan Collins — there is so much scrutiny on Graham Platner. As he has said…

“I take responsibility for all of that, and wish I had been better,” he said. “Any characterization beyond that is false, and I believe, politically motivated. I’m not proud of who I was then, but I am proud of the work I’ve done since, and the movement we are building in Maine.”

Gift link. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nlA.wqrh.qsFXZJJ3jQ-d&smid=nytcore-ios-share]

before he acknowledged having it. I think it's pretty clear she didn't make that up. She also said other people in his unit got the exact same tattoo to symbolize that they were killers, similar to SS. Seems easy enough to check if the others have the exact same tattoo.

is why did he only tell her about it. Not a single other woman. If he was so proud he gave it a name why not let his other lovers in on it? And if Nazi tattoos are outlawed in the service, what about all his friends that got it at the same time and were also in the service.

Just some questions. But honestly there is nothing in his recent past that gives me, a Jew, concern re any antisemitism. Nothing. Far more frankly worried, as a Jew and with Israeli family who has spent much time in Israel, about the blind trust of Israel and its war mongering with Bibi.

So I am not sure why voting for Collins is suspicious.

co servati e activist I dont doubt she would. Why she said she was only kidding to the NY Times I have no idea.

Suspicious? I have questions which I enumerated.

Given that, are you really surprised if his ex-girlfriends are not going to vote for him?

“Similar “

The thing is, he will be the nominee in a few days.

I will be pulling for him in the general. (I live in WA, so have no say). I have trouble imagining a skeleton big enough to make Susan Collins and lower chances of Dems winning the Senate a "better" option.

I could be wrong about him. He could win and implode in office, but Susan Collins will be gone.

And, if he did implode, and Shah (or whoever gets the nod on the 9th) wins the governorship, we'd have a Dem appointed until a special election.

Because that's abusive behavior.

And the most recent of the women dated him from 2019 to 2021, so that part of your defense is incorrect.

The New York Times cited critical comments from two other women. Jenny Racicot, 41, a Democrat from Maine, who said she dated Platner from 2019 to 2021, told the paper: “When I saw the old comments that he made online, I recognized a version of him that I had experiences with.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/04/graham-platner-maine-new-york-times-report

This is:

Also friends of both of theirs said it was a volatile relationship but that seemed out of character for him. But yes she said it.

In full disclosure once my husband of 45 years and I were fighting in a car and I wanted to get out and tried to open door at a red light. He grabbed my arm. It hurt but we made up by the time we got home.

And yes, one of the women is conservative but another is a Democrat. Are we still sticking with "boys will be boys" here?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html

Lyndsey Fifield, 40, a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns, recalled him as “cavalierly contemptuous of women’s emotions, of our ‘weakness.’” Ms. Fifield, who dated Mr. Platner from roughly 2013 to 2015, said that his offensive online posts “reminded me of just how much he hated women.”

Jenny Racicot, 41, a Maine Democrat, who said she dated him casually off and on between 2019 and 2021, said the posts deepened her belief that he did not respect women. “When I saw the old comments that he made online,” she said, “I recognized a version of him that I had experiences with.”

Some of the women also raised questions about his trustworthiness. Mr. Platner’s insistence that he did not know that his tattoo was a Nazi symbol until it became a campaign issue last fall was simply not true, Ms. Fifield said. After all, she said, he had taught her the word for it years earlier, referring to it as “my Totenkopf.”

Now I think he is much worse a person. RUN away from him!!!

BREAKING: Several women recall 'unsettling' experiences with Graham Platner per New York Times - Deadline - MS NOW
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