GENERAL ELECTION SET

Nazi-Tattooed Dem Coasts to Victory in Maine

Graham Platner will now try to unseat Republican Susan Collins.

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner easily won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, beating Governor Janet Mills, who had dropped out of the race in April, the Associated Press reported. Platner, a 41-year-old oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, will now try to unseat five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins, 73, in November. Platner’s campaign has drawn attention in part due to a tattoo of his—which he has since covered up—resembling one used by a Nazi paramilitary organization. Platner told the Daily Beast last fall that he had only recently become aware that the tattoo, which he got while out drinking in Croatia with other Marines nearly 20 years ago, had Nazi connotations. In his victory speech on Tuesday, Platner said political commentators “keep looking for that one story, that one headline, that one moment in my life that they can define the campaign by.” He continued: “In trying so hard to understand me, they failed to understand that this is not about me at all. This is a movement about us, about the far too many, working far too hard and struggling far too much.”