"Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a Newton Democrat, waded into the increasingly contentious Democratic Senate primary in Maine over the weekend by calling for progressive upstart Graham Platner to drop out. The comments come as Platner's campaign struggles to maintain its early momentum and weather multiple controversies related to revelations about the candidate's old posts online and a tattoo associated with Nazi imagery."
"Platner has said that he got the tattoo as a young Marine on shore leave in Croatia in 2007. It depicts a skull and crossbones " Totenkopf " symbol that was worn on some Nazi uniforms during Hitler's reign. Platner maintains that he had no idea that the image had Nazi connotations, and that he simply picked the design out from options on a wall in a tattoo parlor while drunk with his fellow Marines."
Representative Jake Auchincloss urged progressive Graham Platner to drop out of the Maine Democratic Senate primary, calling Platner's conduct a liability. Auchincloss criticized Platner for mocking police and rural Americans and cited a Nazi-associated tattoo as disqualifying for a U.S. senator. Platner explained he received the Totenkopf skull-and-crossbones tattoo as a young Marine on shore leave in Croatia in 2007 and said he did not recognize its Nazi connotations. Platner initially planned to remove the tattoo but instead had it covered due to limited local removal options and lengthy procedures. Platner's campaign faces waning momentum amid controversies over old online posts and the tattoo revelations.
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