Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at his Primary Election event on June 9, 2026 in Blue Hill, Maine. Getty Images See more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on Google ‘My kinda man!”
That’s how Sen. Elizabeth Warren described Graham Platner during a campaign event as she endorsed the US Senate wannabe from Maine.
That’s a badge of shame that she, and dozens of other top Democrats, must wear for all time.
Platner was Warren’s kind of man even after Americans found out about the Nazi symbol he wore on his chest for close to two decades.
She stood behind him after it emerged that Platner said women concerned about rape should “take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f–ked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.”
And after we learned he had written “I dig it” next to an online video of Hamas terrorists murdering Israeli soldiers.
Now, months later, Warren — along with Sen. Bernie Sanders and countless other erstwhile Platner fans — have finally pulled the plug on their support for the progressive wunderkind.
I’ve known the name Graham Platner for years: He’d had a tumultuous relationship with one of my best friends, Lyndsey Fifield, more than a decade ago. I was shocked last summer when she told us that he’d be running for Senate.
That’s when she dropped another bombshell about him: “He has a Nazi tattoo on his chest,” she said.
Months later, Platner appeared on the “Pod Save America” podcast to wave away the ink’s existence with a cover-up tale the “Pod” bros pretended to believe.
But now even they have changed their tune, after Politico dropped another ex-girlfriend’s harrowing allegation that Platner once barged into her home and raped her.
“Platner needs to drop out ASAP — these are awful, credible allegations,” “Pod” co-host Jon Favreau wrote on X late Monday.
In a rational world, an actual Nazi tattoo would have meant Platner’s instant disqualification by national Democrats.
So should Fifield’s account of Platner’s domestic violence, described last month in a New York Times report that whitewashed allegations from her and several other ex-girlfriends.
But even the details that survived the Times’ “catch and kill” story should have made Platner ballot-box poison: They painted a picture of a man willing to use his physical strength as a weapon against women.
They did not — because the Times took pains to center Fifield and her conservative political background in its report.
Now, finally, Democrats have found their bright red line.
It wasn’t the many previous accusations — and it wasn’t even Monday’s documented allegation of rape.
The line was simply this: Platner had begun to drop in the polls.
When it looked like he could grab a Senate seat away from the Republicans, Democrats were thrilled to boost him on their principle-free, vibes-based non-platform.
But the rest of us should never let them forget it.
Platner’s stain must shame them all — and should keep these craven fiends far, far away from the power they so desperately seek.
Bethany Mandel writes and podcasts at The Mom Wars.
