Mills and Platner spar over attack ad in intensification of Maine primary to face Susan Collins
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Democratic U.S. Senate hopefuls Gov. Janet Mills and Graham Platner are sparring over an advertisement released by the Mills campaign criticizing Platner’s past online comments
PORTLAND, Maine -- The campaign of U.S. Senate hopeful Gov. Janet Mills released an advertisement Tuesday criticizing comments posted online by her rival Graham Platner, in an intensification of their Maine Democratic primary battle.
Mills and Platner are competing for the Democratic nomination to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins, whose seat is key for Democrats' plans to take back the Senate.
The Mills campaign released a video in which women read some of Platner's old social media posts that were dismissive of sexual assault. A narrator in the ad says Platner once wrote on Reddit that people shouldn't get so drunk “they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.”
The women conclude that he is “a bully” and there is “no way” they could vote for him. The video ends with a voiceover saying: “Graham Platner: the closer you look, the worse it gets.”
Platner, an oyster farmer and U.S. Marine veteran from rural Maine, apologized for his deleted comments months ago when they first resurfaced, and said he posted them while struggling with mental health issues after leaving the military. The comments showed him endorsing political violence, dismissing rape in the military and criticizing police officers and rural America.
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