ME-SEN: DNC chair: Platner's resurfaced comments 'not disqualifying' [View all]

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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said Sunday that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s resurfaced comments are not “disqualifying.”

“I don’t think they’re disqualifying, but certainly they’re not right. And I’m glad that he apologized for them. They’re indefensible, they’re hurtful and they’re offensive,” Martin told Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Platner, a veteran and oyster farmer who is running a progressive campaign in the Pine Tree State, called himself a “communist,” called “all” police officers “bastards” and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, according to a review of previously deleted Reddit posts conducted by CNN’s KFILE.

In 2013, Platner also minimized issues that service members face in reporting sexual assault and said those who are raped should “not get so f—ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to,” according to The Washington Post.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5562531-platner-resurfaced-comments-dnc-chair/