The poll shows that 58% of likely Democratic primary voters favor Platner. Janet Mills, Maine's two-term governor, who was recruited by national party leaders, was polling at just 24%. None of the other candidates in the crowded field received more than 1%.

      • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1015·
        9 months ago

        Talk is cheap. See what happened with Fetterman? This guy is already showing who he is. He shot civilians in Fallujah. This dude should be in The Hague, I ain’t gonna trust anyone who got a fucking Nazi symbol engraved in them, they belong in the dustbin of history. The dude got the tattoo covered this week, because of the negative press about it. He was happy to keep that nazi symbol on his chest for nearly two decades and only got it removed because it got him flak.

            • Nefara@lemmy.world
              142·
              9 months ago

              Interesting that the website you linked uses heavily biased language, cites a source that’s literally a guy who knew a guy who knew Platner, and consistently attacks the most prominent left-ish figures in American politics like Mamdani, Sanders and Cortes. Looks to me like a phony left website set up to trap leftists into thinking it’s on their side. Hmmm what does Common Dreams have to say?

              https://www.commondreams.org/tag/graham-platner

              Interesting.

              • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                21·
                9 months ago

                Yeah, the language of the site is charged and I don’t agree with all of it, but it really doesn’t set off any alarm bells for you that this guy served at Abu Ghraib and later became a mercenary for Blackwater as recently as 2018? Like the dude with the Nazi tattoo who signed up to kill more people for US interests during the first Trump admin doesn’t seem like a red flag?

                It doesn’t strike you as strange that this dude had a Nazi symbol tattooed on him for nearly two decades and only got it covered up recently when there was bad press about it?

                  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                    2·
                    9 months ago

                    I get what you’re saying in terms of “why hide it?” but I think someone with his background belongs in a prison, not in the Senate. And it’s not like fascists haven’t been trying to infiltrate any part of government they can for decades.

                    And I simply cannot accept that someone has a nazi logo on their chest for nearly 20 years without learning its origins. That’s absolutely absurd. There’s no way he only found out it was a Nazi symbol this week.

                    I can forgive Nazis who had a brush with that kind of interest in their teens. Adults with fully formed brains who engage with Nazi imagery and are willing to shoot civilians for their government are fundamentally not good people. I cannot trust that person doesn’t have something inside them that is inherently antisocial and anathema to just society. In my personal experience, Nazis never reform, they simply learn to be quieter. If it’s even possible to be a reformed Nazi, they certainly shouldn’t be in government.

                    It looks like he’ll win the primary regardless. My opinion is ultimately irrelevant.