Graham Platner may have won the Democratic primary for Maine Senate, but one fellow Democrat does not view him as from the same political party.
“He’s not even a Democrat,” Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) said to Fox News’s Laura Ingraham in an interview Friday.
“We’re the party of pearl clutching, and now we’ve embraced him because we don’t have a choice,” Fetterman said.
“Like if you can’t really defend him, you could at least say, well, he has a ‘D’ after his name, but he’s not even a Democrat,” the Pennsylvania senator added. “He actually described himself as a communist.”
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After winning Tuesday’s Maine primary, Platner will take on incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in November.
Platner, an Army veteran turned oyster farmer, has had to overcome some hurdles along the way.
He recently acknowledged allegations that he sent sexual messages to women who were not his wife early in their marriage.
Many former girlfriends told The New York Times that he displayed “toxic” and “unsettling” behavior throughout their relationships.
Platner has denied any allegations of physical intimidation or altercations.
He told MS NOW last week “those serious allegations are just not true.”
He has also called himself a “communist” as well as called police “bastards.”
Platner covered a chest tattoo after he said “reporters and D.C. insiders” informed him that it resembled a Nazi symbol.
Platner pointed to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a source of his issues.
In his victory speech earlier this week, spoke about the damaging reports.
“Now, the national pundits, the political establishment, they keep looking for that one story, that one headline, that one moment in my life that they can define the campaign by,” he said. “But in trying so hard to understand me, they failed to understand that this is not about me at all. This is a movement about us.”
This did not move Fetterman.
“This isn’t redemption; this is a guy who’s been caught,” he said Friday.
He also scoffed when Ingraham asked if he’d campaign for Collins.
“Of course not,” Fetterman said. “I am a Democrat. Senator Collins, we have different views.”
