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Maine Democrat Graham Platner's Top Aide Resigns Over Senate Candidate's Anti-White, Anti-Police Posts
Matthew Xiao
October 20, 2025
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner's political director resigned on Friday amid backlash over Platner's Reddit posts deriding white rural Americans, police officers, and people concerned about rape.
Platner's remarks "were not known to me when I agreed to join the campaign, and they are not words or values I can stand behind in a candidate," his political director, former state representative Genevieve McDonald, wrote in her resignation letter, obtained by the Bangor Daily News. "While I am empathetic to Graham's experiences and respect his personal journey and growth, I cannot overlook the volume and nature of his past comments, many of which were made as an adult, not as a young man."
Platner, who is running to challenge Republican senator Susan Collins in next year's midterms, sparked scrutiny last week after some of his past Reddit posts emerged. Platner wrote that he "became a communist," insisted that white people in rural America are "actually" racist and stupid, and referred to "all" police officers as bastards. He also claimed to keep guns in the house because he didn't "trust the fascists to act politely."
In another since-deleted Reddit post, Platner claimed that accusing him of watching CNN was worse than calling him a "retard." The Senate hopeful also asked why black people "don't tip" and suggested that people wearing "underwear designed to prevent sexual assault" should "take some responsibility for themselves and not get so bleep up," the Daily News reported.
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