{"id":26520,"date":"2026-05-01T14:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26520"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:28:52","slug":"dems-stuck-with-nazi-tattoo-guy-after-surprise-shake-up-in-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/dems-stuck-with-nazi-tattoo-guy-after-surprise-shake-up-in-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Stuck With Nazi Tattoo Guy After Surprise Shake-Up In Senate Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) is ending her bid for United States Senate, leaving populist Graham Platner to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in the extremely competitive general election that could determine which party controls the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Although Platner faced multiple scandals early in his campaign, including scrutiny of a now-covered Nazi symbol tattoo and past posts on social media, Mills struggled to gain traction in the polls. Mills had the backing of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), whereas Platner is backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/maine-dem-who-sparred-with-trump-over-trans-athletes-ends-campaign?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=53&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Dems+Stuck+With+Nazi+Tattoo+Guy+After+Surprise+Shake-Up+In+Senate+Primary\">dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) is ending her bid for United States Senate, leaving populist Graham Platner to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in the extremely competitive general election that could determine which party controls the upper chamber. Although Platner faced multiple scandals early in his campaign, including scrutiny of a now-covered Nazi symbol tattoo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/dems-stuck-with-nazi-tattoo-guy-after-surprise-shake-up-in-senate-primary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dems Stuck With Nazi Tattoo Guy After Surprise Shake-Up In Senate Primary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6TK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26521,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520\/revisions\/26521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}