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Democrats’ leftist takeover is complete with Graham Platner’s rise in Maine US Senate race

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01.05.2026

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Democrats’ leftist takeover is complete with Graham Platner’s rise in Maine US Senate race

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine has suspended her US Senate campaign after failing to raise enough money to compete in the coming Democratic primary with socialist Graham Platner — who will now almost certainly face the perpetual centrist Republican Susan Collins in the general election.

Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand immediately backed Platner, proving there’s virtually nothing a leftist can say or do that is disqualifying in today’s Democratic Party.

So, for 20 years you’ve had a Totenkopf skull-and-crossbones tattoo, most famously used by Hitler’s Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary organization that led, planned and executed the Holocaust?

You’d think that picking this symbol out of all the symbols that exist in the entire world would be an issue.

Not for Schumer, self-styled defender of Jewish interests and author of the 2025 book “Antisemitism in America: A Warning.”

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In keeping with his tattoo’s message, Platner has also praised the Islamic supremacists of Hamas — which, let’s face it, is not exactly extraordinary among progressives these........

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