Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s Deleted Social Media Posts Reveal Communist Leanings, Anti-Police Rants
Graham Platner is a Democratic Senate hopeful in Maine who has been quietly scrubbed of social media posts that raise real questions about his judgment and values. He is challenging Republican Susan Collins in a race where independent voters and moderates decide elections. The newly surfaced material matters because voters deserve transparency about a candidate’s views and associations.
Archived posts, now deleted, show Platner embracing radical language and labels that will make swing voters uneasy. In one thread he described a shift in his personal politics and identity. Those posts were removed before his campaign launch.
Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, once called himself a “communist,” dismissed “all” police as bastards, and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts reviewed by CNN’s KFile.
Most of the posts were made five years ago under Platner’s then-Reddit handle P-Hustle. They were deleted ahead of his campaign launch in August. The posts in some ways underscore Platner’s reputation as an anti-establishment outsider with unapologetically left-wing views. But the labels and tone used in his writings could also prove costly in a state known for electing political moderates.
The posts include blunt first-person lines that will be hard to explain away. On one Reddit thread Platner wrote, “Absolutely. I’m a vegetable-growing, psychedelics-taking socialist these days” and then added, “Still got the guns though, I don’t trust the fascists to act politely.” Those words are on record even if the accounts were later wiped.
On another thread Platner said plainly, “I got older and became a communist.” He also attacked police in a separate post: “Bastards. Cops are bastards. All of them, in fact.” Those comments, direct and charged, are difficult to reconcile with a pragmatic Senate campaign.
He did not stop at law enforcement. Platner wrote about rural white voters: “Living in white rural America, I’m afraid to tell you they actually are.” Remarks like that risk alienating large swaths of Maine’s electorate who expect respect for their communities.
However, a deeper dive into Platner’s background reveals that he has progressive roots and a progressive agenda. He’s hired Morris Katz, the ad maker for Democratic Socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani’s New York Mayoral campaign, and his campaign launch video calls for universal healthcare. His politics have earned him the nickname the “Maine Mamdani.”
Senator Bernie Sanders took his “Fight the Oligarchy” tour to Maine to campaign for Platner, and Platner is on record supporting Sanders’ bill to block American aid to Israel, and that he refuses to take money from the “billionaires” who fund the American-Israeli Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Platner also believes Israel’s war in Gaza is a “genocide.”
Platner has since tried to walk back the most explosive lines, presenting a softer public pitch as his campaign gears up. He told CNN, “I’m not a communist. I’m not a socialist. I own a small business. I’m a Marine Corps veteran.” That denial matters, but so do the archived posts and the people he’s chosen to work with.
He also offered a partial apology about his police comments, saying, “I can honestly say that that is me just being an a**hole on the Internet. I have an immense amount of friends who are police officers. They’re not all bastards because they’re literally buddies of mine.” Words like that read as both defensive and dismissive to voters who expect accountability from candidates.
Maine voters have a right to weigh Platner’s online record alongside his campaign promises and endorsements. His ties to prominent progressive figures and his past social media rhetoric will be part of the conversation as the race heats up.
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