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Anti-Israel oysterman in Maine poised to become Democratic nominee for US Senate

www.timesofisrael.com·Andrew Lapin·about 1 month ago
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JTA — Graham Platner, the oyster farmer and political neophyte whose past Nazi tattoo and current anti-Israel rhetoric have caused concern among some Jewish groups, has effectively clinched the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Maine after his primary opponent, Janet Mills, suspended her campaign Thursday. A key Jewish Democrat, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, said in a statement that he would support Platner’s bid to unseat Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins. Schumer had initially recruited Mills to run. “After years of allowing Trump’s abuses of power, Senator Collins has never been more vulnerable and we will work with the presumptive Democratic nominee Graham Platner to defeat her,” Schumer said in a joint statement with fellow New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who runs Senate Democrats’ campaign arm. Mills, the state’s current governor, did not endorse or even name Platner in her concession statement . Instead, she cited a lack of campaign funds.…

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