Graham Platner once described himself as a ‘communist’ in deleted social media post

Insurgent U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is disavowing incendiary posts he made a few years ago on a social media platform.

In the now-deleted Reddit posts, Platner described himself as a “communist,” castigated rural white Americans as “racist” and “stupid,” and called all cops “bastards.”

While he disavowed those posts made on various left-wing subreddits around 2020-21, Platner still stands by another post telling conservative musician Ted Nugent to “suck a d*ck,” according to CNN, which first reported about the posts deleted ahead of his campaign launch.

“To be fair,” Platner told CNN. “I’m not really regretful of that one.”

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