Graham Platner, a U.S. military veteran and oyster farmer who is running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Maine, is distancing himself from controversial online posts where, among many things, he called himself a "communist" and suggested that some political resistance should include firearms in series of now-deleted posts that stretch back to 2010. CNN first reported on the posts made on the Reddit platform. In an interview with ABC News, Platner confirmed the account, posting under the username P-Hustle, was his. In one since-deleted post in 2018, Platner wrote that if people "expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history," according to a Politico report. During a phone interview with ABC News on Friday, Platner

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