Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said Sunday on CNN that U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s unearthed social media comments are not “disqualifying.”

“I don’t think they’re disqualifying, but certainly they’re not right. And I’m glad that he apologized for them. They’re indefensible, they’re hurtful and they’re offensive,” Martin said on CNN’s “State of the Union. ”

Platner is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ seat.

His old social media posts resurfaced last week, some of them dating back more than a decade and others from recent years.

On Friday, Platner apologized for the comments , saying they reflected an earlier version of himself who was “struggling deeply.”

In now-deleted Reddit posts, Platner described himself as a “comm

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