Graham Platner, a Maine Democrat running for US Senate, speaks at a town hall at the Leavitt Theater on Wednesday, October 22, in Ogunquit, Maine. Sophie Park/Getty Images

Speaking at a town hall following days of negative revelations about his online posts and a tattoo that resembled Nazi imagery , Graham Platner was defiant.

“The amount of money and time it takes to dig through somebody’s entire past who has not lived a very public life is extensive and yet they are willing to expend those resources,” Platner told the audience in Ogunquit, Maine, on Wednesday evening.

“They are not trying to organize people. They are trying to destroy my life,” he pushed back.

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