The progressive Democratic congressman Ro Khanna issued a qualified defense of the Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on Sunday, saying “his actions were misogynistic, they were shameful, they were wrong, but they didn’t come as a surprise to a lot of the folks in Maine.”
The former marine-turned-oyster farmer, who is campaigning to unseat the state’s Republican senator Susan Collins in November, has been hit with successive waves of accusation about his past actions, including sexually explicit messages he sent to women while married and being stenciled with a Nazi-themed tattoo.
