Scott Jennings Explains Why Democrats Still Back Candidate With ‘Literal Nazi Tattoo’

Republican strategist Scott Jennings explained on Wednesday that he believes Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner continues to have support because Democrats favor far-left candidates.

Platner’s unearthed Reddit posts showed the Democrat urging people to use violence as a tool for social change and has a chest tattoo that appears to be connected to Nazi symbolism, but these revelations have not led some supporters to abandon him. Jennings said on “CNN News Central” that far-left Democrats online have remained particularly loyal to Platner, believing he is a “bigger fighter” than his opponent, Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills.

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“If you’ve seen the online discourse around this candidacy, this guy is the favorite of the radical left base of the Democratic Party. They are standing by him despite the fact he has a literal Nazi tattoo on his chest and he’s made abhorrent comments in some of these Reddit threads that he’s been involved in,” Jennings said. “They are unwilling to walk away from it because they want the candidates who are the most radical and the most progressive and they are willing to put up with Nazi symbolism and other terrible remarks because of it.”

“This is their guy. I don’t think they’re going to walk away from him. right — the popular Mills, I guess, is going to be in this primary … Look at your friends this morning, Paul,” he continued. “Look what they’re saying about this guy. They want the Democratic Party to stand next to him because they think he’s the bigger fighter. He’s the non-establishment guy. And they’re willing to overlook the Nazi stuff over it? I don’t know.”