Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) addressed controversy over his tattoo of a Nazi symbol, showing a new tattoo that covered over the old one and saying he didn't know when he drunkenly got the tattoo while in the Marines that it had any Nazi ties. 

Platner, 40, is challenging Sen. Susan Collins (R) for the Senate seat with the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). A video released this week showed him drunk and sporting the SS skull and crossbones tattoo.

It's all an attempt to get him out of the race now that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has endorsed Maine Governor Janet Mills for the seat.

"[My donors] know that this is all nonsense. It is no surprise that these stories dropped within days of DC's chosen candidate getting into this race," Platner told local station WGME.

"Disgusting"

"I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that – and to insinuate that I did is disgusting. I already had the tattoo covered with a new design," Platner said of the tattoo, which he said he got in Croatia in 2007.

"It's a Celtic knot with some imagery around dogs, because my wife Amy and I, love dogs," he said of the new tattoo.

The tattoo is not the only controversy Platner has had to deal with this week.

The press has also made much of his Reddit history, in which he made comments about why Blacks don't tip and said that military women who get raped in the Army should watch how much they drink.

Old school

"I made that comment in 2013. I had just come out of the infantry, which was, at the time, all male. I rarely interacted professionally with women in the service,' he told WGME about the latter comment.

Platner, an oyster farmer by trade, was seen as the blue-collar alternative to MAGA, but perhaps that blue collar came with some baggage the left didn't expect.

He held several packed town halls in Maine and raised $3.2 million by railing against "oligarchy" and corporate greed.

The new working-class hero reminded people of old school Democrats but was progressive like Sanders and his ilk.

But with the skeletons of racism, misogyny and fascism that may be lurking in his closet, it may be a bridge too far for the Democrat Party as a whole.

The Chuck Schumers of the world don't want to associate with Platner when they are going around calling Trump and the MAGA movement racist and fascist. That's way too obviously hypocritical for them.