Despite winning the popular vote by 8.6%, her 51% share of the vote was her worst performance since her first election in 1996 and was a 17-point drop from 2014. Maine was the only state to elect a senator of a different party than the winner of its presidential contest in the November 3 election, with Collins outperforming President Donald Trump, who lost the state to Democratic nominee Joe Biden by 9.1%.[1
This is what he said in a statement a few months ago:
Actually, he did not remove it which would have taken quite a bit of time according to him so he had it covered up, but isn't the real question whether he is a NAZI sympathizer and only covered up his tattoo in order to avoid being found out that he is a NAZI sympathizer ?
I don't think he's a Nazi sympathizer. I believe his story about getting the tattoo when he was a dumb 23 year old and not knowing what it meant. My issue is really about his judgment in not realizing earlier that the tattoo was problematic and/or not acting quicker to cover it up when he did realize that, and instead only doing it reactively in response to the media firestorm.
That is the question. When did he realize his tattoo was also a NAZI symbol ? Was it years ago and he said fuck it, I don't give a shit I'm going to wear it loud and proud or did he realize it after political opposition research brought it to the attention of the public and his campaign ?
Well, in fairness, if he didn't know what it meant when he was 23, why would he think to cover it up ten years later? Do people usually inventory their tattoos? "Better make sure none of this ink has Nazi ties?"
I hate this shit. It's Stephen Miller's favorite move. Get outraged because people infer something reasonable about you.
agreed.
We all learn a lot of things between age 23 and 40 that we didn't know before. I'm a little skeptical that in the 18 years after he got the tattoo, he never saw or learned anything that made him wonder what the symbol on his tattoo really was (or that no one he knew was like "Hey that thing looks kind Nazi-like, doesn't it"?
Can you post the original Stew Peters tweet and the Platner or the "someone " who runs his campaign retweet ? Depending upon whether he did, that would certainly concern me. If you can't then I will just put your post in my " I don't believe you " file
If true that’s quite the own goal.
The positive thing is he addresses the matter at every town. Mainers don't seem to be as concerned as you do so he has that going for him.
I'm not really that concerned. I just don't find his explanation of when he found out about the problem or what he did about it fully satisfying.
In fairness, I know a few things about history and I did not recognize the tattoo as a Nazi symbol. I mean, I don't study regalia, but I think I'm a pretty good litmus test. If I didn't know, it can't be implausible that he wouldn't know.
Ugh. I mean, there's nothing in that post that is objectionable, so retweeting it would be no concern at all but for the author. And just because a person is a holocaust denier doesn't mean they are wrong about Middle Eastern wars.
