On Thursday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press NOW,” Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D) said that the overlooking of prior allegations against Graham Platner and his Nazi tattoo “speaks to the frustration people have. They’re looking for someone who’s going to be a changemaker, and they’re willing to forgive some past misdoings. I, certainly, was very concerned about those misgivings.”
Host Kristen Welker asked, “We’re out of time, but I just, very quickly, there were a number of controversies swirling around Graham Platner prior to this final allegation of rape — which he denies — past girlfriends alleging he was aggressive toward them, he denied that as well. Of course, this Nazi tattoo, which he says he didn’t know what the implications, what it actually meant. Do you think Democrats and his top supporters and endorsers failed in terms of their judgment and lack of vetting him and lack of seeing that he was a candidate who, by his own admission, could not move forward?”
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