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Senate candidate's tattoo draws criticism

Los Angeles Times

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October 23, 2025

Graham Platner of Maine says that a new image will cover up symbol tied to Nazis.

- BY KIMBERLEE KRUESI AND PATRICK WHITTLE

Senate candidate's tattoo draws criticism

LIBBY KENNY Sun Journal

DEMOCRATIC Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at a town hall in Lewiston, Maine, last week.

His U.S. Senate campaign under fire, Maine Democrat Graham Platner said Wednesday that a tattoo on his chest has been covered to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol.

The first-time political candidate said he got the skull and crossbones tattoo in 2007, when he was in his 20s and in the Marine Corps. It happened during a night of drinking while he was on leave in Croatia, he said, adding he was unaware until recently that the image has been associated with Nazi police.

Platner, in an Associated Press interview, said that although his campaign initially said he would remove the tattoo, he chose to cover it up with another tattoo due to the limited options where he lives in rural Maine.

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