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And if you nominate lunatics who scare the voters, that can hand the election to your opponents. And I gotta say, I think there's no candidate in the country that better embodies just how … Graham Platner, their [Democratic] nominee for Senate in Maine...has described himself as a communist. … Graham Platner had. And you've heard this because at this point, most people had. Had a Nazi tattoo on his chest. Not just a Nazi tattoo, a Totenkampf. (25:16–26:27)

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Asserts that Graham Platner, a Democratic Senate nominee, self-identifies as a communist.

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