SPRINGTIME FOR PLATNER: Graham Platner Rolls Out Like the Panzers in the Ardennes, and Dems Are Not Happy.

Graham Platner is the rash that won’t go away. He was finally forced out of the Maine Senate race after he was exposed for having a graphic social media history, a Nazi tattoo, domestic abuse claims, and a credible allegation of rape. There’s damaged goods, and then there was whatever Platner was — many echelons above that. He was a disaster.

And is he going away? Oh, no, he’s headlining some local Labor Day rally in Maine, and one local Democrat had a brutal take on the event (via Bangor Daily News) [emphasis mine]:

Democrats expressed confusion and frustration after activists in Hancock County announced a Labor Day rally featuring former U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner with many in the party looking to leave him behind after a rape allegation ended his campaign.

Sources said the announcement caught the campaign of the new nominee, former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, by surprise. The mix-up lands at a pivotal moment for him as he races to build a national operation against five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.

Republicans have spent weeks trying to tie Jackson to Platner even as Jackson has opened a slim lead over Collins in early polling. Any fresh attention on the former nominee threatens to undercut that effort just as national Democrats rally behind him.

“I don’t know what they were thinking,” former Maine Democratic Party Vice Chair Peggy Schaffer said. “He’s not an elected official, not a union member, and he’s an accused rapist.”

The Oystergruppenfuhrer has entered into the Flensburg phase of his political career.