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Graham Platner has done a better job of hiding his privileged roots than the Nazi tattoo on his chest \u2014 a move which is by design.<\/p>\n

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The embattled Maine senate candidate is vocal about his disabled war veteran, rugged oyster farmer, \u201cworking class\u201d persona; less about his attendance at an $80,000-a-year boarding school, lawyer father, or major architect grandfather.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because he\u2019s been coached how to present himself, molded to present a specific image and, in a sense, manufactured.<\/p>\n

The truth is he was discovered and coached by a pair of Ivy League-educated radical Democratic Socialists, replicating a playbook they\u2019ve used in Nebraska and Iowa. That revelation could be more damaging than the tattoo, sexting women other than his wife, blasting fellow veterans and admitting to masturbating in a port-a-potty, as it strikes at the heart of Platner\u2019s alleged authenticity.<\/p>\n

And for his champagne socialist handlers, the more scandals that engulf Platner and the more centrist outrage he can stoke, the better as it gets more stories written and drowns out his opponent in November, incumbent Susan Collins.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor all we know, they\u2019re leaking this stuff because they want to get more attention,\u201d a former candidate who hired the same team behind Platner a few years ago told The Post.<\/p>\n

That under-the-radar team are a couple, Yale Law School grad Daniel Moraff and his fianc\u00e9, Leanne Fan, an academic with stints at Harvard and the proudly radical University of California-Berkeley.<\/p>\n

The pair had originally met while working for Bernie Sanders in 2020 (I-Vt.) and are hardcore members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). They have previously been behind candidates Dan Osborn, running for senate in Nebraska, and Summer Lee, a member of the Pennsylvania State House since 2018 and part of the DSA \u2018squad\u2019, alongside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.<\/p>\n

In summer 2025, Moraff and Fan were in Maine scouting for a new candidate. They had settled on Union boss Chris Williams in Bath, but dropped him at the last minute due to \u201ca skeleton in the closet that wasn\u2019t true that we would\u2019ve had to explain,\u201d according to an interview they gave to Politico.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if those skeletons were worse than Platner\u2019s. Williams did not respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Moraff \u2014 who has his own Dark Forest consulting firm \u2014 and Fan had first got wind of Platner through the local DSA network, where he had been active in the local DSA-offshoot group Acadia Action and had been featured in a recent New York Times travel story about oysters in Maine.<\/p>\n

They first entered Ironbound, Platner\u2019s mother\u2019s restaurant, just a few miles from where he lives in Sullivan and made contact. After talking with him, they felt they had their candidate.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaniel looks to work for candidates who are non-conventional, willing to go against the status quo. That\u2019s what he aligns with, the type of folks that don\u2019t live their life with the idea they\u2019re going to run for office one day,\u201d said the ex-candidate, who lost their election and asked not to be named.<\/p>\n

Moraff cut his political chops in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he had moved after an undergraduate degree in engineering at Brown University. He became a prominent leader in the local DSA chapter, which underwent rapid growth after Donald Trump\u2019s first presidential victory in 2016 and advocates for aggressive action. \u00a0<\/p>\n

His efforts fundamentally remade the Democrat party in Pittsburgh, local politico Erin Koper told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DSA now is in every corner of local politics. They have been putting up candidates, getting them elected to county council, city council, state rep seats,\u201d said Koper, who ran for city council as a Republican last year.<\/p>\n

She claimed city council meetings suddenly got flooded with \u201c90 percent\u201d DSA members hounding officials, a process which continues to this day.<\/p>\n

Moraff\u2019s ideas were hatched as early as 2017, when he penned a now-deleted essay in the progressive magazine \u201cIn These Times\u201d titled \u201cWant to Elect Socialists? Run Them in Democratic Primaries\u201d where he argued socialists should run as Democrats rather than as independents or third-party candidates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can adopt a strategy that takes advantage of the low barrier to entry of the Democratic primary, and use those victories to build our own forces \u2014 forces that, once strong enough, could plausibly break from the party. Let\u2019s choose that strategy, and start electing socialists,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Moraff\u2019s first big win happened when he helped get fervently anti-Israel Democratic Rep. Summer Lee elected to the Pennsylvania State House in 2018, serving as her campaign manager. Lee is now a member of the so-called \u201cSquad\u201d of far-left minority women reps.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe local Democratic committee, which typically leaned pretty traditional Democrat, has been taken over by progressive politics. You can\u2019t even be a moderate now, [the DSA] will completely ruin your political career if you\u2019re a traditional Democrat,\u201d Koper added.<\/p>\n

Moraff next foresaw that his movement needed white, working-class men, who were rapidly being lost to Donald Trump and the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

He and Lee traveled to Nebraska, where they claim to have \u201cstumbled\u201d across Navy veteran and former labor union boss Daniel Osborn in his garage.<\/p>\n

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The Boston-based pair put their socialist theories to the test by putting up Osborn \u2014 also a Nebraska National Guardsman and industrial mechanic \u2014 as an independent candidate in the deep red state in 2024, accompanied by a political action committee literally called the \u201cWorking Class Heroes Fund.\u201d<\/p>\n

He narrowly lost out to incumbent Deb Fischer but, still backed by Moraff and Lee, he is running again this November against Sen. Pete Ricketts, with the latest polls showing a neck-and-neck race.<\/p>\n

Osborn\u2019s campaign has been under scrutiny for paying family members, including his wife,<\/p>\n

Megan Osborn, and her consulting companies have more than $278,000. His campaign did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.<\/p>\n

Moraff and Lee also teamed up with Nathan Sage in Iowa, mounting a longshot bid to become the first Democrat since 2008 to win a Senate race in the state.<\/p>\n

In a campaign video about himself, he told viewers he grew up in a trailer, worked as a mechanic and was deployed twice to serve in the Iraq War as a Marine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe economy is rigged, and those in power don\u2019t give a damn,\u201d Sage, who is now executive director of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, said in the video, adding: \u201cThey\u2019re the ones doing it.\u201d Sage dropped out of the race in February. Attempts to reach him by The Post for this article were unreturned.<\/p>\n

When placed in the context of Platner\u2019s rise this playbook sounds familiar. However, unlike the other candidates, the Maine hopeful has dominated national headlines in recent weeks, after scandals started to compound, including revelations he made Reddit posts which downplayed sexual assault, defended US soldiers desecrating Taliban corpses and alluded to familiarity with prostitutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryday people don\u2019t want the perfect candidate these days, right? They want someone who makes mistakes and owns up to them,\u201d said the ex-candidate.<\/p>\n

The revelations seem to be more than Moraff and Lee can handle alone, and the DSA network kicked into gear, with another figure, Morris Katz, stepping up as Platner\u2019s adviser.<\/p>\n

Katz is often cited as one of the main figures behind the rise of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani \u2014 one of the DSA\u2019 s biggest wins in recent times, propelled to office by a stream of videos relatable to Gen Z, which Katz took much of the credit for.<\/p>\n

Aged just 27, Katz appears hardwired for the attention economy and to thrive on the controversies around Planter. He is also linked to the Pennsylvania DSA scene through the Fight agency he works for, which is based in the state and boasts in his bio how he \u201chas never backed away from a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a report published in Maine\u2019s Bangor Daily News, messages show Katz threatening to accuse a former staffer, who left Platner\u2019s campaign over his growing scandals, of spreading \u201cexplicit falsehoods to sabotage the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, Platner\u2019s people went into overdrive after his extramarital messages were exposed, resulting in an awkward video made by his wife, Amy Gertner, bizarrely claiming the messages were a distraction from Platner\u2019s policies. It later emerged that like Orborn\u2019s wife, she is also on the payroll, receiving $30,000 since September of last year as a salaried staffer.<\/p>\n

Katz was also explosive in his response, posting to social media: \u201cIt\u2019s no one\u2019s f\u2014ing business what happened in Graham & Amy\u2019s marriage before he was ever a candidate for office.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess whether Platner will go down as a product of chutzpah or gob smacking incompetence as chatter swirls in Washington circles of\u00a0even bigger\u00a0scandals to drop before November. On Thursday, he had a closed-door meeting with senior Democrats where he pleaded his case to stay in the race.<\/p>\n

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Were it not for his implosion, comparisons could likely be drawn between Platner and the rise of another unconventional Democratic senator, John Fetterman.<\/p>\n

Famed hoodie wearer Fetterman was one of the most talked about success stories of the 2022 election cycle, narrowly beating out celebrity candidate Dr. Memhet Oz (now administrator of the\u00a0Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services).<\/p>\n

Curiously, Fetterman\u2019s campaign was helped by political consultant Rebecca Katz, who is no relation to Morris, but does work alongside him, running the Fight agency.<\/p>\n

However, Fetterman\u2014 who became the senior senator for Pennsylvania in 2025 \u2014 has since parted ways with both the agency and a large swathe of the seemingly ever-radicalizing Democrat party.<\/p>\n

While prominent politicians like Sanders and Chuck Schumer have made excuses for Platner, he pulled no punches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was growing up, if someone had a clear Nazi tattoo on them, you probably could conclude that they\u2019re a Nazi sympathizer,\u201d Fetterman told CNN Thursday, adding \u201cWhat kind of a creeper has been on \u2026 a platform like Kik, and send a dozen explicit kinds of messages and who knows what else?\u201d<\/p>\n

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