Warren says her ‘kind of man’ is left-wing Senate hopeful rocked by Nazi-tattoo, Reddit controversies

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren , D-Mass., long a progressive force in New England, traveled to Maine over the weekend to boost left-wing Senate candidate Graham Platner ahead of the state’s pivotal Democratic primary. "Graham is a combat veteran. He’s an oyster farmer, he is an organizer, and he is the person who is going to beat Susan Collins," said Warren at his campaign rally on Saturday in Portland. At one point during the rally, Warren said Platner was her "kind of man," recalling that she first noticed him in an interview where he argued the system was "rigged" after the 2008 financial crash as no bankers were jailed. Warren is championing Platner as a "fighter" for Maine voters, drawing national attention to the candidate ahead of a showdown with two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who has the backing of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer . A series of controversies, however, trail Platner. MAINE SENATE CANDIDATE CITES COMBAT TRAUMA WHEN CONFRONTED ON 'TERRIBLE' POSTS ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT "Insiders who go along to get along are not going to hose the corruption out of Washington . We need Graham Platner to come in and get the corruption out of Washington," said Warren from the rally. ELIZABETH WARREN ENDORSES NAZI-TATTOOED GRAHAM PLATNER IN HIGH-STAKES MAINE SENATE PRIMARY "There are people who realize that when the system is this broken, when there are this many billionaires who have this much control over our country, it is no longer time to make little change at the margins, it is time for big, structural change," Warren added. Maine’s Democratic primary is June 9, with Platner working to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November's general election. Platner's past controversies have been political fodder for the Mills campaign, including directing voters to his decade-old Reddit posts in which he appeared to place blame on sexual assault victims and defended Hamas military moves, among other messages from the 2013 and 2014 era. Platner also came under fi…