Overview
- In an MSNBC interview, Graham Platner said the New York Times alerted his campaign weeks ago and he covered the chest design within days.
- Jen Psaki pressed him on discrepancies about when he knew the symbol was problematic, citing an anonymous source and a former aide; Platner rejected those claims.
- A SoCal Strategies survey conducted after the tattoo revelation shows Mills leading, reversing a prior University of New Hampshire poll that had Platner well ahead.
- Platner says he got the skull tattoo while drunk in his 20s during military service in Croatia and has since covered it with a new design, as the ADL flags the Totenkopf as a Nazi-associated symbol.
- Parallel reporting details a national network of free and low-cost programs that remove or cover hate tattoos and the vetting challenge of distinguishing real change from concealment.