Democratic strategist admits campaign knowingly ignored Graham Platner's controversial Reddit posts

What was said

"The firm sent us a thing and it had some of the posts, but it didn't have all of them. I said none of this will or should stop him from becoming a US senator. Part of our thesis here is that people do not want their candidates grown in vats. They want people who are real human beings."

Daniel Moraf, a DSA political strategist who helped create Graham Platner's Senate campaign, admitted on camera that their paid vetting firm discovered some of Platner's controversial Reddit posts before the campaign launched, but they decided to proceed anyway. Moraf defended the decision by arguing voters prefer flawed candidates over perfect ones, even as multiple sexual assault allegations and a Nazi tattoo controversy later forced Platner to suspend his campaign.