Graham Platner, a candidate vying for the Democratic nomination for the Maine U.S. Senate race, disclosed Tuesday that he has a tattoo associated with Nazis.

Platner says he didn't know about the affiliation when he got the tattoo as an 18-year-old rifleman in the Marines.

The extraordinary disclosure came on the Pod Save America podcast and as Platner's campaign seeks to weather a barrage of potentially damaging revelations about his past that have come since Gov. Janet Mills entered the race.

Platner, a combat veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he was inebriated and on leave in Croatia in 2007 when he and fellow Marines got the tattoo.

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