The lead strategist for former Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said the campaign made strategic mistakes, weeks after he dropped out of the Maine race due to a rape allegation. Platner suspended his campaign on July 8 following a Politico report in which an ex-girlfriend alleged he raped her. Prior to that allegation, Platner stayed in the race for months, amid a range of scandals. They included sexts he apologized for, saying he had worked it out with his wife; allegations reported by the New York Times that he was physically aggressive with several ex-girlfriends, which he denied; a barrage of controversial Reddit posts from years ago he said were made during struggles with PTSD following combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan; and and a Nazi-linked tattoo, which he claimed to have gotten nearly two decades ago during a drunken spree without knowing its meaning. Ex-girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield has claimed Platner knew the tattoo’s meaning, saying he would “joke about it being a Nazi tattoo” and “call it my Totenkopf.”In an interview with the New York Times’ Ezra Klein released Friday, chief Platner strategist Morris Katz said that, looking back, the Democratic candidate should have suspended his campaign far earlier.