Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner suggested that if he defeats Susan Collins in the midterms but the Democrats fail to take control of the Senate, he'll be 'arrested.'
Platner, 41, has faced outrage from both sides of the aisle over a Nazi-linked tattoo he claimed he got while drunk, as well as controversial Reddit posts made a decade ago.
He is now the presumptive Democrat nominee after Governor Janet Mills dropped out of the race.
At a town hall Saturday, he said that as part of a minority Democrat party, he would join protests and picket lines and expected to find himself in handcuffs.
'If we don't get the majority and things continue to get worse, I will promise you that I'm going to be arrested as a United States senator,' he said.
The candidate was wearing a sweater that said the words 'neat,' referring to the style of drink with no ice, a common phrase used by anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters.
Platner - who has campaigned on being pro-LGBTQ, Medicare for All and ending foreign wars - promised 'an element of activism' regardless of whether or not Democrats take the Senate, The Midcoast Villager reported.
However, should Democrats pull off an upset and take back the Senate, he plans to bog down Donald Trump by making his entire administration testify before Congress.
Controversial Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has suggested if the Democrats don't win back control of the Senate but he defeats Susan Collins, he'll be 'arrested'
Platner, 41, has faced outrage from both sides of the aisle over a Nazi-linked tattoo he claimed he got while drunk, as well as controversial Reddit posts made a decade ago
'We haul everyone in the White House under subpoena, day in, day out, in front of Senate committees to answer questions about all the lawbreaking they've been doing,' he said.
He also said he would advance what he feels is a 'compelling case' to impeach and remove two Republican members of the Supreme Court.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Platner for comment.
The Democratic Senate hopeful has also come under fire for his Nazi tattoo after it was revealed he had an SS skull and bones inked on his chest while serving in the Marines.
Last year, he was plunged into scandal when a video showed him drunk and shirtless, sporting a 'Totenkopf' on the left side of his chest, a symbol of the Nazis' paramilitary wing.
Platner released a statement last fall sharing that he had covered the tattoo, adding that he wasn't aware it was an SS symbol when he drunkenly visited a tattoo parlor with his Marine Corps buddies in Split, Croatia, in 2007.
'I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that – and to insinuate that I did is disgusting. I already had the tattoo covered with a new design,' the Democratic candidate said.
In a video posted on X, Platner showed off the new tattoo.
Platner is now the presumptive Democrat nominee after Governor Janet Mills dropped out of the race and will face Collins (pictured) in the general
A Graham Platner for Senate campaign sign after a townhall event
'It's a Celtic knot with some imagery around dogs, because my wife Amy and I love dogs,' he said.
He went on to claim that the stories about his Nazi tattoo represent an establishment plot to torpedo his candidacy.
'[My donors] know that this is all nonsense. It is no surprise that these stories dropped within days of DC's chosen candidate getting into this race,' Platner told local station WGME in an interview.
Platner has also come under fire over his Reddit history, in which he asked why 'black people don't tip' and suggested that women who get raped in the Army should be careful about how much they have to drink.
'I made that comment in 2013. I had just come out of the infantry, which was, at the time, all male. I rarely interacted professionally with women in the service,' he told WGME last year.
Prior to the tattoo scandal, Platner was being touted as the Democratic blue-collar answer to MAGA.
Overflow crowds were packing his town halls — 500 in Ellsworth, 200 in Caribou — and a viral social media presence turned him into a national progressive folk hero.
Platner has stormed rural corners of the state long written off by Democrats, railing against 'oligarchy' and corporate greed while urging empathy for working-class voters.
The many fires Platner has had to put out has Senate Republicans licking their chops when he has to face the general election.
'It's a good thing Graham Platner isn't a real oysterman from Maine because he'll no longer be able to live in the state after we thoroughly beat the sh*t out of him,' a spokesman for the GOP Senate caucus's Super PAC said.