Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner faces renewed scrutiny over newly surfaced Reddit posts, including one responding to a teen's suicide attempt

Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine, is under renewed pressure after The New York Post reported Saturday on an account using his former Reddit handle "P-Hustle" that responded to a 2012 post about a teenage girl who nearly fell from a window after a suicide attempt. The original post, captioned "These students saved her. I have hope," showed classmates pulling the girl back inside. The P-Hustle account responded: "Someone clearly isn't trying hard enough."

The newly surfaced post adds to a pattern of Reddit activity that has drawn scrutiny throughout Platner's campaign against Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins. Previously reported posts, surfaced by outlets including The Washington Post, attributed to Platner include comments calling rural White Americans "racist and stupid," remarks about rape victims taking more "responsibility," praise for a 2014 Hamas combat video, and a post calling all police officers "bastards." In a September 2013 post, the account wrote that "there are times in this world when, for the good of tolerance and humanity, you need to kill a motherf---er."

Republican officials in Maine and national conservative figures responded quickly to the latest report. Maine House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham described Platner as "a person with deep and disturbing psychological issues." Maine Republican Party Executive Director Jason Savage told Fox News Digital the post was "yet another example of abject cruelty." Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said the suicide-attempt response was "the worst" of Platner's posts, questioning how anyone could support the candidate.