Two peas in a pod, as they say.

In one corner, U.S. Senate Democrat candidate Graham Platner, who once said some women invite rape.

In the same corner, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, who once publicly fantasized about rape.

Platner invited Sanders on Sunday to headline a political rally for him in Bangor.

“On our way to Bangor, Maine for a rally with @grahamformaine,” Bernie posted on X with a picture of him standing on the side of the road in New Hampshire entering Gilead, Maine in Oxford County.

“The crises facing our country are too serious for establishment politics and tinkering around the edges,” Bernie added. “We need candidates like Graham who will take on the greed of the oligarchs and deliver for working families.”

Besides their claims to progressive political policies, Platner and Sanders share a dark past.

With Sanders, it was an explosively misogynistic essay he wrote in the 1970s that came to light during his 2016 run for the presidency.

Titled “Man-and-Woman,” the essay written for a radical Vermont newspaper included graphic sentences about rape fantasies.

“A woman enjoys intercourse with her man – as she fantasizes about being raped by three men simultaneously,” it read.

Sanders pooh-poohed the piece when it surfaced in 2015 as “intended to attack gender stereotypes back in the 1970s, though it is as stupid today as it was back then.”

Whatever that was supposed to mean.

In any event, Bernie Sanders never became president.

Enter Graham Platner, who himself knows perhaps all too well about history of past creative personal juices flowing freely.

Amid his current Senate campaign a 2013 Reddit post came to light quoting Platner criticizing women who drink excessively for winding up “having sex with someone they don’t mean to.”

Platner has tried to apologize for the comments, attributing them to untreated PTSD and dark humor following his military service.

Janet Mills, who when she was running against Platner earlier this year tried to make political hay of his rape crack did so to no avail.

The two-term-limited governor later claimed she didn’t have enough funding to support continuing a campaign to take on five-term GOP U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in the fall.

Platner, now the leading Democrat in a two-person primary race with David Costello, has seemingly maintained a strong following among a key demographic – older women, despite his belittling the female gender.

So maybe he can do what Bernie failed to do – turn rape into a political asset.