Dems are finally pulling the plug on Graham – Latest News
‘My kinda man!”
That’s how Sen. Elizabeth Warren described Graham Platner during a marketing campaign occasion as she endorsed the US Senate wannabe from Maine.
That’s a badge of disgrace that she, and dozens of different high Democrats, should put on for all time.
Platner was Warren’s variety of man even after Americans came upon about the Nazi image he wore on his chest for close to 20 years.
She stood behind him after it emerged that Platner mentioned ladies involved about rape ought to “take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f–ked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.”
And after we realized he had written “I dig it” subsequent to an online video of Hamas terrorists murdering Israeli troopers.
Lefties pull the plug
Now, months later, Warren — together with Sen. Bernie Sanders and numerous different erstwhile Platner followers — have finally pulled the plug on their help for the progressive wunderkind.
I’ve recognized the identify Graham Platner for years: He’d had a tumultuous relationship with one of my best pals, Lyndsey Fifield, more than a decade in the past. I used to be shocked final summer season when she advised us that he’d be operating for Senate.
That’s when she dropped one other bombshell about him: “He has a Nazi tattoo on his chest,” she mentioned.
Months later, Platner appeared on the “Pod Save America” podcast to wave away the ink’s existence with a cover-up story the “Pod” bros pretended to imagine.
Here’s the newest on the bombshell sexual assault allegations towards lefty Senate candidate Graham Platner:
But now even they’ve modified their tune, after Politico dropped one other ex-girlfriend’s harrowing allegation that Platner as soon as barged into her home and raped her.
“Platner needs to drop out ASAP — these are awful, credible allegations,” “Pod” co-host Jon Favreau wrote on X late Monday.
Tattoo tumult
In a rational world, an precise Nazi tattoo would have meant Platner’s on the spot disqualification by national Democrats.
So ought to Fifield’s account of Platner’s home violence, described final month in a New York Times report that whitewashed allegations from her and a number of other different ex-girlfriends.
But even the particulars that survived the Times’ “catch and kill” story ought to have made Platner ballot-box poison: They painted a image of a man prepared to make use of his bodily energy as a weapon towards ladies.
They didn’t — as a result of the Times took pains to heart Fifield and her conservative political background in its report.
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Now, finally, Democrats have discovered their vibrant pink line.
It wasn’t the many earlier accusations — and it wasn’t even Monday’s documented allegation of rape.
The line was merely this: Platner had begun to drop in the polls.
When it regarded like he might grab a Senate seat away from the Republicans, Democrats have been thrilled to spice up him on their principle-free, vibes-based non-platform.
Now they will’t jettison him fast enough.
But the relaxation of us ought to by no means allow them to overlook it.
Platner’s stain should disgrace all of them — and may keep these craven fiends far, distant from the energy they so desperately search.
Bethany Mandel writes and podcasts at The Mom Wars.
