As Graham Platner Is on the Edge of Farwell Do Not

We have to admit; we’re going to miss Graham Platner. While he’s not technically out of the race for the Senate just yet, issues are all but forged in stone. At this level, his electability is merely the physique being sustained until all the organs could be apportioned appropriately. The mad mob rush of Democrats to flee from his mushroom cloud prospects rivals fathers at a toy store opening on Christmas Eve. 

What’s amusing in all of this is how this very plot was called properly forward of time. It was back in May when I urged that we’d see Platner win the main, then deeply troubling news would break. He can be pressured out by the celebration, and we’d watch as scrambling then takes place to have another person inserted on the ticket before the deadline later this month. That very situation seems to be taking part in out.

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I deliver this up not to say I’m a political savant. Hardly. But it’s said to show how deeply apparent it was that this man was an untenable entity for the celebration that tried to slip in a no one who would flip a Senate seat blue and serve as an obedient examine box for the Democrats. 

Once he grew to become an indefensible catastrophe, then Plan-D had to be employed. [PLAN-A: Run Janet Mills against Susan Collins / PLAN-B: Replace the unelectable Mills with a controllable mannequin candidate / PLAN-C: Try gaslighting the public that Platner’s issues were not a problem / PLAN-D: Find ANYONE ELSE who might earn Democrat votes.]

How do you not take pleasure in a man who continues to rack up the disqualifying particulars? Platner’s marketing campaign resembles the rubbish can in a frat home that no one is prepared to empty; instead, the rubbish stacks up over the rim like a Jenga pile of offal until the inevitable collapse.

This was all a self-created drawback by the Democrat elites. Platner was solely a prefab candidate. He had zero political expertise, little in the approach of local traction, and no real local historical past to inspire the gentry. The celebration crafted a bio for the man that the press performed along with, which was the inverse of the Kamala Harris fabrication. In her case, the resume was about negation (“She was never appointed border czar,” “She was not a major player in the Afghanistan withdrawal,” “Kamala is the candidate of change, even as she is the current workplace holder,” etc.), but with Platner, they needed to build an entirely new character. 

This was the initial appeal; Platner was seen as a whiteboard upon which they could craft any resume that they desired – and conveniently erase problematic details. Thus, he became a hardscrabble blue-collar oyster farmer, a self-made man of the people. But in this desire to fabricate his backstory, they did not look into his actual past. As a result, they promoted an ill-tempered mook with few social skills and operating with trust-fund support while displaying few skills beyond an ability to read a script at news conferences.

Then he devolved before their eyes, and for the better part of the past year we have been delivered a steady stream of excuse-making and recalibration. 

Look, we KNOW the Democrats will back anybody and say something in their perpetual opposition to President Trump. Defeating him and buying energy are the traits they wake up with every day. However, it has been with sheer amusement that we watched the press fully compromise their integrity to excuse any of the major issues Der Oysterfuhrer introduced ahead. 

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• Nazi tattoos are an acceptable mistake somebody can have…for almost 20 years. 
• Praising Hamas in a terror assault was not supporting their trigger, just an appreciation of the navy techniques employed. 
• A GOP consultant was commanded to step down because of one thing a DJ said on the air, all while excuses had been supplied when Platner sat in on a supremacist’s podcast. 

These, and many other contortions of requirements performed out in the media. Today the contortions continue, as those who strove to promote this practice going off the trestle of a candidate now have to extract themselves from the wreckage.

At The Bulwark, they’ve the Herculean job of making an attempt to absolve themselves of the months spent selling the man for the Senate who would fail an interview as a Wal-Mart door greeter. 

.@SarahLongwell25 calls for Graham Platner to drop out: “I want to win. I want Democrats to win the Senate and to win the House…Platner is in an incredibly weak position to do that now, and I think as a moral matter, when someone is accused of rape, that’s game over.” pic.twitter.com/05kI3O3O53

— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOn-line) July 7, 2026

That can be a close to impossibility. Two months in the past, Longwell was explaining the need to keep Platner on the ticket. Andrew Eggers noticed match to wave away a death camp tattoo worn for 20 years. Tim Miller said Platner was the instrument Democrats needed to win back the working class. The best, however, was when J.V. Last was promoting the idea of Platner rising to the top of the Democrats – FOR PRESIDENT IN 2028! 

Today, fittingly for the crew with a schooner on its masthead, they’ve all develop into rodents making a swan dive into the drink, as the Bad Ship Platner has hit a reef. (For roughly the seventh time.) 

GWN was in Maine lately and only discovered fawning voters, as today they’ve to eat crow omelettes about Platner being pressured closely.

For some real amusement, there may be Obama Bro Jon Favreau. He was not only a prepared source to rehab Platner when his Nazi ink was revealed, but he went on later to tout the man’s character as sterling and above reproach. This morning, he’s attempting to sound full of character as he tosses Platner over the proverbial transom.

Behold as another one of Platner’s passionate defenders makes an attempt to place himself as a stern voice today by calling for his dismissal.@JonFavs tries to faux he was not gaslighting the public as laborious as anybody that Platner was a ethical titan and denying Nazi connotations. pic.twitter.com/nlzOiK99Lv

— Brad Slager: GWN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) July 7, 2026

Best, however, is on “Morning Joe,” where they grilled Adam Wren, from Politico, over the accuracy of his story that appears to have damaged the help system for Platner. They are incapable of accepting the apparent, and instead it’s time to shoot the messenger.

Morning Joe spends 5 minutes grilling Politico’s @adamwren for working a story on Platner’s ex accusing him of rape.

“Given the very high requirements Politico has before they write one thing like this and publish it, what points of this story introduced it to the degree of… pic.twitter.com/JgLW17ZF4y

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 7, 2026

This is what the media have rendered themselves into as a end result. The blatantly partisan need to see a Democrat take a place in the Senate meant that compromising themselves was a worthwhile endeavor. Do not allow them to overlook what they had been selling, and as a end result, admit what they stand for. 

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