Following a scandal-ridden campaign that culminated with shocking rape allegations this week, Maine Democrat Senate nominee Graham Platner suspended his campaign on Wednesday and announced his intention to drop out of the race.
As the chaos unfolds to decide who will be on the Democrat ticket on November 3, Americans shouldn’t forget how we got here in the first place; namely, that radical socialist politicians, led by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), backed Platner’s insurgent campaign and stood by him despite a mounting pile of evidence that he is totally unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate. They excused his Nazi tattoo, disturbing and violent internet posts, smearing of rural Americans, and alarming behavior on an app commonly used for child exploitation, only pulling their endorsements when it became politically infeasible to continue backing him.
Platner claims that his campaign was about fighting the establishment – and indeed, he did force Maine Governor Janet Mills, who had the backing of establishment figures like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, out of the Democrat primary. But the reality is that his candidacy was only made possible thanks to early backing from high-profile left-wing leaders like Sanders, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, and California Rep. Ro Khanna.
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