00:00:35.000This isn't really a story about one weird dude in Maine.
00:00:38.000It's a story about a party so high on their own socialist supply, they think they can pour some Momdani magic into any Senate race and just win.
00:00:46.000We'll explore all of it and why this is a warning for Republicans as well.
00:00:57.000So here is the lesson, and it cuts both ways.
00:01:00.000In 2022, a chunk of the Republican Party convinced itself of something that was not true that all you had to do to win was to imitate Donald Trump.
00:01:09.000That Trump wasn't something unique, that he wasn't his own figure.
00:01:12.000You could just kind of take some Trump adjacent magic and pour it into a bunch of weird bottles and then win a bunch of Senate seats.
00:01:18.000So Republicans decided to endorse and then run Herschel Walker, a man who it turns out was genetically related to half the state of Georgia in Georgia, and they lost that Senate seat.
00:01:27.000And they also ran Doug Mastriano, a kind of strange dude, far too extreme for Pennsylvanians in Pennsylvania.
00:01:34.000And they lost another seat by nominating Dr. Oz, who is fine, but he was nominated over Dave McCormick, who ended up actually becoming a senator.0.99
00:01:41.000Republicans ran Carrie Lake for Arizona governor that same year, despite her being a conspiracy theorist with some wild, wild mannerisms.
00:02:00.000Overall, Republicans lost during that election cycle at least four Senate seats and at least one gubernatorial seat they probably should have won because Republicans got high on the Trump supply.
00:02:09.000The lesson is that there is only one Donald Trump.
00:02:15.000The magic isn't some sort of just brand and it's not a platform, it is the candidate because candidate quality matters.
00:02:22.000Now, Democrats don't seem to have learned that lesson at all.
00:02:24.000They watched Zoram Amdani win in New York, a city.
00:02:28.000That has 11 Democrats for every 10 voters.
00:02:31.000And they drew precisely the wrong conclusion.
00:02:34.000They decided that the Democratic Socialist Pixie Ducks was actually the transferable part.
00:02:38.000You just take that stuff and pour it into a bunch of weird bottles, the same way that Republicans did back in 2022.
00:02:45.000And now look at who they are running a guy in Maine with multiple rape allegations and a swastika problem.
00:02:50.000And a guy in Michigan who is so warmed to terrorism, he wouldn't celebrate the death of Ayatollah Khomeini because too many of his supporters liked Ayatollah Khomeini.
00:02:58.000Or a dude in Texas who hates traditional Christians.
00:03:08.000Again, the exact same disease that cost Republicans the Senate in 2022 could, I suppose we can hope, cost Democrats the Senate in 2026.1.00
00:03:17.000Forever and always, when you get high on your own supply, when your ideological silo tells you you can't lose and that candidate quality doesn't matter, you nominate people who then go on to lose.
00:03:27.000Republicans learned it the hard way in 2022, and the Democrats seem like they're about to learn it the hard way in 2026.
00:03:33.000All of which brings us to Graham Plattner.
00:03:37.000He's suspending his Maine Senate campaign after a sexual assault claim.
00:03:40.000Now, as I say, the actual real reason that Democrats decided to abandon Plattner is because he was losing in the polls.0.83
00:03:46.000It turns out that the people of Maine were not desperate for a fake oyster farmer who is a little rapey, allegedly, and also had the Nazi tattoo.
00:03:55.000And those were like his benefits, those were like the good things about him.
00:03:59.000Well, yesterday, he said he intends to exit the race after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2021, causing an insurmountable rupture with his closest allies.
00:04:08.000Platner's fall, according to CNBC, is a seismic shift in the 2026 midterm elections as Democrats try to wrest control of Congress from Republicans and weaken President Trump's grip on power.
00:04:19.000Susan Collins is just sitting over there in the corner laughing and laughing and laughing.
00:04:23.000Members of the main Democratic Party voted on Wednesday night to hold a nominating convention to select a replacement for Graham Platner.
00:04:29.000And apparently, according to state law, the party can replace him on the ballot by July 27th.
00:04:34.000So, again, I think what happened here is he started to lose in the polls, and suddenly all these scandals were taken seriously by Democrats just to get rid of him.
00:04:42.000I mean, think of Joe Biden falling apart during the election cycle and Democrats just supplanting Joe Biden with Kamala Harris.
00:04:49.000Democrats do this actually not all that rarely.
00:04:53.000So, Graham Platner decided that he was going to cut a video from the woods of Maine, yeah, in which he painted himself as the victim.
00:05:01.000It turns out that Graham Platner, sad Fozzie Bear over here, was the victim all along.
00:05:07.000He was the victim all along, Graham Platner.
00:05:09.000Because when you're a Democratic Socialist, you're always the victim, always and forever, no matter what, you are the victim.
00:05:14.000I mean, sure, you're allegedly a little rapey, but you're the victim.
00:05:18.000Here's Graham Platner's dropping out video.
00:05:48.000We were not looking for this experience, we were not looking to get into politics, we had no desire to run for office.
00:06:00.000I just want you to think about what you would do as a regular person in a position where a much larger world, large forces were working against you personally to accuse you of the worst thing that a person could do, and it was not remotely true.
00:06:38.000Listen, running for office is tough for sure.
00:06:40.000And it is true that in today's social media driven landscape, everything about you will come to the fore.
00:06:46.000Every single thing, which is something you have to think about when you decide to run for office.
00:06:50.000The way typically, unfortunately, that people respond to that is they don't run if they have any sense of shame and they only run if they are shameless.0.62
00:06:57.000But here's the thing Graham Platner is totally shameless.
00:07:12.000In other words, office right now does tend to draw people who are somewhat sociopathic because most people don't want to go through this.
00:07:20.000But also, most people, if they did go through this, the stuff uncovered about them might not be a Nazi tattoo and rapey McRape a lot stories.
00:07:30.000Like, I'm sure that if I ran for office, The press would uncover something about me.
00:07:34.000I mean, they might uncover the fact that, you know, I'm really, really bad about locking the doors at night in my house.
00:07:43.000My wife locks all the doors and we have 24 hour security, but I'm not really great about it.
00:07:48.000They might uncover the fact that at certain times I may have been skeptical of particular proposals in our ad copy.
00:08:01.000We all have things about us that if they came out, they would be embarrassing and annoying and all of the rest.
00:08:06.000I just don't think those things are like Nazi tattoos and rape allegations.
00:08:11.000In fact, I feel like most of the people I know, in fact, pretty much everybody I know, would not have an allegation about rape or a Nazi tattoo.
00:08:19.000So I don't think that he's like the biggest victim.
00:09:00.000Now, again, I'm just going to point out here that if he actually thinks this is false, he has a moral obligation to stay in the race and fight it.
00:09:10.000If somebody makes a false rape allegation about you, you have a moral obligation to fight false rape allegations and also not to destroy your candidacy on the shoals of that thing.
00:09:19.000But Nobody believes that all of the weight of all of these allegations is just nonsense.
00:09:27.000Now, listen, you probably don't have an online search history as bad as Graham Platner's because probably no one has an online search history as bad as Graham Platner's.
00:09:38.000But, but also, what you search online really is kind of your business.
00:09:43.000Imagine every Google search you've made over the last year automatically popping up on the Jumbotron at your kid's soccer game.
00:09:48.000Not just the embarrassing ones, like all of them, restaurant searches, travel plans, everything.
00:09:52.000Well, that sounds silly, but the internet provider actually has all that information, even if you're using so-called incognito mode.
00:09:58.000In many countries, they're required to keep logs of your activity.
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00:10:37.000And so Platner, after explaining that he was innocent, he explained why he was suspending the campaign.
00:10:44.000We are suspending campaign operations.
00:11:21.000All he wanted was no genocide, health care.
00:11:25.000And by the way, you should absolutely take lessons on genocide from a dude who has a tattoo of the largest genocidal group in human history.
00:11:38.000All we were asking for was health care, to end the genocide, to use our taxpayer dollars at home to uplift our communities instead of waging war overseas.
00:12:35.000Hilariously, there's a group of independent activists, campaign advisors like Morris Katz, the Silver Spoon Socialist Advisor to Mayor Zorhan Mamdani in New York.
00:12:48.000And they say that they paid a firm to vet Platner.
00:12:52.000Well, you might want to get your money back, guys.
00:13:47.000And the hard left, by the way, continues to try to blame everybody but Graham Platner, Ryan Grimm, who's the head of a pretty terrible site called Drop Site.
00:13:55.000He was out there on Breaking Points with Crystal and Sagar, talking about how really the real victim, of course, is Platner in all of this.
00:14:04.000Jenny Rascott had been, quote, texting Platner about needing her glute massaged.
00:15:31.000But now, Axios is saying, starting with their launch video last August, Platner and his team billed him as an oyster farmer, a title most of the media, including Axios at times, repeated without scrutiny.
00:15:41.000But as early as August, he told the ideologically friendly outlets he makes little money from selling oysters, and it's not how he makes a living.
00:15:47.000Platner and his team pitched him as a working class Mainer who bought his house with veterans' benefits.
00:15:53.000But in reality, his father loaned him $200,000 for the home.
00:15:56.000Platner said last fall he's never been close to money and power.
00:15:59.000He briefly attended the elite prep school Hotchkiss in Connecticut before attending a private school in Maine.
00:16:05.000Now, the Platner campaign is trying to pull potential replacements.
00:16:09.000They're trying to take someone else and shove that person into the slot.
00:16:12.000That would include former Maine State Senate President Troy Jackson and Secretary of State Shanna Bellows.
00:16:23.000They have one poll showing Jackson leading Collins.
00:16:28.000Janet Mills would be trailing Collins by a fair bit.
00:16:33.000Now, again, it'll be interesting to see where this race goes.0.96
00:16:36.000Maybe it's early enough that the Democrats are able to recover, but Susan Collins is a political survivor par excellence.0.96
00:16:42.000And it doesn't help your party when it turns out that you were totally fine for months running a person who appears to be a sexually perverse sociopath.
00:16:51.000It turns out that that may not have been a good look.0.57
00:16:54.000But here's the thing the entire Democratic Party is swiveling into DSA land really, really, really quickly.0.98
00:17:00.000And DSA land is filled with crazy people.0.93
00:17:04.000See, political ideology very often aligns with levels of crazy.0.93
00:17:08.000It's why when you walk into a Libertarian Party convention, it looks like the center ring at a three ring circus.0.94
00:17:15.000It's filled with clowns and hirsute ladies and bizarro world elephants.
00:17:21.000And like the Libertarian Party, like certain ideologies cross over with certain types of humans.0.96
00:17:28.000And so if you welcome the DSA, which is a bunch of revolutionary psychopaths in your party, well, it turns out that you may end up with some revolutionary psychopaths as candidates.
00:17:36.000But coming up, Democrats want to have it both ways, but they keep hiring bad candidates.
00:17:41.000Like, it's not just Graham Platt over in Maine.
00:17:45.000They're hiring bad candidates everywhere, but you can't afford to hire bad candidates.
00:19:50.000It's funny to watch sort of the old school Democrats try to convince themselves that, like Quint in Jaws, they are halfway down the shark and they're maintaining that their legs have not been eaten at this point.
00:20:05.000Representative Jim Himes, another Democrat, he says, you know, don't worry so much about this.0.57
00:20:10.000Zarmamdani isn't going to get his government owned grocery stores or anything like that.
00:21:31.000You got attacked by your rivals for calling yourself a physician.
00:21:34.000Not just a doctor, even though you don't have a valid state medical license in New York or Michigan, which apparently is what you need legally to call yourself a physician.
00:21:43.000Do you wish you'd just stuck to calling yourself a doctor, which you are, to avoid all of this controversy and attacks on your physician status?
00:21:50.000You know, at the end of the day, it's not about whether or not I'm a physician or a doctor.
00:21:54.000The question is, can you see a doctor?
00:22:27.000I'm a jurist doctor, meaning I'm a lawyer.
00:22:30.000But again, lying is of no consequence.
00:22:32.000Also, Abdul Sayyid claiming that he delayed his financial disclosures for reasons that make no sense.
00:22:39.000Haley Stevens has also attacked you and Mike Rogers for being millionaires, who she says conveniently did not file their 2026 personal financial disclosures.
00:22:47.000You sought an extension through August 13th, I believe, which is after the primary.
00:22:53.000Was this to avoid transparency with your voters?
00:22:55.000Why not release them before the election?
00:23:31.000Because if people realize in Michigan that he is one of them, then he might lose.
00:23:34.000Remember, the last Senate race in Michigan was extremely, extremely close.
00:23:39.000Mike Rogers, the Republican, only lost by.
00:23:41.000A fraction of a percentage point in that race.
00:23:46.000Do you define yourself as a socialist, a democratic socialist?
00:23:49.000I don't, and it's largely because I'm a person of faith, and then everyone else has to bring empirics.
00:23:53.000I look for solutions that are purpose-fit to problems.
00:23:56.000I wrote the book on Medicare for All because I wanted to make sure that this was the approach that we could take to guaranteeing everybody health care in America.
00:24:04.000And when it comes to our economy, I'm somebody who read about capitalism.
00:24:08.000And anybody who knows about capitalism knows that the biggest danger to capitalism was never government regulation, it was always monopoly and oligopoly.
00:24:14.000And you think about the options you have in any given market that you have to be a part of, whether it's buying meat at the grocery store or it's deciding to go visit grandma in another state, you got like one or two options.
00:24:25.000And those options can work via algorithms to just start raising rates on you.
00:24:29.000It feels like you're constantly being monetized.
00:24:31.000That's not what capitalism was supposed to be about.
00:24:36.000So he's explaining why he is a Democratic Socialist by saying he's not a Democratic Socialist.
00:24:39.000This is who they're running in Michigan.
00:24:41.000Oh, or they also decided the Democratic Socialist Party of America, which is what the Democratic Party now is, they have also decided it would be a great idea to run a dude who hates Christians in Texas.
00:24:51.000This is a flashback of James Tallarico some years ago talking about children being trans.0.59
00:25:01.000Democrats decided that they needed anti Christian howdy duty over here as their candidate in Texas.
00:25:09.000You saw it in the anti LGBTQ legislation, including the bill that would have denied gender affirming health care to trans children.
00:25:18.000And then, of course, famously, infamously, we saw it last session with the most extreme abortion ban in the country.
00:25:26.000All of these ideologies stem from this.
00:25:31.000This Christo fascism movement, which essentially, like I said, is just using faith to exercise raw political, social, and economic power.
00:26:09.000Roy Cooper in North Carolina is very likely to win that Senate seat that is currently held by Tom Tillis over in North Carolina and flip a seat.
00:26:16.000It is quite possible that in Ohio, Sherrod Brown, who is a longtime senator and is very left wing, but is not kind of a total psychotic, that he may win in Ohio over John Husted.
00:26:27.000Again, that's an uphill battle for him.
00:26:28.000But the Democratic Party has no systematic immunity at all to the insane in their party.
00:26:35.000And this is going to bleed over into 2028.
00:26:37.000So take a look at the Calchee markets right now on 2028 for the Democratic nomination.
00:27:18.000It is worth noting at this point that according to polling from Gallup, roughly two thirds of Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis.
00:27:27.000Okay, that is not just they don't like Benjamin Netanyahu, that is they actually sympathize with Palestinians, meaning a group of people governed by terrorist groups, more than the Israelis.
00:27:43.000You think they're going to nominate John Assoff or Rahm Emanuel?
00:27:46.000And I got to say that as a religious Jew, I find it amusing and annoying at the same time to watch some of these would be Jewish Democratic candidates try desperately to beg, borrow, and steal their way back into the Democratic Party by suggesting that while they are kind of pro Israel, actually the real problem is Bibi Netanyahu.0.67
00:28:22.000The reason it's not happening is because you have a terrorist group, Hamas, that governs one area, and you have another terrorist group, the Palestinian Authority, that governs another area.
00:28:30.000So it's not happening, just on a realistic level.
00:28:33.000But put all of that aside, if Rahm Emanuel, for example, who went over to Tel Aviv just to lecture the Israelis, who have now been undergoing three years of continuous warfare, he went to lecture them on how bad and terrible they are, and if they were just a little nicer, then the Democrats would like them more.0.82
00:28:46.000If he thinks that that is going to buy him any points at all inside the Democratic base, he's out of his mind.0.85
00:28:51.000Maybe it makes some of his friends feel better in LA.0.66
00:28:53.000But it makes no one feel better in the root Democratic Party, who openly now sympathize with the Red Green Alliance, sort of communist Islamist alliance.
00:29:04.000Here's Ron Emanuel trying to buy his way back into the good graces by pretending that it's all about Benjamin Netanyahu rather than for Democrats, the existence of the state of Israel at this point, which it increasingly is.
00:29:15.000The prime minister and his government have led Israel into a dead end.
00:29:20.000For too long, American policy towards Israel.
00:29:23.000Operated under the assumption that the best thing Washington can do for Jerusalem is to blindly, to silently stand behind your government without conditions, without demands, without consequences, even when we disagreed.
00:29:49.000Unconditional support has produced a prime minister who has presumed that his strategic interests.
00:29:57.000Would incur no political costs if he ignored America's concerns about settlements and sparked a regional war.
00:30:04.000He believes that being Sparta sparked a regional war.
00:30:08.000It was Israel that sparked a regional war, not Hamas' invasion.
00:30:10.000Even despite the reality that his own idol, Winston Churchill, once argued that weapons are not sufficient by themselves, we must add to them the power of ideas.0.98
00:30:26.000I can't listen to this schmuck anymore.1.00
00:30:28.000I mean, Rahm Emanuel playing this dumb game, put aside that, like, on a factual level, he's just wrong and stupid.1.00
00:30:33.000And the reality is that it wouldn't matter if it were Gadi Eisenkopf leading the Israeli government right now.1.00
00:30:39.000Gadi Eisenkopf is campaigning against Netanyahu.
00:30:42.000He's campaigning against Netanyahu from his right.
00:30:45.000He's saying that Netanyahu needs to be doing more in Lebanon and more in Iran.
00:30:49.000But put aside the actual facts of the situation.
00:30:51.000You know, Rahm Emanuel suggesting that there's been unconditional support for Israel.
00:30:54.000That's weird because it turns out that, for example, the memorandum of understanding that the Trump administration signed.
00:31:00.000Essentially, tried to box in Israel's freedom of action in both Lebanon and Iran.
00:31:05.000It turns out that Joe Biden was trying to slow walk weapons to Israel in the middle of an existential war and telling Israel not to invade Rafah.
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