Graham Plattner, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maine, is now facing, yet AGAIN, another devastating allegation from his former partner, Jenny Rassico. She told Politico that while she and the Democratic candidate were in an on-and-off relationship in 2021, he allegedly entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night while intoxicated and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop.
00:01:55.480Graham Plattner, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maine,
00:01:59.940is now facing, yet again, another devastating allegation from a former partner,
00:02:07.000Jenny Rassico, who told Politico that while she and Plattner had been involved
00:02:11.680in an on-and-off relationship in 2021,
00:02:15.400he allegedly entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night while intoxicated.
00:02:21.800Plattner allegedly forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop.
00:02:26.120She told Politico, I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me.
00:02:32.120She explained that, quote, I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, this is no longer my choice.
00:02:40.360Plattner, of course, has come out, just like he has with all the other allegations against him,
00:02:44.920denying the allegations and calling it false and politically motivated.
00:02:49.720But the political fallout has now been immediate and severe.
00:02:54.660Democrats who were protecting him at all costs are now, well, saying,
00:02:59.600okay, maybe it's time for him to get out of the race.
00:03:03.020And that is the story, not just the allegation itself,
00:03:06.140But the way the Democratic Party handled Graham Plattner until it became politically impossible to keep pretending that this was somehow not a problem.
00:03:16.300Now, this was not the first red flag, and that's what voters need to remember.
00:03:21.040Plattner had already faced scrutiny over disturbing past online comments and allegations about his behavior towards women and even a tattoo of the SS.
00:03:30.260Yes, yes, the Nazi tattoo on his chest, which, of course, he said he did not understand at the time and later then covered it up.
00:03:38.500Yet there's video out there and others who said, oh, he knew exactly what it meant.
00:03:42.680And even with all of those allegations and problems, what did the Democratic Party do?
00:03:52.900They backed him and rallied behind him and kept giving him funding.
00:03:58.300They treated every warning sign like a Republican smear campaign instead of actually looking at the facts.
00:04:06.820Now, after this latest allegation, the same party that protected him is running for the exit.
00:04:13.800It reminds me a lot of Eric Swalwell in California.
00:04:16.920When they realized it could cost him the governor's mansion, they decided to turn on the guy they protected at all costs.
00:04:24.140Representative Ro Khanna has now withdrawn his endorsement and urged Plattner to leave the race.
00:04:30.040Senator Ruben Gallego, for example, as well as in Citizens United, they both now pulled their support.
00:04:36.920Main Democratic leaders are also calling on him to withdraw, saying the party needs to move on and focus on defeating the Republican Senator Susan Collins.
00:04:46.760So let's just be honest about what happened here.
00:04:50.040Democrats did not suddenly discover standards.
00:04:52.940they discovered liability it's no different than what we saw in california it is no different than
00:04:59.940we see almost every time a democrat gets in trouble publicly they don't care what you did
00:05:06.720as long as they feel like they can save you but when they realize maybe you're too big of a
00:05:12.300liability they'll immediately turn on you and if you don't believe me call eric swalwell when the
00:05:18.680scandals were politically survivable they will always defend you and when the allegations become
00:05:24.800politically catastrophic they'll abandon you instantly it is truly the definition of hypocrisy
00:05:32.120this is not moral clarity is the point i want to make this is simply a political calculation
00:05:38.720and this is where the hypocrisy is impossible to ignore on a nationwide scale this the same
00:05:45.600democratic party that lectures america constantly about believing all women accountability character0.69
00:05:52.380decency and protecting victims they run campaigns on moral superiority they also say republicans
00:05:59.660are dangerous unfit and disqualified over allegations or rhetoric or past behavior
00:06:04.760but when the accused candidate has a d next to his name or her name and it might help them win
00:06:12.200a Senate seat, suddenly the standards, they disappear. They don't even just become flexible.
00:06:17.820They just don't care. And then they always say this, well, we're going to let the process play
00:06:23.180out. Well, suddenly the process played out. And now they say, well, we need to look at the full
00:06:29.680context of everything. Well, now that we have more of the quote, full context of Graham Plattner,
00:06:36.200you got to ask yourself this question. Why is it there's such a big double standard,
00:06:40.840especially in the media when it's a republican they demand resignation before the ink is dry
00:06:46.280on the headline plattner has been well surrounded by controversy since the day he announced his
00:06:53.300candidacy and now he is reportedly reassessing his quote-unquote campaign because the democrats
00:06:59.860have cut off the spigot the money and without money how do you run now again he has denied the
00:07:06.840allegations and does not immediately exit the race at the moment i'm recording this now there's also
00:07:12.860something else that's interesting under maine's election rules democrats still have a short
00:07:17.920window to replace him and that's really what this is about if they can get him out of the race and
00:07:23.540he withdraws by july the 13th then he's no longer their problem they'll just throw someone else in
00:07:29.980there it almost reminds me of kamala harris and joe biden and the deadline explains a lot of the
00:07:35.700panic this is actually organized panic it's not actual so all of a sudden you're going to see the
00:07:42.900big headlines coming from the media as well NBC Nightly News is going to be talking about this
00:07:48.660and before they didn't discuss it at all why because this is all about getting rid of a
00:07:55.860candidate that they believe now is a political liability and may not be able to win and that's
00:08:02.360why they're doing it before July the 13th. It's not about, well, moral clarity. Now, it also is
00:08:09.800about the math, and the Senate map is really important. It's also about Susan Collins. It's
00:08:16.200about Democrats realizing they may have to nominate a candidate with, well, a lot less baggage, and
00:08:21.580then maybe they would have a chance of beating Susan Collins. Now, remember, this was supposed
00:08:26.380to be their political populist hero. Plattner was sold by the same people that are destroying him
00:08:32.080now as a rugged outsider as a veteran as a fake oyster farmer the left-wing fighter who could
00:08:39.780take on the establishment and to be clear the most progressive democrats embraced him as a
00:08:46.420movement candidate a socialist a communist but now that movement has a major problem
00:08:51.880the candidate that they elevated is engulfed in allegations and scandals that even they can't
00:08:58.920overcome. The most revealing part is how fast the Democrats moved only after the allegations became
00:09:05.260public and then politically unavoidable. The party did not leave. It only reacted. It did not
00:09:11.440protect its standards. It protected its strategy until the strategy collapsed. And there's a
00:09:16.380deadline of the 13th to find that new candidate. That's the double standard voters should see
00:09:22.200again and again. And why would you vote for a party that does this? One set of rules for
00:09:27.920Republicans, another set of rules for Democrats. Now, on the set of lectures, by the way, for the
00:09:33.900country, many Americans should be really angry because Democrats now want credit for demanding
00:09:40.160Plattner step aside after spending months ignoring the warning signs, brushing off all the scandals,
00:09:46.720and pretending concerns about him were just right-wing attacks. That's literally what they
00:09:51.940said. You don't get credit, by the way, for arriving late to the truth, and they knew the
00:09:56.980truth all along. You don't get credit for accountability only after the political cost
00:10:01.680becomes too high, because that's not actually accountability at all. And you don't get credit
00:10:06.620for pretending to be shocked when the concerns were already there. The bottom line is this.
00:10:12.800The story is bigger than one candidate in Maine. It's really about a Democratic party that claims
00:10:18.160to own the moral high ground while repeatedly lowering the bar for its own side. It's about
00:10:24.680the danger of partisan blindness and the media helping these stories disappear until they need
00:10:32.020them to get rid of their own. That's why this is, well, all about hypocrisy. There's also one other0.82
00:10:40.160thing I'll say. If the Democrats were actually being honest right now about their standards,
00:10:45.260they would come out defending Graham, saying he deserves due process. They would say they're just
00:10:51.040allegations and deny them. And they would say that Democrats deserve the candidate they chose
00:10:57.380in Graham Plattner to be their candidate on election day. But they're not doing any of that.
00:11:03.580Why? Because this is all about politics, not about moral clarity.