Verdict with Ted Cruz - July 07, 2026


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00:01:05.360 And this referee who is a little bit suspect if you check his past.
00:01:13.380 I don't want to say that because I don't like to create controversy, but very suspect.
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00:01:22.320 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:01:26.100 Good Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:01:29.720 And we've got very big breaking news.
00:01:31.580 First up, Graham Plattner is accused of breaking into a woman's house and sexually assaulting her.
00:01:38.220 The campaign has now canceled multiple events.
00:01:41.660 And Democrats are now saying, OK, maybe you should drop out.
00:01:47.180 So why did it take so long? We break down the timeline.
00:01:50.260 It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
00:01:54.220 Story number one.
00:01:55.480 Graham Plattner, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maine,
00:01:59.940 is now facing, yet again, another devastating allegation from a former partner,
00:02:07.000 Jenny Rassico, who told Politico that while she and Plattner had been involved
00:02:11.680 in an on-and-off relationship in 2021,
00:02:15.400 he allegedly entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night while intoxicated.
00:02:21.800 Plattner allegedly forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop.
00:02:26.120 She told Politico, I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me.
00:02:32.120 She explained that, quote, I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, this is no longer my choice.
00:02:40.360 Plattner, of course, has come out, just like he has with all the other allegations against him,
00:02:44.920 denying the allegations and calling it false and politically motivated.
00:02:49.720 But the political fallout has now been immediate and severe.
00:02:54.660 Democrats who were protecting him at all costs are now, well, saying,
00:02:59.600 okay, maybe it's time for him to get out of the race.
00:03:03.020 And that is the story, not just the allegation itself,
00:03:06.140 But the way the Democratic Party handled Graham Plattner until it became politically impossible to keep pretending that this was somehow not a problem.
00:03:16.300 Now, this was not the first red flag, and that's what voters need to remember.
00:03:21.040 Plattner had already faced scrutiny over disturbing past online comments and allegations about his behavior towards women and even a tattoo of the SS.
00:03:30.260 Yes, 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.
00:03:38.500 Yet there's video out there and others who said, oh, he knew exactly what it meant.
00:03:42.680 And even with all of those allegations and problems, what did the Democratic Party do?
00:03:48.680 What did the progressives do?
00:03:50.000 What did the socialists do?
00:03:51.240 What did the communists do?
00:03:52.900 They backed him and rallied behind him and kept giving him funding.
00:03:58.300 They treated every warning sign like a Republican smear campaign instead of actually looking at the facts.
00:04:06.820 Now, after this latest allegation, the same party that protected him is running for the exit.
00:04:13.800 It reminds me a lot of Eric Swalwell in California.
00:04:16.920 When they realized it could cost him the governor's mansion, they decided to turn on the guy they protected at all costs.
00:04:24.140 Representative Ro Khanna has now withdrawn his endorsement and urged Plattner to leave the race.
00:04:30.040 Senator Ruben Gallego, for example, as well as in Citizens United, they both now pulled their support.
00:04:36.920 Main 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.
00:04:46.760 So let's just be honest about what happened here.
00:04:50.040 Democrats did not suddenly discover standards.
00:04:52.940 they discovered liability it's no different than what we saw in california it is no different than
00:04:59.940 we see almost every time a democrat gets in trouble publicly they don't care what you did
00:05:06.720 as long as they feel like they can save you but when they realize maybe you're too big of a
00:05:12.300 liability they'll immediately turn on you and if you don't believe me call eric swalwell when the
00:05:18.680 scandals were politically survivable they will always defend you and when the allegations become
00:05:24.800 politically catastrophic they'll abandon you instantly it is truly the definition of hypocrisy
00:05:32.120 this is not moral clarity is the point i want to make this is simply a political calculation
00:05:38.720 and this is where the hypocrisy is impossible to ignore on a nationwide scale this the same
00:05:45.600 democratic party that lectures america constantly about believing all women accountability character 0.69
00:05:52.380 decency and protecting victims they run campaigns on moral superiority they also say republicans
00:05:59.660 are dangerous unfit and disqualified over allegations or rhetoric or past behavior
00:06:04.760 but when the accused candidate has a d next to his name or her name and it might help them win
00:06:12.200 a Senate seat, suddenly the standards, they disappear. They don't even just become flexible.
00:06:17.820 They just don't care. And then they always say this, well, we're going to let the process play
00:06:23.180 out. Well, suddenly the process played out. And now they say, well, we need to look at the full
00:06:29.680 context of everything. Well, now that we have more of the quote, full context of Graham Plattner,
00:06:36.200 you got to ask yourself this question. Why is it there's such a big double standard,
00:06:40.840 especially in the media when it's a republican they demand resignation before the ink is dry
00:06:46.280 on the headline plattner has been well surrounded by controversy since the day he announced his
00:06:53.300 candidacy and now he is reportedly reassessing his quote-unquote campaign because the democrats
00:06:59.860 have cut off the spigot the money and without money how do you run now again he has denied the
00:07:06.840 allegations and does not immediately exit the race at the moment i'm recording this now there's also
00:07:12.860 something else that's interesting under maine's election rules democrats still have a short
00:07:17.920 window to replace him and that's really what this is about if they can get him out of the race and
00:07:23.540 he withdraws by july the 13th then he's no longer their problem they'll just throw someone else in
00:07:29.980 there it almost reminds me of kamala harris and joe biden and the deadline explains a lot of the
00:07:35.700 panic this is actually organized panic it's not actual so all of a sudden you're going to see the
00:07:42.900 big headlines coming from the media as well NBC Nightly News is going to be talking about this
00:07:48.660 and before they didn't discuss it at all why because this is all about getting rid of a
00:07:55.860 candidate that they believe now is a political liability and may not be able to win and that's
00:08:02.360 why they're doing it before July the 13th. It's not about, well, moral clarity. Now, it also is
00:08:09.800 about the math, and the Senate map is really important. It's also about Susan Collins. It's
00:08:16.200 about Democrats realizing they may have to nominate a candidate with, well, a lot less baggage, and
00:08:21.580 then maybe they would have a chance of beating Susan Collins. Now, remember, this was supposed
00:08:26.380 to be their political populist hero. Plattner was sold by the same people that are destroying him
00:08:32.080 now as a rugged outsider as a veteran as a fake oyster farmer the left-wing fighter who could
00:08:39.780 take on the establishment and to be clear the most progressive democrats embraced him as a
00:08:46.420 movement candidate a socialist a communist but now that movement has a major problem
00:08:51.880 the candidate that they elevated is engulfed in allegations and scandals that even they can't
00:08:58.920 overcome. The most revealing part is how fast the Democrats moved only after the allegations became
00:09:05.260 public and then politically unavoidable. The party did not leave. It only reacted. It did not
00:09:11.440 protect its standards. It protected its strategy until the strategy collapsed. And there's a
00:09:16.380 deadline of the 13th to find that new candidate. That's the double standard voters should see
00:09:22.200 again and again. And why would you vote for a party that does this? One set of rules for
00:09:27.920 Republicans, another set of rules for Democrats. Now, on the set of lectures, by the way, for the
00:09:33.900 country, many Americans should be really angry because Democrats now want credit for demanding
00:09:40.160 Plattner step aside after spending months ignoring the warning signs, brushing off all the scandals,
00:09:46.720 and pretending concerns about him were just right-wing attacks. That's literally what they
00:09:51.940 said. You don't get credit, by the way, for arriving late to the truth, and they knew the
00:09:56.980 truth all along. You don't get credit for accountability only after the political cost
00:10:01.680 becomes too high, because that's not actually accountability at all. And you don't get credit
00:10:06.620 for pretending to be shocked when the concerns were already there. The bottom line is this.
00:10:12.800 The story is bigger than one candidate in Maine. It's really about a Democratic party that claims
00:10:18.160 to own the moral high ground while repeatedly lowering the bar for its own side. It's about
00:10:24.680 the danger of partisan blindness and the media helping these stories disappear until they need
00:10:32.020 them to get rid of their own. That's why this is, well, all about hypocrisy. There's also one other 0.82
00:10:40.160 thing I'll say. If the Democrats were actually being honest right now about their standards,
00:10:45.260 they would come out defending Graham, saying he deserves due process. They would say they're just
00:10:51.040 allegations and deny them. And they would say that Democrats deserve the candidate they chose
00:10:57.380 in Graham Plattner to be their candidate on election day. But they're not doing any of that.
00:11:03.580 Why? Because this is all about politics, not about moral clarity.
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