00:12:28.540White House said, quote, he's off to a really strong start and has a wonderfully appealing local background and story.
00:12:36.680Just last month, White House dismissed a New York Times report quoting women who accused Plattner of, quote, intimidating and disturbing behavior.
00:12:45.600White House said, quote, seems like a lot of nothing.
00:12:48.980I mean, the only one who had anything to say that seemed unsettling was a woman who works for right-wing political operations.
00:12:56.960Apparently, in Democrat worlds, you can sexually harass, you can assault Republican women, and they don't count as women, so apparently that's just fine.0.70
00:13:06.900By the way, what happened to the Democrats' mantra, believe all women?0.82
00:13:10.060When did that get thrown out when it comes to Squalwell?0.87
00:13:30.780Mondami's several of his top aides, including his strategist, Morris Katz, his press secretary, Joe Covello, played leading roles in in Plattner's campaign.
00:18:15.800And we covered this when Swalwell, when the scandal broke.
00:18:18.780Look, Swalwell was one of the leading candidates to be governor in California, and all the Democrats were happily behind them.0.91
00:18:27.360And from all the reports that came out of his being a repeated sexual assaulter, abuser, harasser,0.90
00:18:34.380and I mean, it really was pretty shameless conduct that just went on and on and on.0.91
00:18:39.280You know, it was so commonplace that the Democrats all knew about it.
00:18:44.000Everybody knew about it. It was talked about in D.C.
00:18:45.680OK, not everybody knew about it. I didn't know about it, but I don't know Swalwell like I don't run in the circle of House Democrats.
00:18:51.880So I had no clue that the guy was a predator. But the people palling around with him obviously did.
00:18:57.780The Democrat staffers obviously did. You don't behave like Swalwell did without that becoming common knowledge in the circus.
00:19:04.900He was not hiding it. He was not at all circumspect. He was open and brazen. Why?
00:19:09.740because he understood that that the leftists today they will defend anything anything yeah
00:19:18.020if it keeps them in power what was swalwell's uh cardinal offense it was when he was splitting
00:19:25.540the vote and suddenly it looked like the republicans had a chance of becoming governor
00:19:29.280and i mean they the democrats ruthlessly took him out with no hesitation at all let's go back to
00:19:35.680joe biden yeah to be clear every democrat in congress knew that joe biden was well into
00:19:43.960dementia that he was not remotely competent to be president of the united states his first term
00:19:49.240much less a second term they knew that that he could not be trusted to have his finger on the
00:19:56.000button they knew that none of our enemies feared him because they knew that he was a man deep into
00:20:01.260senility. And you know what? They all circled the wagon. And in fact, you know, they kind of
00:20:07.180sounded like, you remember the old movie, The Manchurian Candidate? Yeah. Well, The Manchurian
00:20:14.280Candidate, all these folks who had been brainwashed all said the same thing about the candidate that
00:20:19.460was put forward. They all said, Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human
00:20:24.820being I've ever known in my life. They all repeated that word for word. Yeah. That's almost exactly
00:20:31.020what every democrat said about joe biden joe biden is quick he's on the ball oh my goodness
00:20:35.740it's the most incredible encyclopedic memory he's doing he's doing like like nine digit
00:20:40.620multiplication in his head i mean it's like you know fire shoots out of his fingertips i mean it
00:20:45.980there wasn't even a tiny bit of hesitation yeah a tiny bit of gosh this is bad for our country
00:20:56.920They didn't care. Yeah. And when did they pull the plug on Biden after the debate when they're like, oh, no, we can't hide this anymore.
00:21:05.100Look, they would have been glad to weekend at Bernie's Joe Biden, literally have him die in office, put him there and just raise the hand like weekend at Bernie's when they had the dead man they pretended is alive.
00:21:14.180The Democrats were fine with that. They did not care if the president of the United States was any longer competent.
00:21:21.480They did not care if Eric Swalwell was a sexual predator, and they didn't care if Graham Plattner was a sexual predator.0.98
00:21:27.680What changed was suddenly they thought there's a real risk of losing.0.95
00:21:33.080And listen to what Zoran Mondami said today about Plattner.
00:22:24.660And look, Mondami's saying, look at all the communists I'm electing in New York.
00:22:28.360There'll be time enough to get communists everywhere else.0.96
00:22:30.980But to be clear, he didn't care that Plattner was a racist, misogynist Nazi communist.0.95
00:22:38.660That didn't matter. All that mattered is, uh-oh, he's going to lose. So here's what the AP is0.98
00:22:43.900reporting tonight. Succession fight is already underway as calls mount for Plattner to drop out
00:22:49.740of Maine's Senate race. Democratic nominee Graham Plattner hasn't resigned from the Maine U.S.
00:22:55.520Senate race following an allegation of sexual assault, but the succession battle to take his
00:23:00.020place was already underway Tuesday. The allegation reported Monday prompted a chorus of calls for
00:23:06.160Plattner to depart the high-stakes race against Republican Senator Susan Collins, which could
00:23:10.120decide party control of the Senate. Plattner's longtime backer, Senator Bernie Sanders, quote,
00:23:15.760recommended that he step aside. Then, Tuesday evening, the Washington Post reported that an
00:23:21.640ex-girlfriend of Plattner had accused him of removing condoms during sex without her consent.
00:23:27.600Plattner, who has denied all the allegations, has been mum on whether he'll step aside,
00:23:31.920And the main Democratic Party, charged with creating a process to pick his replacement, hasn't publicly announced their plans.
00:23:39.760On Tuesday night, Executive Director Devin Murphy Anderson released a video saying the party is developing an, quote,
00:23:47.040open, inclusive, transparent, and fair process, but won't disclose details until Plattner withdraws.
00:23:54.640Plattner's team has repeatedly tried to, quote, put their thumb on the scale, she said.
00:24:00.940Quote, we have repeatedly reiterated to Graham Plattner's team that they will have no role in determining our next Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, nor in determining what this process looks like.
00:24:13.820An official for the Plattner campaign responded that it, quote, has reached out to the party to try and understand what this process would look like.
00:24:20.800And, quote, at no point has the campaign tried to put its finger on the scale.
00:24:24.920the official added that the thousands of main residents who voted for and volunteered for
00:24:30.040platner and they should play a role in the decision so understand once you're no longer
00:24:38.620useful to the communists yeah you will be discarded yeah quickly by the way quickly with
00:24:46.260no hesitation and and and and let me look folks listening to this you could be forgiven for being
00:24:53.740somewhat cynical for saying, oh, come on, both parties do this. And listen, it is true. There
00:24:59.380are candidates for both parties that are less than ideal, that have real problems, real faults.
00:25:05.620That's true because, you know, candidates are human beings and human beings are flawed and
00:25:09.860fallen creatures. But I will say I'd like to draw a contrast between this race and Roy Moore in
00:25:18.220Alabama. So Roy Moore was the Republican nominee for the Senate in Alabama. Now, I did not support
00:25:25.180Roy Moore in the primary. Once he was the nominee, I endorsed him. I offered my support because I
00:25:31.800wanted to win the seat. I wanted the Alabama Senate seat to be held by a Republican.
00:25:36.720After he was the nominee, there were serious, credible allegations of sexual improprieties
00:25:44.100of Roy Moore with with young teenage girls. They were multiple. They were serious. They were
00:25:50.300credible. And I actually called Roy Moore and I said, look, I want to hear your response to this.
00:25:54.460I want you to lay out and convince me this is not true. And I will say that conversation was
00:26:01.440one of the least satisfying conversations I've ever had with a candidate. He did not have any
00:26:05.660response that I found remotely credible. And so what did I do in that race? I explicitly rescinded
00:26:12.580my endorsement because I said, look, I'm not going to support someone who is sexually assaulting0.57
00:26:19.820teenage girls. That is not. And you know what happened? Republicans lost that seat. They
00:26:24.540elected Doug Jones, a Democrat to the Senate. And by the way, a bunch of Republicans, after I did
00:26:30.680that, followed by withdrawing their support. On the Democrat side, you had John Fetterman,
00:26:36.660who was alone in showing real courage.
00:26:40.820And I want you to listen to what John Fetterman said this week
00:26:44.080about Graham Plattner and about the real fault and culpability for what happened.
00:26:50.340Yeah, I mean, I refuse to overlook that.
00:26:52.560But honestly, I would really call Bernie Sanders to apologize
00:26:58.140for pushing this kind of predator more than anyone he helped him elect