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Platner Implosion Reveals Utter Hypocrisy of National Democrats · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is verdic with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with
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  Speaker 2: you as well, Senator. We've got a lot to talk about,
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  Speaker 2: including Democrats having no moral compass, in fact, their moral
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  Speaker 2: compass is only polling data. And now they've turned on
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  Speaker 2: Graham Platner because they're afraid he's going to lose, just
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  Speaker 2: like they did with Eric Swalwell in California. Even though
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  Speaker 2: the warning signs were always there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're exactly right, Graham Platner is imploding. This was
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  Speaker 3: the least surprising thing to have ever happened in the
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  Speaker 3: history of the planet Earth. It was predictable, and indeed
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  Speaker 3: not just predictable. It was predicted on this podcast a
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  Speaker 3: month ago. We predicted what is happening was exactly what
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  Speaker 3: would happen. Graham Platner will drop out of the Democrat race.
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  Speaker 3: As you and I are recording it Tuesday night. He
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  Speaker 3: has not yet dropped out, but he will drop out
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  Speaker 3: before July thirteenth. July thirteenth is the deadline for the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats to replace him on the ballot. We predicted that,
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  Speaker 3: as I said a month ago on this pod, is
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  Speaker 3: dropping out because there are now credible allegations that he
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  Speaker 3: sexually assaulted a woman, and this woman apparently can be
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  Speaker 3: believed because she's a left wing Democrat. But that's not
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  Speaker 3: actually why he will drop out. He will drop out
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  Speaker 3: because the Democrats have decided they must get him off
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  Speaker 3: the ballot because, as you noted, he is losing. We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna break down the Graham Platner mess, the steaming pile
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  Speaker 3: of manure that is his campaign, and the mess of
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  Speaker 3: a life that this guy has led. But we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: break down how this Graham Platner fiasco demonstrates the utter
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  Speaker 3: hypocrisy of Democrats. That there is not a Democrat in
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  Speaker 3: the United States Congress, with the lone exception of John Fetterman,
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  Speaker 3: there is not another Democrat who has demonstrated even the
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  Speaker 3: tiniest shred of integrity when it comes to Graham platter
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna go come and we're bringing the receipts. You're right,
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  Speaker 3: it's just like Eric Sway Well and before that, it's
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  Speaker 3: just like Joe Biden. All today's Democrats care about is
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  Speaker 3: winning and anything else they're willing to overlook. But don't
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  Speaker 3: just believe what Ben and I are saying. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: come with the receipts right now.
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  Speaker 2: you and I talked about this predicted a month ago
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  Speaker 2: on this show. It seems that you and I are
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  Speaker 2: really good at understanding politics and how scumbags and the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party are always on an expiration date.
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  Speaker 1: This one, as you mentioned, is the thirteenth.
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  Speaker 2: They've got to get him off the ballot, meaning he's
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  Speaker 2: got to drop out by then or they're stuck with
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  Speaker 2: him on the ballot.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know your prediction.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think the same people that create a Grand
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  Speaker 2: platinirm that are now trying to destroy him are gonna
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  Speaker 2: be able to get him off the ballot by the
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  Speaker 2: thirteenth or do you think he says, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'll drop out the fourteenth just to ticket to all
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  Speaker 2: you guys that are coming after me.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's a Marxist. He'll drop out. He'll drop out
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  Speaker 3: this week. It'll be by the thirteenth. They'll replace him.
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  Speaker 3: And understand, Look for Democrats in Congress, the fact that
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  Speaker 3: the guy had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, that
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  Speaker 3: was not disqualifying. They were happy to support him. And
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  Speaker 3: not just any Nazi tattoo, a totin comp the symbol
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  Speaker 3: of the SS at the death squads in World War Two.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he had tattooed on his chest. Democrats just
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  Speaker 3: fine with that. The fact that he self described himself
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  Speaker 3: as a communist, they had no problem with that at all.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that he described that he would have masturbation
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  Speaker 3: fantasies in porta potties, which is just weird. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, it's just that that's a very
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  Speaker 3: odd dynamic. That didn't scare any of them away. The
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  Speaker 3: fact that he had a prior girlfriend accuse him of
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  Speaker 3: being emotionally verbally abusive, that didn't scare them away. The
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  Speaker 3: fact that he used repeated racist insults attacked African Americans.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats were just fine with that. The fact that he
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  Speaker 3: was a vicious misogynist, no problem with that at all.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that he attacked a decorated combat ve veteran, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and he said he wished that the veteran had died. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats were just hunky dory with that.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And don't forget the anti semitism as well, let's throw
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  Speaker 1: that in there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know that that kind of runs with anyone
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  Speaker 3: that puts a Nazi tattoo on their on their chest,
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  Speaker 3: like the ven diagram. To use a Kamala Harris term
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  Speaker 3: of Nazis and anti Semites, that would be a one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent overlap, and in that all Nazis are anti Semites.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, the fact that he described that
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  Speaker 3: he had a fantasy of raping men who broke into
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  Speaker 3: his house, although he said quote not in a gayway,
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  Speaker 3: just just raping men in the heterosexual way, none of
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  Speaker 3: that was was problematic. And I want to go through
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  Speaker 3: the receipts. All right, Chuck Schumer on June second, I
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  Speaker 3: endorse Graham Platter. This is after almost all of this
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  Speaker 3: stuff had broken. How about Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders quote,
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  Speaker 3: I personally think he is an excellent candidate. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to support him, and I look forward to him becoming
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  Speaker 3: the next senator in the state of Maine. Reuben Gego
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  Speaker 3: goes and campaigns alongside him. Tim Waltz, I'll be in
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  Speaker 3: Portland tomorrow with Graham Plattner to kick off his campaign
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  Speaker 3: to retire Susan Collins. Let's go win this thing that
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  Speaker 3: was in April. Elizabeth Warren all right, this is one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite Elizabeth Warren Boyce. She was all in
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  Speaker 3: understand progressive, powerful advocate for equality. What nonsense. Okay, So
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  Speaker 3: here's what Elizabeth Warren says. Quote He's a combat veteran,
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  Speaker 3: an oyster farmer, and has inspired people with his populist
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  Speaker 3: agenda for a government on the side of working families,
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  Speaker 3: not the billionaires and giant corporations. She also said, quote,
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  Speaker 3: I endorse Graham Plattner because I know he's a fighter
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  Speaker 3: on behalf of working families, and because he doesn't take
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  Speaker 3: any corporate pack money. And we need more people in
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  Speaker 3: Washington who are less about go along to get along
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  Speaker 3: and more about fighting to make the kind of changes
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  Speaker 3: that families need. And I want you to listen to
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  Speaker 3: what Elizabeth Warren said about Platner on April eighteenth. Here,
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  Speaker 3: give a listen.
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  Speaker 5: I am here because Washington needs fighters, and gram Platner
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  Speaker 5: is the fighter we need. You. Bet, I said to myself,
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  Speaker 5: that's my kind of man, because that is a man
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  Speaker 5: who not only has the values, but a man who
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  Speaker 5: believes in accountability. And we need a little accountability coming
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  Speaker 5: out of Washington right now. We need gram Platner to
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  Speaker 5: come in and get rid of the.
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  Speaker 1: Corruption in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: Time for new lawson, get rid of that corruption center
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  Speaker 2: in Washington. I mean, it's just that simple, right You
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  Speaker 2: just say a man's a good man, forget all the
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  Speaker 2: red flags, and you just make sure that no one
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  Speaker 2: ever knows even happen.
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  Speaker 3: That's my kind of man. I want you. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: I want to just play play that again. Listen again
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  Speaker 3: to Elizabeth Warren on Graham Plattner.
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  Speaker 5: That's my kind of man.
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  Speaker 2: I believe her, by the way I believe her as
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  Speaker 2: much as I believe any Democrat right now they love
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  Speaker 2: this guy until they just decided, oh wait, he may
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  Speaker 2: not be able to win.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, every one of those now has
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  Speaker 3: now called on Platner to drop out, So Chuck Schumer. Tonight,
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  Speaker 3: he and Kirsten Gillibrand put out a statement quote, the
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  Speaker 3: allegations reported today are incredibly disturbing. Violence, abuse, and sexual
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  Speaker 3: assault are absolutely unacceptable. The DSCC will not invest in
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  Speaker 3: Maine Senate if Platner remains on the ballot. Bernie Sanders,
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  Speaker 3: I have spoken with Graham Plattner about the best path
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  Speaker 3: forward for Maine in light of these very serious allegations.
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  Speaker 3: I have recommended that he step aside. How about Reuben
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  Speaker 3: Diego quote The allegations against Graham Plattner are troubling and
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  Speaker 3: deeply serious. I am rescinding my endorsement. How about Tim
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  Speaker 3: Waltz quote, the allegations of sexual assault against Graham Plattner
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  Speaker 3: are deeply disturbing. He should drop out and make way
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  Speaker 3: for a candidate that can defeat Susan Collins in November.
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  Speaker 3: How about Elizabeth Warren quote, Now, more than ever, we
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  Speaker 3: need leaders in Washington to reflect our values. There could
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  Speaker 3: be no tolerance for sexual assault. Working families are counting
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  Speaker 3: on Democrats to win the Senate election in Maine, the
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  Speaker 3: unrigular economy and hold Donald Trump accountable. With so much
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  Speaker 3: at stake, best path forward is for Graham Plattner to
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  Speaker 3: step aside as the Democratic nominee and address these serious
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  Speaker 3: allegations outside the Senate race now among other hypocrites. And
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  Speaker 3: I won't necessarily go through all their quotes. Rocanna happy
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  Speaker 3: to stand with Graham Plattner with all these allegations. Chris
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  Speaker 3: van Holland, Well, when he was asked about the Nazi stuff,
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  Speaker 3: the misogynist stuff, the racist stuff, Chris van Holland said, quote,
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  Speaker 3: people should have second chances. Sheldon white House. What did
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  Speaker 3: Sheldon white House say? Hears a quote from Politico. White
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  Speaker 3: House has been among Platner's most constant supporters among lawmakers
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  Speaker 3: in the US Senate, calling the controversial candidate quote wonderfully appealing.
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  Speaker 3: Sheldon white House Nazi, communist, misogynist, racist, oyster farmer, wonderfully appealing.
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  Speaker 3: What else did he say? White House said, quote, He's
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  Speaker 3: off to a really strong start and has a wonderfully
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  Speaker 3: appealing local background and story. Just last month, white House
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  Speaker 3: dismissed a New York Times report quoting women who accused
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  Speaker 3: Platner a quote intimidating and disturbing behavior. White House said,
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  Speaker 3: quote seems like a lot of nothing. I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: only one who had anything to say that seemed unsettling
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  Speaker 3: was a woman who works for right wing political operations. Apparently,
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  Speaker 3: in Democrat worlds, you can sexually harass, you can assault
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  Speaker 3: Republican women, and they don't count as women's Apparently that's
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  Speaker 3: just fine.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, what happened in the Democrats mantra believe
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  Speaker 2: all women. I just wanted when did that get thrown out?
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to Squallwell, and it was always a lie.
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  Speaker 3: It was always a lie. These are the same people
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  Speaker 3: that defended Bill Clinton over and over and over again,
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  Speaker 3: that launched Remember Hillary Clinton launched the smear campaigns on
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  Speaker 3: every woman that came forward with allegations against Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 3: was never true. Zo Ron Mondami, Mondami's several of his
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  Speaker 3: top aides, including his strategist Morris Catz, his press secretary Joecovello,
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  Speaker 3: played leading roles in Platner's campaign. Uh Hassan Piker, All right,
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  Speaker 3: here's what Piker said on June tenth, not very long ago. Quote,
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  Speaker 3: Do I want Graham Plattner to win this race? Effo lutely?
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  Speaker 3: Although he did not abbreviate efan, I do for a
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  Speaker 3: million different reasons. He's great on message. What kind of
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  Speaker 3: lunatic thinks this guy is is great on message? Now?
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  Speaker 3: Where are we today? Every one I've gone through has said, okay,
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  Speaker 3: time to get out, Time to get out, time to
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  Speaker 3: get out. Except let me tell you one knucklehead. Who
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  Speaker 3: do you think is right now? The lone knucklehead who
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  Speaker 3: said he doesn't want Graham platter to drop out.
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  Speaker 2: I would have guessed if I didn't know better, I
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  Speaker 2: would have said Bernie Sanders. But he's even said it now. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we got a serious reservation. YadA, YadA, YadA. So give
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  Speaker 2: me outside that I have no idea, give me, give
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  Speaker 2: me the name.
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  Speaker 3: Stephen King, really Maine. He lives in Maine, left wing radical,
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  Speaker 3: filled with hate. Here's what he put out Tuesday night. Quote,
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  Speaker 3: Graham Platner may drop out. I hope he doesn't. But meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: the abuser in chief just keeps on keeping on. So
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  Speaker 3: Stephen King is the one guy that says, give me
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  Speaker 3: a Nazi communist, racist, misogynist, alleged rapist. And I'm good
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  Speaker 3: with him. Why Because Susan Collins and Stephen King's world
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  Speaker 3: is way too conservative for him.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, I think it's time. You and I haven't
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  Speaker 2: had a verdict bed in a long time. And we
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  Speaker 2: both like Mexican food, so I think we should bet
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  Speaker 2: Mexican food.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw it out there.
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  Speaker 2: I think Graham Plattner is going to be so mad
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  Speaker 2: that this has happened to him that he's not gonna
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  Speaker 2: drop out before the deadline.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you are so buying the enchilados that Margarita is.
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  Speaker 3: I actually feel bad. This is this is like taking
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  Speaker 3: money from a baby.
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  Speaker 2: This is so him though, And all these people got
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  Speaker 2: you to do this, and all of them got you in,
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  Speaker 2: and then they all helped you raise money, and they
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  Speaker 2: all said all these things, and then right before the end,
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  Speaker 2: they're like, we're gonna trash you like Swallwell, I just
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  Speaker 2: think this is maybe I'm wrong. I think a guy
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  Speaker 2: is crazy that crazy enough to have a Nazi tattoo,
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  Speaker 2: is crazy enough to say watch this this on the fourteenth,
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  Speaker 2: the fifteenth, I'll drop out, but not before then.
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  Speaker 3: Look, you don't understand communists.
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  Speaker 1: Right, they give me, give me all right, tell me
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the.
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  Speaker 3: Bat that they take or one of one of the
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  Speaker 3: other rest will buy the other Mexican. And so when
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  Speaker 3: you buy me Mexican, I'm gonna by the way, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not gonna order just an ordinary margarita. I'm gonna say,
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  Speaker 3: give me the toppest shelf you got.
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  Speaker 1: Shelf, top shelf. Yeah, all the way. I believe you're
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  Speaker 1: and the and the largest case though, keep going.
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  Speaker 3: Right, and not just like the ground beef enchiladas. I
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  Speaker 3: want shredded beef. I want what do you mean the case?
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  Speaker 3: So I want real melted cheese. I want good stuff
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  Speaker 3: on that.
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  Speaker 1: But I I.
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  Speaker 2: Cannot wait for this bet anyway, keep going so tell
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  Speaker 2: me why you think there's no way he'll be he'll
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's go back to Swallwell. And we covered this
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  Speaker 3: when when when Swallowell and the scandal broke. Look Swallwell
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  Speaker 3: was one of the leading candidates to be governor in California,
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  Speaker 3: and all the Democrats were happily behind them, and and
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  Speaker 3: from all the reports that came out of his being
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  Speaker 3: a repeated sexual assault abuser, harasser, And I mean it
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  Speaker 3: really was pretty ship aimless conduct that just went on
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  Speaker 3: and on and on. You know, it was so commonplace
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  Speaker 3: that the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Already knew about it. It was talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, not everybody knew about it. I didn't know about it,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't know Swallall. Like I, I don't run
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  Speaker 3: in the circle of House Democrats, so I had no
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  Speaker 3: clue that the guy was a predator. But the people
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  Speaker 3: pallling around with him obviously did. The Democrat staffers obviously did.
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  Speaker 3: You don't behave like Swalwell did without that becoming common
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  Speaker 3: knowledge in the circause he was not hiding it. He
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  Speaker 3: was not at all circumspect. He was open and brazen.
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  Speaker 3: Why because he understood that that the leftist today they
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  Speaker 3: will defend anything, anything, any if it keeps them in power.
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  Speaker 3: What was Swalwell's cardinal offense. It was when he was
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  Speaker 3: splitting the vote and suddenly it looked like the Republicans
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  Speaker 3: had a chance of becoming governor. And I mean they,
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats ruthlessly took him out with no hesitation at all.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go back to your Biden. To be clear, for
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  Speaker 3: every Democrat in Congress knew that Joe Biden was well
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  Speaker 3: into dementia that he was not remotely competent to be
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  Speaker 3: president of the United States his first term, much less
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  Speaker 3: a second term. They knew that he could not be
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  Speaker 3: trusted to have his finger on the button. They knew
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  Speaker 3: that none of our enemies feared him because they knew
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  Speaker 3: that he was a man deep into sinility. And you
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  Speaker 3: know what, they all circled the wagon, and in fact,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they kind of sounded like like you remember
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  Speaker 3: the old movie The Manchurian Candidate. Yeah, well, in The
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  Speaker 3: Manchurian Candidate, all these folks who had brain been brainwashed
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  Speaker 3: all said the same thing about the candidate that was
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  Speaker 3: put forward. They all said, Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest,
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  Speaker 3: most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
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  Speaker 3: They all repeated that word for word. Yeah, that's almost
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  Speaker 3: exactly what every Democrat said about Joe Biden. Joe Biden
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  Speaker 3: is quick, He's on the ball. Oh my goodness, it's
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  Speaker 3: the most incredible encyclopedic memory. He's doing like like nine
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  Speaker 3: digit multiplication in his head. I mean it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: fire shoots out of his fingertips. I mean it there
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: wasn't even a tiny bit of hesitation. Ye, a tiny
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: bit of gosh, this is bad for our country. They
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: didn't care. Yeah, And when did they pull the plug
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: on Biden after the debate when they're like, oh no,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: we can't hide this anymore. Look, they would have been
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: glad to weekend at Bernie's Joe Biden literally have him
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: die in office, put him there and just raise the hand,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: like Weekend at Bernie's when they had the dead men
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: they pretended to alive. The Democrats were fine with that.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: They did not care if the President of the United
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: States was any longer competent. They did not care if
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Eric Swalwell was a sexual predator, and they didn't care
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: if Graham Plattner was a sexual predator. What changed was
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: suddenly they thought there's a real risk of losing. And
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: listen to what zoron Mondami said today about Platner.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Hey, how's it going to sound good?
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: How are you? I wanted to ask, given that you
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: have a sort of a sendent role in the Democratic Party,
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: could you talk about the main Senate race. Do you
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: think that Graham Platner should drop out of the race,
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: and do you have any intention of endorsing any candidates
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: in competitive races outside of New York else I e.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: It or anyone else.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: I believe that it's time for him to drop out
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: of the race. And when it comes to my own endorsements,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: I've made eight endorsements at the state and federal level.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: They've all been right here in New York City. I'm
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: incredibly excited at the fact that they won their races.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: And that's where my focus is for now.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, there it is in his own words, right like,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: that's it, that's it, you know, just just just go
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: along with what everybody else says.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: At the very end, when you got to get rid
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of somebody.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: There, you go, Commedy is gonna come. And look, Mandami's saying,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: look at all the communists I'm electing in New York.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: There'll be time enough to get communists everywhere else. But
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: to be clear, he didn't care that Platner was a racist, misogynist,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Nazi communist. That didn't matter. All that mattered is uh, oh,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: he's gonna lose. So here's what the AP is reporting tonight.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Succession fight is already underway as calls mount for Platner
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: to drop out of Maine Senate race. Democratic nominee Graham
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Plattner hasn't resigned from the main U S Senate race
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: following an allegation of sexual assault, but the succession battle
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: to take his place was already underway Tuesday. The allegation
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: reported Monday prompted a chorus of calls for Plattner to
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: depart the high stakes race against Republican Senator Susan Collins,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: which could decide party control of the Senate. Plattner's longtime backer,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Senator Bernie Sanders, quote recommended that he step aside. Then
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Tuesday evening, The Washington Post reported that an ex girlfriend
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: of Platner had accused him of removing condoms during sex
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: without her consent. Plattner, who has denied all the allegations,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: has been mum on whether he'll step aside, and the
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: main Democratic party charged with creating a process to pick
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: his replacement hasn't publicly announced their plans. On Tuesday night,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: executive director Devon Murphy Anderson released a video saying the
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: party is developing in quote open, inclusive, transparent, and fair process,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: but won't disclose details until Platner withdraws. Plattner's team has
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: repeatedly tried to quote put their thumb on the scale.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: She said, quote we have repeatedly reiterated a grand Platner's
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: team that they will not have no role in determining
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: our next Democratic nominee for the US Senate, nor in
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: determining what this process looks like. An official for the
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Platner campaign responded that it quote has reached out to
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: the party to try and understand what this process would
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: look like and quote, at no point has the campaign
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: tried to put its finger on the scale. The official
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: added that the thousands of main residents who voted for
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: and volunteered for Platner and they should play a role
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: in the decision. So understand, once you're no longer useful
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: to the communists, you will be discarded.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, quickly, by the way.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Quickly, with no hesitation, and and and and let me look,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: folks listening to this, you could be forgiven for being
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: somewhat cynical for saying, oh, come on, both parties, do
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: this and listen. It is true there are candidates for
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: both parties that are less than ideal, that have real,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: real problems. Real false, that's that's true, because you know
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: candidates are human beings, and human beings are are flawed
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: and fallen creatures. But I will say I'd like to
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: draw a contrast between this race and Roy Moore in Alabama.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: So Roy Moore was the Republican nominee for the Senate
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: in Alabama. I did not support Roy Moore in the primary.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Once he was the nominee, I endorsed him. I offered
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: my support because I wanted to win the seat. I
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: wanted the Alabama Senate seat to be held by a Republican.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: After he was the nominee, there were serious, credible allegations
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: of sexual improprieties of Roy Moore with young teenage girls.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: They were multiple, they were serious, they were credible, And
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I actually called Roy Moore and I said, look, I
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: want to hear your response to this. I want you
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: to lay out and convince me this is not true.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: And I will say that conversation was one of the
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: least satisfying conversations I've ever had with the candidate. He
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: did not have any response that I found remotely credible.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: And so what did I do in that race? I
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: explicitly rescinded my endorsement because I said, look, I'm not
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: going to support someone who is sexually assaulting teenage girls.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: That is not And you know what happened. Republicans lost
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: that seat. They elected Doug Jones, a Democrat, to the Senate,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: and by the way, a bunch of Republicans after I
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: did that, followed by withdrawing their support. On the Democrat side,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: you had John Fetterman who was alone in showing real courage.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: And I want you to listen to what John Fetterman
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: said this week about Graham Plattner and about the real
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: fault and culpability for what happened.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I refuse to overlook that, but honestly,
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: I would really call Bertie Sanders to apologize for pushing
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: this kind of predator more than anyone he helped him
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: elect and now apologize to the victims, especially the woman
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: that she claimed that he raped her. So, I don't
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: know why you want to keep pushing these kinds of people.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Maybe he should consider set a few out and stop
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: pushing these kind of communists and people and now people
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: you know like p Hustle.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Now he has been.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Incredibly accused of rape and that's fairly recent too, that
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: was only less than five years ago.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Well, he said that allegations are untrue, but that he's
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: basically reviewing his options.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: He's obviously gonna drop out.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I love that he's obviously gonna drop out. Correct, I
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: think you'll drop out. I just I think the day
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: I hope that I'm right here for so many different reasons,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: but I just think it'd be amazing to watch the
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: guy go, Okay, you guys want to burn me down, Fine,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: you're all going down with me.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Ben I'm looking forward to some damn fine Mexican and
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I will say this. Look, the chances that Bernie Sanders apologizes,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: as John Fetterman called on him to do, I think
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: are zero point zero percent. Bernie's not gonna apologize. Chuck
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Schumer is not going to apologize. Gerry Waltz is not
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: gonna apologize. Elizabeth Warren is definitely not gonna apologize. They
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: are perfectly fine. Sheldon white House is not gonna apologize.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: None of them care. It is all about power. It
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: is all about their ability to be in power, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter that they are. Look, you want to
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: know what the Democrats message from this cycle is. Elizabeth
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Warren put it best.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: That's my kind of man.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: It's It's it's pretty accurate, isn't it. It's I mean,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: it's just that's like my favorite quote from her, besides
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: being Pocahontas.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: And I will say it is a sad expose of
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: the Democrat Party because they're gonna take take take him out.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Platter will be gone, which he should have been gone
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: a long long time ago. He should have been off
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: the ballot. Someone like this should not be uh in
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: the United States Senate. Uh. But but they're doing this.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: The only reason that that they turned on him is
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: because his poll numbers dropped and they believed, uh, oh,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: this guy's gonna lose. Let's dump him overboard and find
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: someone else. And by the way, that someone else if
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: they find another nazi, communist, oyster farmer, racist, misogynist, sexual predator.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: If his poll numbers are decent, they'll stick with him.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: If his poll numbers drop, they'll dump him as well.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Final question on this, what type of candidate do you
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: think the Democrats will go with when they replace him?
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Will they go with another radical because that's there was
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: momentum they feel like for him before all of this,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: or will they find kind of a vanilla Democrat statewide
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: office holder, maybe someone in the past. It's easy to
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: deal with that. There's not any of these types of
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: discoveries that will come out. What do you think the
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Democrats will do?
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: So I don't know. I'll confess I don't know the
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: main Democrat party, so I don't know the decision makers there.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: The most obvious choice would be Janet Mills, the Democrat
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: governor who ran against Platner and lost, although Mills has
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: said publicly that she's not running for Senate. Although that's
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: the kind of statement I am not currently running for
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Senate is not the same thing as I would turn
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: down the nomination. If I were to guess, I would
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: cynically say that's who they pick because they think she
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: would have the best chance of winning. But who knows.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: They might grab some crazy radical off a commune up
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: in the main Woods, and the Democrats don't care. It
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: doesn't have to be anyone with any qualifications. It doesn't
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: have to be anyone. Look, if you're willing to go
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: with a Nazi, communist oyster farmer, you're willing to go
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: with anyone. Their only test is gonna be who do
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: we think can win and if they can get can
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: win plus crazy for them. I think that's a plus.
• 28:33
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