Its a very strong denial. You put out a denial that strong and it turns out you did do the thing, your head comes off.
Its unclear to me where things go from here. Graham does have some leverage in that they haven’t filed the papers to drop out quite yet.
It’s not unclear to me where this goes.
The billionaires win again.
There still a few days left in this week.
What I see is that in Platners sign off, they left a poison pill in the process Democrats will have to reckon with. They clearly are making the point that this is completely unfounded, and coming from within the DNC/ Maine Democrats. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. You can believe what it will, but so will Maine Democrats and especially Maine Volunteers associated with the Platner campaign. And this alone also leaves Platner with some leverage.
Like it or not, if Platner doesn’t endorse or support the candidate who follows, they can’t win. Platners Volunteer and base of support is so large, that without basically all of them supporting the new candidate, that candidate can’t win.
It doesn’t matter.
Dems don’t run clean primaries and this will be no different. The only reason Platner had a chance was because his popularity made it rig-proof.
And with that, its not like they didn’t try in multiple ways. I’m more interested in the Platner denial at this point. It was incredibly forceful.
If they can produce concrete evidence that the claims made against them are false, it could flip this whole thing on its head and I could see them easily running as a write-in.
So who’s gonna take the nomination?
Still no proof.
Still only he said she said.
If there’s proof present it and arrest him.
Susan Collins is going to win, and in a few months, people will be comparing her to Biden, McConnell, and Feinstein as her handlers walk her around DC and whisper in her ear how they want her to vote. Democrats will help Collins win by forcing in a corrupt
conservativecentrist that no one in Maine wants to vote for.The centrists and Republicans, along with their billionaire donors, are almost certainly elated. This was never about SA or morality, because we can look all around Washington and see that no one gives a crap about any of that. It was about eliminating a vote against the billionaires and the Epstein Class.
If there’s proof present it and arrest him.
Look I’m still on the side of believing her. I still think the allegations are have all the hall marks of being credible. But hallmarks aren’t direct evidence and nothing thusfar, I think, would stand in a criminal investigation.
But if there are texts, Graham will have the other side of the conversation of those texts. If the allegations are not true, Graham has some real footwork to do to identify and elevate that evidence asap. If it is true, I just can’t imagine a sane or rational person denying it as strongly as Graham did. But the denial tells me more is going on here and there is a requirement to do more than just accept conjecture (which the entirety of the DNC political apparatus has).
