Brad Todd on Why Dems Dropped Graham Platner: His ‘Cardinal Sin’ Is Bad Polling

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PLATNER: ". If you look back at The New York Times on June the 4th, he said that if someone broke in his house, he would rape them to show them he was dominant. So — we heard he was physically abusive by a corroborated story from a longtime girlfriend. But Democrats in Washington and in Maine just ignored it. Sheldon Whitehouse, the senator from Rhode Island, said, 'Oh, those accusations came from a Republican operator,' so he didn‘t think they were anything to worry about. Graham Platner has been bad all the way from the start, and the only difference was this week is on this weekend came out, polling numbers came out that showed he might be losing to Susan Collins. His cardinal sin to get dumped by the Democratic Party is looking like he might lose. And I think that where this race goes from here, I mean, Maine Democrats are going to pick someone else awful."