graham platner is not going to be a senator. whether it happens now or if he just gets annihilated by the GQP oppo machine in the general, it is going to happen. why are so many high profile dems willing to risk so much capital for this loser?
CNN: Will you endorse Graham Platner's campaign?
MARKEY: “I am convinced that he is running on all of the right issues…”
CNN: “So why not say that you endorse him?”
MARKEY: “He is on a pathway to victory…”
Embarrassing
I've known Lyndsey a long time and we all would hang out at Tune when she and Graham were dating. As her friend, I was never comfortable with that relationship because of how unhinged he was. And she told me he had an SS tattoo long before it became public. Her word is solid.
I like the idea that he was, by his own admission, on a drunken PTSD-exacerbated blacking-out bender for much of his adulthood, but can definitively say this. Interesting.
Every prog who dismisses the Platner story in the Times believed that insane dog-raping-prisoners story. You start to get the sense some of them like Platner *because* of the Nazi tat.
2018. This is the kind of rage Democrats expressed over the uncorroborated allegations against Kavanaugh by Blasey Ford.
Elizabeth Warren has endorsed Platner.
What now, Liz?
Eric Swalwelll spent over a decade building relationships, serving in government, etc and his entire campaign burned down in about 48 hours. Everyone abandoned him
Platner is just some random dude with a Nazi tattoo lying for disability checks and so Dems are MAGA levels loyal?
Even if voters wanted regressive-left socialist candidates (turns out they didn’t), hedge fund billionaire Steyer trying to cosplay one was implausible at best and incredibly cringey at worst.
Genuinely curious who advised his strategy and comms.