Politico dropped a brand new Graham Platner bombshell Monday afternoon that ex-girlfriend Jenny Racicot alleged the Maine Democrat senatorial candidate “compelled her to have intercourse with him almost 5 years in the past regardless of her repeated objections.” MS NOW surprisingly was on it inside half-hour and made clear that, other than one visitor arguing he keep in as a result of Brett Kavanaugh “raped” Christine Blasey Ford, they’ve had sufficient of their now-former darling.
Notably and individually, The New York Occasions spoke to Racicot for a June 4 story, however reportedly refused to incorporate this allegation regardless of Racicot volunteering that info.
However again on MSNOW, their protection started with The Second as host Katy Tur had congressional correspondent Mychael Schnell summarize the Politico piece and remind viewers Platner had every week from Monday to drop out for Maine Democrats to exchange him on the November poll.
“The sentiment that I used to be listening to was..Democrats didn’t see him as the proper candidate, that there have been these considerations about these indiscretions and these — these poor studies. However on the finish of the day, Maine is such an vital pickup alternative for them, and he was their candidate. So, they have been letting it go by the wayside,” she added.
The primary actual signal of hassle on this liberal flagship cable community was The Weeknight co-host and longtime Swamp nepobaby Luke Russert, who mentioned “the one who made the accusations was very conflicted about coming ahead” as a result of she’s a fellow progressive.
Due to that, he argued, “I don’t see how he could be the nominee for senator in Maine for the Democratic Celebration.”
MSNOW host Luke Russert on the Politico article about Graham Platner: “I don’t see how he could be the nominee for senator in Maine for the Democratic Celebration.”
“Effectively, I feel one thing that jumped out to me within the article, which I simply learn, is that the one who made the… pic.twitter.com/BSOMDxgZLg
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026
“I feel what you’ve right here, although, is a pickup alternative is extremely vital in Maine for the social gathering in the event that they need to get management of the Senate…however now’s wanting that it’s considerably worse than what was marketed, and particularly for a celebration that was so intertwined with Me Too, and believing ladies, it appears to be like very hypocritical if there may be not, I feel, an actual examination of him shifting ahead,” he concluded.
New York Occasions columnist Charles Blow went within the different path with a severe, double-dose of whataboutism.
As soon as he deployed customary platitudes that Racicot deserves to say no matter it’s she needs, Blow whined “Democrats and Republicans are enjoying by a totally separate, separate rulebooks [sic]” as a result of “Donald Trump was discovered liable of sexually abusing a lady” and “Christine Blasey Ford gave, I believed, compelling testimony towards Brett Kavanaugh about what she mentioned — she was raped.”
NYT columnist Charles Blow DEFENDS Graham Platner staying within the race after the Politico story alleging sexual assault, arguing the GOP has caught behind Kavanaugh regardless of Blasey Ford’s “compelling testimony” that “she was raped”….
“Effectively, the very first thing I all the time need to say in… pic.twitter.com/LQssxeKB38
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026
Going to Deadline: White Home, fill-in host Antonia Hylton solemnly started with the “deeply disturbing new report, revealed within the final hour about Graham Platner, is shaking up the essential U.S. Senate race in Maine” with a “new bombshell” in Politico.
Hylton’s panel consisted of Schnell in addition to former fellow The Weekend: Prime co-host Ayman Mohyeldin and far-left pundit/columnist Molly Jong-Quick.
Hylton observed Platner’s video denial included verbiage “up to now tense as if he’s about to…droop this marketing campaign” whereas Mohyeldin blasted the Nazi tattoo man as having “a credibility drawback” because the litany of denials have include an “open-ended” tinge to go away open the potential of extra damaging tales.
It is all coordinated. It is all by design.
Hearken to how this MSNOW panel talked about Graham Platner.
*Now* they need him gone pic.twitter.com/JEzZZM5tHA
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026
When you add in Jong-Quick’s admission that “this isn’t a candidate who is prepared for prime time in any stretch of the creativeness,” and he or she’s “baffled that the vetting and the vetting course of for this candidate” failed so spectacularly, you’ve a liberal media able to throw him overboard after months of standing by him.
Inside that bigger clip, nonetheless, have been a collection of vile assaults we have now to deal with.
First, Mohyeldin took intention at Lyndsey Fifield, one other Platner ex-girlfriend who spoke to The New York Occasions, falsely claiming Racicot was the primary ex to have introduced “receipts” or “instructed different individuals about” him and thus has “a lot extra credibility.”
PANTS ON FIRE: MSNOW’s Ayman Moyheldin falsely claims Jenny Racicot’s allegations to Politico about Graham Platner are the primary time an ex-girlfriend of his introduced “receipts” or “instructed different individuals about” him, thus she has “a lot extra credibility” than others.
Reality-check:… pic.twitter.com/UAOq6fcUq8
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026
Reality-check: Pants on hearth. Fifield provided associates, texts, and diaries as properly. The Occasions by no means spoke to her associates.
Hylton additionally set Racicot aside as extra credible as a result of “she’s clearly wrestling with the implications of her coming ahead, of her placing her repute, her personal private story on the market” and “you possibly can inform that is one thing that she’s coping with in actual time and that she cares, it appears, about our democracy.”
However Hylton additionally charged Racicot with extra credibility compared to different exes as a result of, in Fifield’s case, she was “related to right-wing politics.”
MSNOW’s Antonia Hylton rips @LyndseyFifield, arguing she was much less credible than Jenny Racicot as a result of she’s “related to right-wing politics” pic.twitter.com/jcHXqqCDOT
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026
Information flash: Imagine all ladies is likely one of the greatest lies in fashionable politics.
Subsequent, take note of how these leftists are out of the blue aghast Platner lied to them (click on “broaden”):
HYLTON: You already know, Ayman, when Graham Platner was on with our colleague Chris Hayes, he instructed him that nothing else was coming. Chris requested him straight, is there one thing else on the market? Will there be extra allegations? And he mentioned, no. He brushed it off.
MOYHELDIN: That is the disaster that Graham Platner has created by his personal doing, as a result of all through the allegations which have come ahead over the course of his marketing campaign, and there have been a couple of completely different buckets of allegations, whether or not it was the Nazi tattoo, whether or not he knew what it was, the — the earlier allegations of misconduct with ladies, and now the sexual assault allegations, per Politico. Each time there may be an allegation or a query about his conduct, he both says it was due to, as within the case of the tattoos, he was drunk. He didn’t know what he was doing. It’s attributable to psychological challenges that he had or psychological well being challenges that he had. However then he would attempt to shut the chapter by saying there shouldn’t be anything to come back out. As you mentioned, when he had that interview, he mentioned there have been no extra allegations. And for any individual who has had a troubled previous and has acknowledged that he’s had a troubled previous and is a flawed candidate, there have been greater than, you recognize, ample moments for him to come back ahead in full disclosure and say, there have been a number of errors that I’ve made, with as many specifics as you possibly can, in order that the people who find themselves voting for him, the residents and the residents of Maine, are conscious of what these allegations are. Now, does that imply he has to come back ahead and identify each single particular person? No, that’s — that’s not the case. However there’s all the time this sense when Graham Platner got here ahead to defend himself, that his apologies whereas he tried to undertaking them as being honest, all the time stored the door open, that there nonetheless could also be extra allegations, and sooner or later it’s important to surprise, when is it up? You already know, sufficient is sufficient by way of all of those issues which are — maintain — which are being, you recognize, coming ahead on account of the reporting[.]
Hylton and Mohyeldin truly had the gall to argue viewers ought to really feel dangerous for the Democrats who “have staked their repute by standing alongside Graham Platner, individuals who have endorsed him and have stood by him” in addition to major voters “who so lots of them have been crying out, wanting change, determined for a youthful particular person to signify them within the Senate, somebody with new concepts to carry to the desk.”
MSNOW needs you to really feel dangerous for the Democrats who endorsed, campaigned with, and stood beside Graham Platner and Maine Democratic major voters “who so lots of them have been crying out, wanting change, determined for a youthful particular person to signify them within the Senate, somebody with… pic.twitter.com/1XxAgWCCww
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026
As soon as Schnell additional defined the method the Maine Democratic Celebration would use to exchange Platner if he did give up, Mohyeldin gave his ultimate ideas by arguing “you may make a compelling argument that it’s important to attempt to discover any individual throughout the Democratic institution in Maine that represents closest to Graham Platner viewpoints” as an alternative of who completed second within the major, Governor Janet Mills.
As for Hylton, the supposed journalist agreed as a result of “Mills does have these severe, you recognize, vulnerabilities, each as a result of voters have been involved about her age,” had “completely different conflicts with Native American communities,” and “actually didn’t journey the state to the extent that Graham Platner did.”
In different phrases, Platner higher get replaced by a fellow socialist…or else!
To see the related MSNOW transcripts from July 6, click on right here (for The Second) and right here (for Deadline: White Home).
