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It is truly funny to watch as the mainstream media reports on Graham Platner’s scandals, openly wondering how he made it so far and got so much support from the Democrats.

Does anyone in the media realize the role they played in this story? Where was all of this scrutiny of Platner BEFORE the Maine Democrat primary? It’s a little late to complain about it now.

Maybe if the media had done its job, instead of acting like the public relations arm of the Democrat Party, Platner would not have won the primary and all of this could have been avoided.

Transcript by Jorge Bonilla of NewsBusters:

TONY DOKOUPIL: The Big Question tonight is why did so many in the Democratic Party, the party of Black Lives Matter and Believe Women, continue to see Graham Platner as a future star? Despite scandal after scandal that seemed to undermine those principles and more? Despite his old Reddit comments about, among other things, why Platner thinks black people don’t tip? Despite his chest tattoo with a Nazi history? And despite the accusations of abuse against women? Through all of that and more, Platner downplayed or denied the claims and was defended by the party in some of its biggest voices.

CHRIS Van HOLLEN: I do believe people should have second chances.

CHRIS MURPHY: If this is a character election, the incumbent has a lot to answer for as well.

BERNIE SANDERS: I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that Graham Platner is the next senator from the State of Maine.

DOKOUPIL: So what’s behind all that support for him until now? Could it simply be that he was winning? That he had blown out the sitting governor in the Democratic primary? It sure seemed like the Democrats’ best chance to beat Maine’s Republican Senator Susan Collins. In political circles, the answer, it appears, was yes. Many Democrats knew Platner had character issues. The theory, from Daniel Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Platner from obscurity, and made him into a star, was that the voters wouldn’t care. That they wanted, quote, “real people who have lived real lives.”

DANIEL MORAFF: I think we want people who didn’t run for student council, right? We want people who have not been spending their entire lives planning their ascent to political power.

DOKOUPIL: But after Platner was accused of rape this week, it turned out that theory had its limits. Character does matter. Platner denied the accusation, but for some Democrats, he’d committed the one offense no political party can tolerate. He started to look like a loser.

See the video below:

WATCH: CBS's @tonydokoupil SAVAGES the Democrats' embrace of Graham Platner, despite the many obvious red flags that emerged throughout the campaign. On the nose for sure, but Tony D missed a spot: the media coddled Platner as well. The media hall monitors will rage nonetheless.… pic.twitter.com/452IZIebwY

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 9, 2026

The media failed to vet Graham Platner just like the dumb activists who recruited him.

They always seem to just ‘miss the story’ if the story is going to harm Democrats. Must just be a coincidence, right?

Mike LaChance Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.

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