Scott Jennings tears apart Graham Platner’s former defenders: what changed?

Now that Graham Platner is in serious jeopardy, having paused his campaign following credible accusations that he had sexually assault a former girlfriend, it’s worth taking a good hard look at how we got here.  

Platner is a candidate who came out of nowhere, foisted on Maine Democrats by far-left progressive activists who hate the establishment of the Democratic Party. And he was ardently backed by committed leftists like Ro Khanna, Elizabeth Warren, Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur and others. These people have for the most part turned on him now, expect for Uygur, and are calling on him to drop out so that Democrats can pick a different candidate.  

Of course, that’s hardly democratic! The voters already chose the candidate, and they chose Platner, despite being well aware, if not specifically of his sexual assault accusations, of the red flags associated with him. His Nazi tattoo didn’t matter to them. His weird reddit posts. And it didn’t matter to the high-profile Democrats who endorsed and pushed him.  

Over on CNN, Scott Jennings slammed Platner’s former backers, asking what changed?  

Indeed, there were plenty of reasons to think that maybe this Graham Platner character is not the guy for the job. That’s why I predicted weeks ago that there would........

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