Graham Platner and the Amoral Center

It’s been a pretty good week for James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, and a pretty bad week for Graham Platner, the probable Democratic Senate nominee in Maine. Talarico got his ideal opponent in Ken Paxton, who won the Republican Senate primary despite being (if I may use a technical term) an epic sleazeball. Platner, meanwhile, got another round of scandal, this time from the revelation that he sexted multiple women during his first two years of marriage, indicating that he will be the epic sleazeball in the Maine Senate contest.

Assuming that Platner remains in the race, that a........

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