Platner vs. Trump
A top state party official said that Graham Platner’s team had “repeatedly” tried to “put their thumb on the scale,” but he would not influence how the party chose a new Senate candidate.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has faced multiple scandals, including indictments for first-degree felony securities fraud in 2015 and a 2023 impeachment by the Texas House for bribery and abuse of office.
From AI:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: Paxton won the Republican Senate primary and has maintained strong party backing despite a history of scandals, including a 2023 impeachment trial by the Texas House on charges of abuse of office and bribery. He was ultimately acquitted by the state Senate, and his supporters view these allegations as politically motivated attacks by an entrenched establishment.
Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner: Platner lost his backing from top Democrats following a report detailing serious allegations of sexual assault. In response to the bombshell story, Senate leadership and prominent national Democrats actively called for him to step down from the race.
Why the approaches differ:
Party Response to Allegations: Democrats moved swiftly to distance themselves from Platner to avoid damaging a critical and competitive seat in the U.S. Senate.
The Incumbency Factor: In Texas, Paxton successfully galvanized the hard-right and MAGA base, leading national Republicans to rally behind him—and focus their resources on beating his Democratic opponent, James Talarico—even if it caused internal handwringing.
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Authoritarian Republicans show us how immorality, racism, and criminality are not only tolerated, but rewarded.
That's MAGA. And the future of America. Unless 2026 and 2028 cleans house and senate of MAGAts.
It's is truly eye-poppingly insane to read the comments by Trump supporters on this Platner rape accusation. The comments are all about how hypocritical those who endorsed Platner are! I doubt any of his high-profile endorsers knew about this rape allegation, but once they found out, they withdrew their suppot.
When Trump supporters KNEW Trump was a sexual assaulter via the Access Hollywood tape, they voted for him. When Trump supporters knew Trump was an adjudicated sexual assaulter/rapist (judge's word), they voted for him AGAIN!
Therefore, we can confidently, and with evidence, deduce that Trump supporters support and admire sexual assaulters/rapists.
I think I noted elsewhere at PE that while the Dems, as I've said about a million times, are not perfect. But, they seem to not accept, at least now, stuff like what we are hearing about Platner.
Before any of our MAGA fans should even be considered worthy of a response, if they arrive and try and tar the Dems with Platner's record, they should show how they said the same about Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2020.
Because the Dems are the party of expelling Al Franken over a crass photo and the ones calling on Platner, at great risk to the party, to drop out.
There is no equivalency. The MAGA trump party accepts whatever their malignant narcissist buffoon tells them. It's a national cult. Exactly as was the Nazi party in Germany.
The Dems have standards. The Trump GOP none.
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