Yes, I seem to remember his graceful exit taking years.

I mean, just the timeline shows that whoever was putting this together (Politico and NYT) had the main concern of getting Platner to drop out

They didn't care about the story, they didn't investigate anything to find the truth, they didn't even chase ratings.

They just kept dropping bombs a week before he could be forced out.

Doesn't mean he's innocent, if anything it means there needs to be an investigation into all of it. But the only way that would have happened was if Planter stayed in, won, and then had an investigation done himself.

Now that he's dropped no one is going to look into any of it, in a month he won't be in any headlines or mentioned again.

Depending on who replaces him is what may make it a big deal long term.

But the NYT just smacked down a progressive who was vocally against Israel, if it worked once the oligarchs will keep doing it. A senate seat is too important for them to just not try.

Well hate say Told everyone so, but I was against this guy from the jump, and told everyone he was no progressive and all I got was scorn and downvoted. Hate to be right, but now we fucked and Republicans win.

It goes deeper than that because the person who's accusing him stated plainly that he was actually blackout drunk when the incident occurred and that he didn't remember it the next morning.

Though I got to say for me, my doubt about him came several weeks ago when it was revealed that he had a Kik account he had been using up till less than a year ago that he was using to meet women. And if you know anything about Kik, you know that's a very concerning thing. People use that platform are not good people.

What's crazy is everyone acting like he was "forced" to do this.

Dude could have 100% just stayed in the race, no one had the authority to make him drop out.

If he was half the monster the media has been wanting us to believe he is, he definitely would have stayed in the race, and no one could have done anything about it.

He got Franklen'd

Edit:

Chuck Schumer did say he'd cut of DSCC support...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dscc-says-it-will-pull-funding-from-maine-senate-race-if-platner-doesn-t-drop-out/ar-AA27lokf

For those who don't know DSCC is what Schumer and the neoliberals still control after losing the DNC, it's really not that important, but it's wild so many accounts are suddenly showing up on Schumer and Israel's side on this.

Even if they just fell for the propaganda, it's not a good sign for midterms they were fooled so easily, and since it worked it's going to be more prevelent.

Came here to say this. I kept checking to see if this garbage was an opinion piece. I don't care how shitty the guy is; the article reads like it was written by an angsty teen.

Yes but he needed to exit asap and get off the ballot so someone else could have a proper chance. He didn’t. He forgot the enemy is Susan Collins, not the game.

I thought the new guy was already lined up? It maybe that was a different race. Hard to keep it all together.

He appealed to a lot of credulous, and hopeful people. On the one hand, I don't blame them, because people need hope. On the other hand, come the fuck on. Stop believing everything nice that someone says! This dude said all the right things, but his past actions were all red flags. Yes, people can learn and change, but it takes more than words to demonstrate that change.