Platner is Officially OUT

**Hammer** (0:00)
Hammer and Nigel.

**Nigel** (0:01)
You believe these characters?

**Hammer** (0:02)
They're weird of us. I don't know about you, Hammer, I think it's hilarious that all the Democrats, including Bernie Sanders and Pocahontas, that were backing Graham Platner out of Maine, running against Collins for that Senate seat, are now like disappearing into the Ivy, just like Bart Simpson in that meme.

**Nigel** (0:24)
It's Homer Simpson.

**Hammer** (0:25)
I'm sorry, Homer Simpson into the meme. Got that wrong. But I just think it's hilarious that all of the sudden, now Graham Platner, who announced his... Is he officially out of it yet?

**Nigel** (0:39)
Suspending his campaign. So, I mean, technically, he's not filed any paperwork, but in his video last night, he said, well, I'm not getting any donors and I'm not allowed to look at voter information, so I'm out.

**Graham Platner** (0:58)
They are going to take everything away from us.
Those in power who have the ability to do so are using these allegations as an excuse to take away all of the things that we need to run a campaign. We are going to lose our ability to fundraise. We are going to lose our ability to access voter data. We are going to lose all of the things that any campaign needs on the basic level simply to function. Larger organizations, the national level party, the bigger donor networks, they have all committed to spending no money in this race if I'm in it. They would rather see Susan Collins win than have me be the next senator from Maine.

**Nigel** (1:44)
Yeah.

**Hammer** (1:45)
What comes next needs to come from the people had nothing to do with those pesky rape allegations from multiple women, right?

**Nigel** (1:55)
Multiple women, Republicans and Democrats, had nothing to do with your Nazi tattoo. I'm sure it had nothing to do with you talking about treating your body like an amusement park in a Port-O-Let. Like you were the biggest weirdo in a party that idolizes weirdos.
The fantasy about rape of somebody that broke into your house. Like for you to be known as the weirdo on the Democrat ticket, that takes some special talent.

**Hammer** (2:28)
But you know what the Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren, including Bernie Sanders, were the biggest supporters of Platner, only when they realized, oh, well, this guy's not going to win. Did they back away, right?

**Nigel** (2:44)
That's right. It was the Joe Biden treatment.

**Hammer** (2:47)
Oh, sure, yeah.

**Nigel** (2:48)
It was textbook Joe Biden, because now what's going to happen is, you know, the main Democrats are going to have some sort of convention where they're just going to nominate somebody to run.
That's not going to get any votes. There's not going to be any sort of public interaction. They're just going to pick somebody to run. Where have we heard this before? This is exactly what the Democrats did to Joe Biden. They knew he was screwed up in the head. They knew he had lost his fastball a long time ago. But the poll numbers after that debate were so bad, they were like, well, I guess we better make a move now. And they anointed Kamala, which is fresh, considering this is the party that, quote, wants to save democracy.
One, we're not a democracy. And number two, how many times are you just going to appoint somebody without a primary that doesn't have any votes?

**Hammer** (3:44)
It was after that debate that Obama gave the blessing to his minion George Clooney to write that opinion piece. It was either in the New York Times or one of those liberal rags that said, hey, maybe it's time to think about somebody else.

**Nigel** (4:00)
And now all of these same people who were fine with Graham Platner, knowing everything we've known about him for months.

**Hammer** (4:08)
He's my man.

**Nigel** (4:09)
They were fine with him last week, but now they're out. Scott Jennings talked about it last night on CNN.

**Scott Jennings** (4:17)
Democrats like Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and on and on and on and on kept saying that, oh, he's gotten over the rough patch in his life. You know, he's apologized. Ro Khanna, he's on a redemption. He'll bring redemption to our nation.
So they were willing to overlook or believe all of his explanations up until now. The only thing that changed is that he's no longer politically viable. His poll numbers went down to the point where it wasn't politically palatable to say that this redemption tour was going to be good for America anymore. I think you're right. He's never actually taken accountability for any of these things. The Democrats knew, 98% of the things we knew about Graham Platner, we knew before the Democrats voted in the primary in Maine and they still voted for him.