{"id":2627354,"date":"2026-07-09T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-defending-murder-fantasies-and-9-11-apologists-dems-only-dumped-platner-because-he-was-going-to-lose\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:40:47","slug":"after-defending-murder-fantasies-and-9-11-apologists-dems-only-dumped-platner-because-he-was-going-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-defending-murder-fantasies-and-9-11-apologists-dems-only-dumped-platner-because-he-was-going-to-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Only Ditched Platner Because He Was Going To Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-defending-murder-fantasies-and-9-11-apologists-dems-only-dumped-platner-because-he-was-going-to-lose%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2627354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/instead-of-debates-with-rigged-moderators-trump-should-challenge-biden-to-lincoln-douglas-contests\/\" title=\"Instead of engaging in debates with biased moderators, Trump could propose Lincoln-Douglas contests to challenge Biden directly\">article criticizes<\/a> the Democratic Party for their inconsistent stance on candidate misconduct.It highlights how Graham Platner was pressured to step down only after a second serious allegation, despite having all <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >prior allegations public<\/a> and his winning the primary comfortably with notable support from prominent Democrats. The piece argues that Democrats selectively accept problematic candidates if it doesn&#8217;t threaten their electoral prospects, citing examples like Jay Jones, Adam Hamaway, Melat Kiros, Aber Kawas, and Darializa avila Chevalier, whose controversial remarks and associations they have overlooked or endorsed. the article suggests that Democrats&#8217; apparent standards are vrey low and that their recent actions reveal a willingness to tolerate candidates with disqualifying behaviors as long as politically beneficial.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Maine Democrat Party successfully pressured Graham Platner to step down. Not because of his Nazi tattoo or his alleged physical abuse of a former (Republican) girlfriend. It\u2019s not even because he mocked a teenager\u2019s failed suicide attempt. Heck, it\u2019s not even because he suggested women who don\u2019t want to be raped should \u201ctake some responsibility for themselves\u201d and not get too drunk.<\/p>\n<p>It was only after a second ex-girlfriend (this one left-wing) came forward to allege a break-in and rape that Democrats suddenly decided he was not fit to represent their party.<\/p>\n<p>The ousting says less about Platner, however, and more about Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>Platner won the Democrat primary with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/09\/graham-platner-maine-senate-primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">72 percent<\/a> of the vote despite the mounting controversies. Democrats like <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5957071-bernie-sanders-graham-platner-maine-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bernie Sanders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/democrats-begin-pulling-platner-endorsements-after-maine-senate-candidate-faces-sexual-assault-allegation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elizabeth Warren, Ro Khanna<\/a>, and others continued to endorse Platner despite the fact that almost all allegations, except for the latest rape accusation, were public before the primary.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a New York Times\/Portland Press Herald\/Siena <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/29\/us\/politics\/collins-platner-maine-senate-poll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> found Platner was leading the race against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins by 2 percentage points just days before the latest allegation broke. In other words, Democrats could look past all the other abhorrent alleged conduct because they didn\u2019t threaten the party\u2019s chances of taking a Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>But once Democrat leaders decided that Platner had become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-nominee-has-up-to-55-million-in-trust-used-to-dodge-estate-tax\/\" title=\"DOJ Nominee Has Up to  Million in Trust Used to Dodge Estate Tax\">political liability<\/a>, the calls for him to withdraw came immediately. The issue wasn\u2019t just another accusation; it was that an accusation finally seemed like it could hurt their chances of taking a Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>That is to say, Democrats deserve no accolades for <em>now<\/em> pressuring him to step aside after accepting all his other serious flaws and problems. Their sudden outrage doesn\u2019t erase the fact that they accepted, defended, or just ignored behavior now implicitly acknowledged as being disqualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps what\u2019s even more concerning is that Platner is <em>not<\/em> an isolated case of Democrats accepting and even endorsing candidates who are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secy-of-state-blinken-says-biden-wants-to-restore-failed-iran-nuclear-deal\/\" title=\"Secy. of State Blinken says Biden wants to restore failed Iran Nuclear Deal\">deeply problematic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Democrats elected Jay Jones as attorney general last November after private messages leaked showing he once fantasized about the murder of his Republican colleague Todd Gilbert and Gilbert\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2026\/05\/adam-hamawy-benevolence-international-foundation-bosnia-al-qaida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adam Hamaway<\/a> won the June Democrat primary for New Jersey\u2019s 12th Congressional District despite having volunteered and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/27\/us-news\/top-nj-congressional-hopeful-volunteered-with-al-qaeda-linked-group-in-1990s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interned<\/a> in Bosnia with the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF). The 9\/11 Commission and U.S. authorities later described BIF as providing support to al-Qaida. Hamaway also testified in the defense of Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian-born <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WvV4iYLQcpc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Melat Kiros<\/a> \u2014 who won the Democrat primary for Colorado\u2019s 1st Congressional District in June \u2014 blamed America for 9\/11, calling it \u201cinevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-stimulus-bill-also-sends-millions-to-the-communist-maduro-regime-in-venezuela-where-dominion-voting-machines-originated\/\" title=\"...... Stimulus Bill Also Sends Millions to the Communist Maduro Regime in Venezuela Where Dominion Voting Machines Originated\">forced people<\/a> to believe that another act of violence was the only response. \u2026 Our responsibility is to getting rid of those conditions that lead to violence in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/mamdani-backed-candidate-who-said-us-brought-9-11-on-itself-wins-state-senate-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aber Kawas<\/a>, who won the Democrat primary for a New York State Senate seat, once claimed, \u201cThe system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy et cetera \u2014 and Islamophobia \u2014 have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people and so this is a long trajectory and we\u2019re just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or take Darializa Avila Chevalier, a socialist who won the Democrat primary for New York\u2019s 13th Congressional District. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mamdani-backed-socialist-primary-winner-founded-group-whose-goal-eradicate-western-civilization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">founded<\/a> the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group that called for the \u201ceradication of Western civilization,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/24\/propaganda-media-gear-up-to-whitewash-new-yorks-socialist-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a> she wipes her hands on the American flag, and she has advocated for \u201cseiz[ing] the means of production\u201d (like a good Marxist).<\/p>\n<p>In accepting these candidates, Democrats have made clear they are willing to overlook otherwise entirely disqualifying and career-suicide actions so long as the political cost of doing so does not come at a steep price.<\/p>\n<p>Platner may be gone, but the party is still happily elevating elected officials and candidates who fantasize about murdering their opposition, who justify terrorists\u2019 terrorism, and who openly call to end America as we know it. The only thing Platner\u2019s withdrawal confirms is Democrats have extremely low \u201cstandards.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats oust Platner over new rape allegations, ignoring past issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2627355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-09-at-12.20.28-PM-scaled-e1783614135324-1024x577.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,32837,35802,65502,32504],"class_list":["post-2627354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-election-loss","tag-party-politics","tag-platner","tag-political-strategy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-09-at-12.20.28-PM-scaled-e1783614135324-1024x577.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627358,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627354\/revisions\/2627358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2627355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}