Yes, that’s true.
It remains to be seen whether Rahm Emanuel’s initiative will do anything to get this issue out in the open. The current situation is (basically) two sides, each equally confident of their Righteousness. That is not working.
Tuition for day students is $68,000 a year!
Um bullshit. If you’re not looking at them, where are you hearing this from? If I were you, I’d be far more suspect of your sources and wondering what kind of agenda they have to push.
Platner has reportedly told associates that he plans to file papers formally withdrawing from the race on Monday.
Why is he waiting until right up against the deadline?
Is he trying to further pressure state party leaders to let him pick a successor, or is he hoping to claim a groundswell of support has emerged, leading him to announce that he’s changing his mind about dropping out?
I think he’s probably trying to extort money from the party. In any case, pretty in line with him being a piece of shit that belongs nowhere near office.
My first thought was spite. He doesn’t seem above pulling a passive aggressive stunt like that. I thought I heard him, or someone quoting him say something about waiting until the very last minute. Now I’m kind of worrying what kind of shit he might pull,digging us into a deeper pit.
Wait, are you honestly asking for a source for people blaming the “establishment” for Platner’s demise? It’s everywhere. It’s in this thread. Platner himself said as much in his graceless, sulking “withdrawal” speech. (we have to put “withdrawal” in quotes because the piece of shit hasn’t actually filed the papers yet, he’s dragging it out and trying to make the exit wound as painful as possible, and still apparently trying to pick his “successor”).
And that fits with what anyone ought to have seen coming. A guy who commits domestic violence and sexts other women and gets a Nazi tattoo and waves it off without apologizing, just lies and lame excuses about PTSD, will do anything. Literally anything. And he’ll blame someone else for it, as he and his supporters are now doing.
Now ask yourself how this would’ve gone down had he actually gotten elected, and then the rape allegation came out, and then the Democrats asked him to step down. If you think this is a guy who would own his fuckups and do the gracious thing, you’re dreaming. He’d torch the Dems first. We still don’t know he’s actually going to drop out and support his replacement.
And that’s what some of us were saying all along - he could do anything once elected, because you simply do not know who this person is. Even after all this, I don’t think we’ve yet seen his shittiest depths.
I’m hoping we never will.
We might well have gotten to see them had he stayed in the race* through further disclosures, including what the Collins campaign might have saved up to release at an appropriate time. They must be gnashing their teeth at Collins HQ, now that they’ll have to spend much more time defending her support of Trump and MAGA.
*assuming he doesn’t make a U-turn at the last minute and refuse to withdraw.
Yes. Platner is one of those who’ve seen a path to Power as a Democrat via trashing Democrats.
(And, yes, via trashing Jewish people as being The Democratic Establishment.) This ugliness is guaranteed to keep Republicans in charge, among other unpleasant things. It’s an inherently unprincipled tactic. And Platner is its poster child.
Either is possible, but I’d bet (if there were a way) that he’s still fantasizing about being handed a seat in the US Senate.
Besides the nail-biting issue of whether he’ll make the 5pm Monday deadline to file the paperwork, there’s also the fact that fundraising for Dems will have basically ground to a halt.
While Susan Collins is sitting on a big fat war chest.
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/09/graham-platner-exit-maine-senate-race-deadline