# Senate races 2026

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**Created:** [January 28, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-races-2026/1013534 "2025-01-28T15:04:17Z")\
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> [@DSeid](#):
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> Which may be true. And is part of the worry - that going forward in the party we don’t.

The Platner thing demonstrates this perfectly, I think. Those of us concerned about his anti-semitic warning signs were ignored at best, and called MAGA supporting traitors at worst. It’s not until it came out that he was a trash human being for entirely different reasons that people stopped running cover for him.

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