July 12, 2026 • 31 mins
1. U.S.–Iran Tensions and Sanctions
- The Trump administration's reported decision to reimpose oil sanctions on Iran after alleging that Iran violated a prior agreement.
- Claims that Iranian-linked actions targeted commercial vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global shipping route for oil.
- Discussion of audio allegedly involving threats to ships in the region.
- The commentator presents the sanctions as part of Trump's "maximum pressure" strategy, arguing that Iran violated conditions tied to sanctions relief.
- The segment emphasizes:
- Geopolitical risks.
- Potential impacts on oil markets and energy prices.
- The balance between economic pressure and diplomatic negotiations.
2. Maine Senate Race and Graham Platner Controversy
Topics include:
- Sexual assault allegations made by a former girlfriend.
- Claims regarding abusive behavior and mental health struggles, including PTSD and suicidal ideation.
- Reactions from Democratic Party leaders and media figures.
- Internal Democratic Party disagreements over whether Platner should remain in the race.
- Media interviews and commentary regarding the accusations.
- Platner's denial of the allegations and his assertion that party leaders and the media coordinated efforts to remove him from the race.
- His eventual withdrawal from the race under political pressure.
- Democratic leaders supported Platner until polling numbers became unfavorable.
- The Democratic Party abandoned him for political reasons rather than moral concerns.
- The media and party establishment coordinated efforts to force him out.
- The controversy reveals hypocrisy within Democratic politics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Maximum pressure.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
That is exactly what the President of the United States
of America is announcing now when it comes to dealing
with Iran. And the major story today is that Trump
administration has now officially reimposed US oil sanctions on Iran,
revoking the temporary waiver that had allowed Iranian oil sales
under last month's Memorandum of Understanding. The decision came after
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what the administration described as Iran violating the conditions of
that agreement by launching new attacks against commercial shipping near
the Strait of Hormuz. That is obviously one of the
most strategically important waterways in the world, and we're about
a third of the world's oil goes through each and
every day under normal conditions. As this was announced, here's
(00:47):
how Fox News had it for the world.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
And again, another reported tankers strike in the Strait of Hormuz.
We think two have been struck. It might be more,
but we'll hang on. We'll hang on to two for
the moment. A tanker struck by an unknown projectile trying
to transit the straight of horror moves. Apparently another one
made a U turn and turned around. No casualties reported.
(01:10):
Vessels are being advised to transit with caution. Meanwhile, from
Fox Business, they've obtained audio of an Iranian threatening the
ships in the Strait.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And here is how that sounded in English.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
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Speaker 2 (01:47):
Now the President clearly was responding to not only that
but also the attacks on the ships, and that is
why the President has officially revoked the US license allowing
a Rand to sell its oil. This is it's clearly
him hitting back hard after the millis attacked, those vessels.
No more playing games and as he described it, maximum
pressure is coming back now.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
According to the reports, multiple commercial.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Vessels, including oil and liquid natural gas tankers, were attacked
near the Strait over the last twenty four hours. These
incidentss immediately raised fears that Iran was once again threatening
one of the world's busiest energy checkpoints. And then you
hear the audio they just played for you. The administration
responded swiftly, saying the sanctions relief was always quote performance based,
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and then Iran had failed to uphold its end to
the agreement. This is exactly what President Trump warned would happen,
and his administration has consistently argued that America would negotiate
from strength, not from weakness, and that any sanctioned relief
would disappear the moment Iran resumed threatening international commerce or
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regional stability.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Those are the President's exact words.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So this move is a clear signal that the White
House intends to enforce that promise. Now, before I get
to more of the logistics of this, I also want
to just talk to you about something that's happening right
now that is really important, and that is America standing
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President John F. Kennedy once said Israel was not created
in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish, And
those words capture the spirit of a young democracy that
is still determined to survive. We now have two nations
that are thousands of miles apart, yet united by shared
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(04:35):
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(04:55):
to the broader picture here. It was only weeks ago
that many believed we were with minessing one of the
biggest diplomatic breakthroughs in years, and after months of military conflict,
the White House and the President were hoping that not
only could they reach a memo designed to stop the fighting,
but it was also to reopen the Straight of Four
Moves and begin negotiations over RAN's nuclear program and then
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also their regional activities, their sponsorship of terrorism. Now, part
of that agreement eased restrictions on Iranian oil exports in
exchange for specific commitments from Tehran. Now, that agreement was
never unconditional, even though the media tried to play it
up that way. Again, it was never unconditional. The Trump
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administration has repeatedly described it as a conditional performance based arrangement.
In other words, Iran behaves or they receive no economic relief,
Iran then violate the agreement, and they immediately have now
lost the benefits, which is what the Trump administration said
was going to happen. Now, the administration also says the
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attacks against shipping across the.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Region is a red line. They knew that in Iran.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It was explicitly stated by multiple people in the Trump administration.
So it should come as no surprise as the Iranian
crewed exports once again face US restrictions. This is what
the present said was going to happen, and he did
not flinch. Now, all prices have also surged after the
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sanctions announcement and reports of new attacks in the Strait.
Traders once again are pricing in the geopolitical risk because
roughly again one fifth of the world's seaborne oil has
historically moved through the narrow waterway. Even the possibility of
renewed disruptions affect energy markets worldwide. Shipping companies, by the way,
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they're also responding at this hour. Maritime security organizations have
also raise the threat level for vessels operating in the area.
Insurers are reevaluating the risk of commercial traffic moving through
the Strait as well. And this is why the Strait
matters so much. It's not just about a Ran, It's
not just about the Middle East. It's also, by the way,
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not just about gasoline prices. It's not just about supply
chain issues. It also affects your life and the financial markets.
Whenever there's instability in that region, we see the ripple
effects and we see it at our gas pumps right
now when you go out to get gased. So the
big question now is whether these sanctions are signaling the
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collapse of diplomacy or simply a return to maximum pressure
before negotiations continue. I wish I could to answer that question,
tell you which one I think it is. I don't
think anyone knows right now.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Interestingly enough, the administration officials are making clear that the
talks are quote not necessarily over the reports coming out
of the White House. They say they still believe a
broader agreement as possible, but only if Iran changes course
and ends the attacks on international shipping. That has been
one of President Trump's negotiating trademarks throughout both of his presidency.
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You apply enormous economic pressure, We've seen this with sanction
deals by the way that we're being done around the world,
and we keep the military options on the table at
the same time, then you leave the diplomatic door wide open.
You reward compliance, you punish violations not down the road,
but immediately. And today's sanctions they fit squarely within the
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president strategy, which if anyone is negotiating with his president,
it should not be hard to figure out what the
president is actually saying what the President is actually advocating for,
what the President of United States of America is doing. Like,
there is no guessing needed here. It is obvious what
the President is telling you you have to do. It's
literally in writing. So this is a violation. It is
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going to carry consequences. Some say it is going to
be a significant amount of consequences. We don't know for
sure yet what's going to happen, but this is certainly
a moment where the President believes that maximum pressure is
on the table and he's not going to be screwed
with by Iran sending yet again another message this President
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means business. The Democratic Party at this moment when it
comes to Grand Platiner, is pretty much bipolar. They don't
actually know what's going on. They have no clue what's
going to happen next, and Democrats are accusing their embattled
Maine Senate nominee Grand Platiner of trying to influence who
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would replace him if he dropped out of the race
after facing new rape allegations. Platner is being pushed by
the Democratic Party to drop out of the race after
his ex girlfriend accused him of entering her home in
the middle of the night and raping her in twenty
twenty one. Now, Democrats have been looking for a new nominee,
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and Devin Murphy Anderson, the executive director the main Democratic Party,
is now accusing Platner's team of trying to put their
thumb on the scale of what this process would actually
look like. Other Democrats are now saying we may have
to hold our nos and vote for him, but his
former girlfriend doing a sit down now saying this to
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see it in exclusively trying to make sure the Platner
drops out of the rates.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I think something else that's kind of missing from this
conversation is that particular period of time and the people
that I was socializing with because my cousins were working
at Walter Reed, they were military. I was working for
a military service group a lot of these post nine
eleven vets, but that also wanted to continue having military careers.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
They knew that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
A PTSD diagnosis was like a career killer, and so
getting people help, getting him specifically help for his PTSD,
which he was very much struggling with at this time.
That was my focus was just like how do I
get him help, How do I keep him from killing himself.
My biggest concern throughout most of our relationship was like,
he's going to kill himself, and he kept it, would
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threaten it, he had a plan, and it was really
hard for me to try to navigate my own social
like relationship, like my own sphere and kind of feel
like I had to keep that a secret from everybody,
And so it made our relationship and a lot of
those elements more secretive than they otherwise would have been.
Like maybe I would have been able to tell a
friend and say, hey, Graham's been like this, or just
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telling them about specific incidents.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
With more clarity.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
But I was in this like this is a suffering
man who needs help.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I'm going to make it worse.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Yeah I did at the time.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Oh yes, And that was actually kind of a common
theme too. Anytime that I like, he would say, oh,
you're making me feel bad, and I was like, that's
you know, like in retrospect, like, well, yes, you should
have felt bad about you know. And he would he
would accuse me of like guilt tripping him if I
brought up things, especially if I brought up things like
if I was putting a pattern of behavior together, he
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would accuse me of like, oh, like, are you always
going to bring up the past, Like we're never going
to be able to move forward if you keep bringing
up you know, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
But then when it.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Became clear like there is no future here.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
The only reason for this relationship was for me to
keep him from killing himself or to try to get
him help.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Now, this is really interesting information to come out. They're
now saying the same people that were supporting him, the
grand Platner is an individual who they were worried was
going to kill himself and had a plan to do it,
that he has massive problems with PTSD, disparaging him clearly
now at all costs to get rid of him. But
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there are other Democrats that are also worried that maybe
he won't drop out, and if he doesn't, then what
do we have to do? Well, they're floating that idea
on ABC News on the View when they said this earlier,
and you are.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
One of those people that was willing to plug your nose,
you're the problem.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Well, then I'm the problem because I was one of
those people and I said it. If I lived in Maine,
I would have, you know, plugged my nose and I
would have voted for him. Anyway, I think that we
are in a time of ecisentil crisis in this country.
I think Republicans fall in line, they don't fall in loved.
Democrats want to fall in love and not fall in line.
You know, the Republican Party, the bar is so very low.
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I can't believe. I cannot believe that they want to
try to assume the moral high ground.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So you can hear they're the other strategy it is
to say, well, platters not great. We may have to
hold our nose, but Donald Trump is so evil that
we really just had to find someone to counter him.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So that's how we got to this point.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
And yeah, maybe he's not perfect, but you know, maybe
you just have to hold your nose. Then ms NOW
formerly ms NBC. I don't don't know why they change
their name. Both networks suck. It's still the same thing,
but just so you know, it's ms now now. Apparently
they are taking it even a step further, saying that
Donald Trump actually has created Grand Platner because of how
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bad Donald Trump is.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That's their new spin.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
What do you think the soul searching is not just
in the Democratic Party, but for all of us. Who
covered these things well, listen. I think, first of all,
I thought back then, when the first tranche of these
allegations came forward, that the Platner campaign should have had
a lot more explaining to do. But we're caught in
a moment where there is such profound desperation to have
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some check on Trump's worst impulses, and there is such
hunger for Democrats to control the Senate that it feels
like people were willing to abide a form of dangerous
masculinity that in a pre Trump era would have been
totally disqualifying. And I think it does prompt some real
soul searching about, you know, what we ask of our
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quote unquote warriors, and what we abide and what we
stomach as a society and as a party when it
comes to you know, true fighters, and what it looks
like to be a man in the twenty first century.
And honestly, without you know, sounding too much like a
college professor, I do think so much of the crisis
right now is the collapse of the patriarchy and people
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being completely at sea and trying to figure out what
it means to hold power and to keep power and
to wield it in a just fashion, and the Platner
campaign just raises a huge set of questions about what
strength means and what crosses the line when you are
a strong person. And I think there's a lot of
gut checking that needs to happen inside democratic circles, because
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what is abundantly clear is this person has not had
a check on his power and has felt unfettered and
unapologetic about exercising that power and not offering any explanation
for it.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
All Right, so let's just unpack that for a second.
This guy's so bad because Donald Trump was bad, and
since Donald Trump is bad, they're for this is just
how bad it is, Like that is the new spin.
Graham Plattner, a Nazi Democratic communist candidate, is somehow the
fault of Donald Trump. Graham Plattner's campaign has also responded
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to Lindsay Fitfield's interview, and this is what they said
moments ago in a statement to CNN after their exclusive
sit down.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
This afternoon, our team reached out to the Platner campaign
regarding these allegations made by Fivefield against Graham Plattner in
the portun of our conversation that we just brought to
you In a statement to CNN, the Plantner campaign says
or claims are quote categorically false and come from a
person with a well documented political agenda.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Unquote political agenda. Now, what is the political agenda? Why
are all these people coming out of the woodwork right now?
It's real simple. This is a political hit job by
the Democratic Party. This is exactly the same playbook that
they used against Eric Swawell. When you get former girlfriends
who they didn't talk to before now talking to them
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to trash him the way that they are, it is
obvious this is a orchestrated effort by the Democratic Party.
If you are a grand Platner, by the way, do
you actually drop out by the thirteenth and allow for
another candidate or do you stay on the ballot drop
out after the thirteenth to screw everyone that's now screwing you.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That's the big question. Now.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
There's also another piece of audio from the former Platner girlfriend,
and here's what she said in this quote exclusive interview
with CNN.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
At the time. Weirdly enough, this isn't a soundpathetic. I
felt like, oh, he really loves me. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
It felt like he really cared, like, oh, his jealousy.
When I started new relationships at that time felt like
love and now I know that that was not love
and it was not it was not really we thought
we were in love, but it was. That sounds very toxic, Yes, yeah,
toxic is a great word.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I do now at this moment, continues to deny all
of these allegations against them, the sexual assault allegations. He's
called them false, and he has not announced he's leaving
the race. Instead, he said he is taking time to
determine quote the best path forward.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Two.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It still seems like he has some sort of campaign
apparatus that is putting out instant responses to the new
allegations to destroy him as a person. And in the
last several days you have the entire Democratic machine going
against him. Democratic leaders, including the Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer and Senator Bernie Sanders. They're now publicly calling multiple
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times on Platner to drop out of the race. Now,
the reason why they're putting maximum pressure is all.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Because of the date.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
If he doesn't step aside before the States July thirteenth deadline,
the party will not be able to nominate a replacement
candidate and what's remarkable is now how quickly the political.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Landscape has changed.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
For months, all of these same Democrats defended Platner through
previous controversies, but after the latest allegations, really because of
the poll numbers, then they all said, we're going to
be done with you. And if Platner wants to know
what his future looks like, he should probably just call
Eric Swallwell talk to him about what's happening to his race,
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because he knows all about it. This is, by the way,
the Democratic Communist Socialist Marxist Party. They'll use you if
as a Communist Socialist or Marxist until they think you
can't win, and when you can't win, they will get
rid of you faster than they even try to get
rid of Donald Trump. Well, it finally happened. After days
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of mounting pressure, Graham Platner has dropped out of the
main Senate race, leaving Democrats scrambling to save one of
the races they believe gave them their best chance to
flip a Republican Senate seat, which could easily meet them
having the majority in the Senate after the midterm elections.
But before we get to what happened next, let's remember
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exactly what brought us to this point. This wasn't one controversy,
it was a cascade. Platner's campaign had already been rocked
by resurface social media posts that generated massive backlash. Then
came the scrutiny over at tattoo, a ss Nazi tattoo. Then,
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of course the candidate said, oh, I just got it
well intoxicated in the Marines. It just happened to resemble
the Naziss symbol, but he didn't really know it. But
then later he covered it up. Former partners then came
out and made allegations about abusive behavior and non consensual
sexual conduct rape. Finally, a former girlfriend publicly accused him
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of sexually assaulting her in twenty twenty one, an allegation
that Platner has repeatedly and categorically denied. Now, as all
those allegations mounted, the political support was solid until the
very end, when pulling that has showed that Graham may
not be able to win the race. And that is
when things changed. Overnight. Bernie Sanders, who stood by him
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no matter what until the poll numbers switched, called for
him to step aside. Then Senate Democratic leaders with drew
their support and said the money would be shut off
to his campaign. Progressive organizations who stood by him through everything,
once they saw the poll numbers, they abandoned him instantly
and helped destroy him. Then the main Democratic Party concluded
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he could no longer be their nominee, shutting off the money.
And then Graham Platner came out and was forced to
say this.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
Hey everyone, it's Cramp Platner here. I think, as many
of you know, over the past couple days, I have
faced some very serious allegations, and I just want to
make it clear this is all false. The things that
have been claimed did not happen. It's not real. It
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has placed an immense amount of weight on me as
I think about what needs to happen now. Amy and
I are regular people. We were not looking for this experience.
We were not looking to get into politics. We had
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no desire to run for office. I just want you
to think about what you would do as a regular
person in a position where a much larger world, large
forces were working against you personally to accuse you of
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the worst thing that a person could do, and it
was not remotely true. I learned about this through press
inquiries with no time to truly respond, no time for
investigations before a corporate media system and the political establishment
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got to act as judge, jury, and executioner. Accusations are
supposed to be the beginning of things, not the end.
I think it's really important to understand why this is
happening in the timeline, why this is happening right now,
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much like October when the first attack started, Much like
the news that was created the week before the primary.
There is a reason that this is happening now. I
only have until July thirteenth until I am officially the nominee.
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This was the last week to try to get me
off of the ballot, and that's why this is occurring.
It's not the false allegations, though that have brought us
to where we are. It's the fact that they are
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being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure
on us. We live in a political system that is
not built for normal people. It is a system that
is built structurally to make sure that movements like ours
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cannot flourish, that if they begin to succeed, they can
be crushed. What we have accomplished here you made possible.
The people of Maine the volunteers, the voters, the grassroots donors,
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and I have all the faith in the world that
we could win if we could continue to harness that.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But the brutal political.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Reality is that 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
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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 needs on the basic
level simply to function. Larger organizations, the national level party,
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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. What comes next needs to
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come from the people. Needs to come from the people
of Maine. Needs to come from the voters, who, on
June ninth, at a strength of over one hundred and
fifty thousand, the largest number in the history of Maine primaries,
said no to this kind of politics, voted for a
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politics that would actually represent them. Voted against the political system,
against the donor class, against the entrenched forces. And I'm
not asking for how this process is going to work.
I'm not trying to dictate to anyone who it should
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be or how we get there. But I will say this,
it needs to be open, transparent, and democratic. It needs
to be reflecting the will and the values of the
people that built this movement, the people that showed up
on June ninth. People in DC need to stay in DC.
Decisions should not be made in back rooms by people
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in places of political power. Party apparatics are not the
ones to make these decisions. These decisions need to be
made in the open by the people of this state,
the people who got us here. This is exactly the
kind of political system that everyone voted against June ninth.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Isn't it interesting?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
The Grand Platinum has been over the establishment pressure dropped
out of the race, but is calling them out, saying
you forced me out, and the media. The dude, by
the way, that pretended to be a big old fighter
totally surrendered. Now he's maintaining that all I want to
make this clear, all the allegations are false. He's saying,
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I just learned about them through the media because they
wanted me out. Now, the Democrats, to be clear, they're
not exactly celebrating at this moment either.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
They're panicked. This wasn't just any Senate race.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
For months, national Democrats considered Maine one of their very
best pickup opportunities in the country.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
The Republican Susan Collins has always.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Been one of the toughest Republicans for Democrats to defeat,
but they believe that Platner's outsider campaign had really energized
voters in a new, unique way. Now, just months before
election day, that entire strategy has collapsed, and instead of
spending that summer that they were hoping for attacking and
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talking about Susan Collins, Democrats are holding emergency meetings trying
to figure out who their nominee will even be. The
main Democratic party now has only a narrow legal window
to formally replace Platner on the ballot, with a party
convention expected to choose a new nominee before the state's deadline.
Now there's already several names that are being floated. Former
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Maine Senate President Troy Jackson has announced he's running for
the nomination former CDC director Narov Shah is also considering,
we're being told, entering the race. Jordan Wood is also
weighing a campaign, and there's many other names are actually
circulating as I'm talking to you right now.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Even the actor this isn't a joke.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Patrick Dempsey had to publicly say he wasn't interested because
the speculation was so intense. That's how chaotic this has
actually become. Now in Hollywood, actors have to deny that
they're running for Senate. You know, a political party is
searching for anyone that can stabilize a disaster of a race.
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And here's the question Democrats now have to answer, how
did we get here? Because, let's be honest, many of
the controversy surrounding Platner weren't new. Questions about his online history,
questions about his tattoo, questions about his past relationships. Much
of that had already surfaced before the Democratic primary. Voters
made him their nominee. Yeah, they picked him knowing all
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of this. One thing is for sure. Democrats are going
to rally like never before, with money probably coming in
from all over the country.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
And that is where the story is at this hour.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
We'll keep following this story, I can promise you that
we've got a lot more that's going to happen the
days ahead, So make sure you don't forget. Grab our podcast,
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Maximum pressure.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
That is exactly what the President of the United States
of America is announcing now when it comes to dealing
with Iran. And the major story today is that Trump
administration has now officially reimposed US oil sanctions on Iran,
revoking the temporary waiver that had allowed Iranian oil sales
under last month's Memorandum of Understanding. The decision came after
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what the administration described as Iran violating the conditions of
that agreement by launching new attacks against commercial shipping near
the Strait of Hormuz. That is obviously one of the
most strategically important waterways in the world, and we're about
a third of the world's oil goes through each and
every day under normal conditions. As this was announced, here's
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how Fox News had it for the world.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
And again, another reported tankers strike in the Strait of Hormuz.
We think two have been struck. It might be more,
but we'll hang on. We'll hang on to two for
the moment. A tanker struck by an unknown projectile trying
to transit the straight of horror moves. Apparently another one
made a U turn and turned around. No casualties reported.
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Vessels are being advised to transit with caution. Meanwhile, from
Fox Business, they've obtained audio of an Iranian threatening the
ships in the Strait.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And here is how that sounded in English.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
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Speaker 2 (01:47):
Now the President clearly was responding to not only that
but also the attacks on the ships, and that is
why the President has officially revoked the US license allowing
a Rand to sell its oil. This is it's clearly
him hitting back hard after the millis attacked, those vessels.
No more playing games and as he described it, maximum
pressure is coming back now.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
According to the reports, multiple commercial.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Vessels, including oil and liquid natural gas tankers, were attacked
near the Strait over the last twenty four hours. These
incidentss immediately raised fears that Iran was once again threatening
one of the world's busiest energy checkpoints. And then you
hear the audio they just played for you. The administration
responded swiftly, saying the sanctions relief was always quote performance based,
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and then Iran had failed to uphold its end to
the agreement. This is exactly what President Trump warned would happen,
and his administration has consistently argued that America would negotiate
from strength, not from weakness, and that any sanctioned relief
would disappear the moment Iran resumed threatening international commerce or
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regional stability.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Those are the President's exact words.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So this move is a clear signal that the White
House intends to enforce that promise. Now, before I get
to more of the logistics of this, I also want
to just talk to you about something that's happening right
now that is really important, and that is America standing
with our most sacred ally in the Middle East, Israel,
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between the US and Israel. They are our greatest ally.
President John F. Kennedy once said Israel was not created
in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish, And
those words capture the spirit of a young democracy that
is still determined to survive. We now have two nations
that are thousands of miles apart, yet united by shared
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celebrate our two hundred and fifty years of independence, let's
make sure that we stand with Israel and the International
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to the broader picture here. It was only weeks ago
that many believed we were with minessing one of the
biggest diplomatic breakthroughs in years, and after months of military conflict,
the White House and the President were hoping that not
only could they reach a memo designed to stop the fighting,
but it was also to reopen the Straight of Four
Moves and begin negotiations over RAN's nuclear program and then
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also their regional activities, their sponsorship of terrorism. Now, part
of that agreement eased restrictions on Iranian oil exports in
exchange for specific commitments from Tehran. Now, that agreement was
never unconditional, even though the media tried to play it
up that way. Again, it was never unconditional. The Trump
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administration has repeatedly described it as a conditional performance based arrangement.
In other words, Iran behaves or they receive no economic relief,
Iran then violate the agreement, and they immediately have now
lost the benefits, which is what the Trump administration said
was going to happen. Now, the administration also says the
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attacks against shipping across the.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Region is a red line. They knew that in Iran.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It was explicitly stated by multiple people in the Trump administration.
So it should come as no surprise as the Iranian
crewed exports once again face US restrictions. This is what
the present said was going to happen, and he did
not flinch. Now, all prices have also surged after the
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sanctions announcement and reports of new attacks in the Strait.
Traders once again are pricing in the geopolitical risk because
roughly again one fifth of the world's seaborne oil has
historically moved through the narrow waterway. Even the possibility of
renewed disruptions affect energy markets worldwide. Shipping companies, by the way,
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they're also responding at this hour. Maritime security organizations have
also raise the threat level for vessels operating in the area.
Insurers are reevaluating the risk of commercial traffic moving through
the Strait as well. And this is why the Strait
matters so much. It's not just about a Ran, It's
not just about the Middle East. It's also, by the way,
(07:16):
not just about gasoline prices. It's not just about supply
chain issues. It also affects your life and the financial markets.
Whenever there's instability in that region, we see the ripple
effects and we see it at our gas pumps right
now when you go out to get gased. So the
big question now is whether these sanctions are signaling the
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collapse of diplomacy or simply a return to maximum pressure
before negotiations continue. I wish I could to answer that question,
tell you which one I think it is. I don't
think anyone knows right now.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Interestingly enough, the administration officials are making clear that the
talks are quote not necessarily over the reports coming out
of the White House. They say they still believe a
broader agreement as possible, but only if Iran changes course
and ends the attacks on international shipping. That has been
one of President Trump's negotiating trademarks throughout both of his presidency.
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You apply enormous economic pressure, We've seen this with sanction
deals by the way that we're being done around the world,
and we keep the military options on the table at
the same time, then you leave the diplomatic door wide open.
You reward compliance, you punish violations not down the road,
but immediately. And today's sanctions they fit squarely within the
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president strategy, which if anyone is negotiating with his president,
it should not be hard to figure out what the
president is actually saying what the President is actually advocating for,
what the President of United States of America is doing. Like,
there is no guessing needed here. It is obvious what
the President is telling you you have to do. It's
literally in writing. So this is a violation. It is
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going to carry consequences. Some say it is going to
be a significant amount of consequences. We don't know for
sure yet what's going to happen, but this is certainly
a moment where the President believes that maximum pressure is
on the table and he's not going to be screwed
with by Iran sending yet again another message this President
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means business. The Democratic Party at this moment when it
comes to Grand Platiner, is pretty much bipolar. They don't
actually know what's going on. They have no clue what's
going to happen next, and Democrats are accusing their embattled
Maine Senate nominee Grand Platiner of trying to influence who
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would replace him if he dropped out of the race
after facing new rape allegations. Platner is being pushed by
the Democratic Party to drop out of the race after
his ex girlfriend accused him of entering her home in
the middle of the night and raping her in twenty
twenty one. Now, Democrats have been looking for a new nominee,
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and Devin Murphy Anderson, the executive director the main Democratic Party,
is now accusing Platner's team of trying to put their
thumb on the scale of what this process would actually
look like. Other Democrats are now saying we may have
to hold our nos and vote for him, but his
former girlfriend doing a sit down now saying this to
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see it in exclusively trying to make sure the Platner
drops out of the rates.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I think something else that's kind of missing from this
conversation is that particular period of time and the people
that I was socializing with because my cousins were working
at Walter Reed, they were military. I was working for
a military service group a lot of these post nine
eleven vets, but that also wanted to continue having military careers.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
They knew that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
A PTSD diagnosis was like a career killer, and so
getting people help, getting him specifically help for his PTSD,
which he was very much struggling with at this time.
That was my focus was just like how do I
get him help, How do I keep him from killing himself.
My biggest concern throughout most of our relationship was like,
he's going to kill himself, and he kept it, would
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threaten it, he had a plan, and it was really
hard for me to try to navigate my own social
like relationship, like my own sphere and kind of feel
like I had to keep that a secret from everybody,
And so it made our relationship and a lot of
those elements more secretive than they otherwise would have been.
Like maybe I would have been able to tell a
friend and say, hey, Graham's been like this, or just
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telling them about specific incidents.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
With more clarity.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
But I was in this like this is a suffering
man who needs help.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I'm going to make it worse.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Yeah I did at the time.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Oh yes, And that was actually kind of a common
theme too. Anytime that I like, he would say, oh,
you're making me feel bad, and I was like, that's
you know, like in retrospect, like, well, yes, you should
have felt bad about you know. And he would he
would accuse me of like guilt tripping him if I
brought up things, especially if I brought up things like
if I was putting a pattern of behavior together, he
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would accuse me of like, oh, like, are you always
going to bring up the past, Like we're never going
to be able to move forward if you keep bringing
up you know, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
But then when it.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Became clear like there is no future here.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
The only reason for this relationship was for me to
keep him from killing himself or to try to get
him help.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Now, this is really interesting information to come out. They're
now saying the same people that were supporting him, the
grand Platner is an individual who they were worried was
going to kill himself and had a plan to do it,
that he has massive problems with PTSD, disparaging him clearly
now at all costs to get rid of him. But
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there are other Democrats that are also worried that maybe
he won't drop out, and if he doesn't, then what
do we have to do? Well, they're floating that idea
on ABC News on the View when they said this earlier,
and you are.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
One of those people that was willing to plug your nose,
you're the problem.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Well, then I'm the problem because I was one of
those people and I said it. If I lived in Maine,
I would have, you know, plugged my nose and I
would have voted for him. Anyway, I think that we
are in a time of ecisentil crisis in this country.
I think Republicans fall in line, they don't fall in loved.
Democrats want to fall in love and not fall in line.
You know, the Republican Party, the bar is so very low.
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I can't believe. I cannot believe that they want to
try to assume the moral high ground.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So you can hear they're the other strategy it is
to say, well, platters not great. We may have to
hold our nose, but Donald Trump is so evil that
we really just had to find someone to counter him.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So that's how we got to this point.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
And yeah, maybe he's not perfect, but you know, maybe
you just have to hold your nose. Then ms NOW
formerly ms NBC. I don't don't know why they change
their name. Both networks suck. It's still the same thing,
but just so you know, it's ms now now. Apparently
they are taking it even a step further, saying that
Donald Trump actually has created Grand Platner because of how
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bad Donald Trump is.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That's their new spin.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
What do you think the soul searching is not just
in the Democratic Party, but for all of us. Who
covered these things well, listen. I think, first of all,
I thought back then, when the first tranche of these
allegations came forward, that the Platner campaign should have had
a lot more explaining to do. But we're caught in
a moment where there is such profound desperation to have
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some check on Trump's worst impulses, and there is such
hunger for Democrats to control the Senate that it feels
like people were willing to abide a form of dangerous
masculinity that in a pre Trump era would have been
totally disqualifying. And I think it does prompt some real
soul searching about, you know, what we ask of our
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quote unquote warriors, and what we abide and what we
stomach as a society and as a party when it
comes to you know, true fighters, and what it looks
like to be a man in the twenty first century.
And honestly, without you know, sounding too much like a
college professor, I do think so much of the crisis
right now is the collapse of the patriarchy and people
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being completely at sea and trying to figure out what
it means to hold power and to keep power and
to wield it in a just fashion, and the Platner
campaign just raises a huge set of questions about what
strength means and what crosses the line when you are
a strong person. And I think there's a lot of
gut checking that needs to happen inside democratic circles, because
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what is abundantly clear is this person has not had
a check on his power and has felt unfettered and
unapologetic about exercising that power and not offering any explanation
for it.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
All Right, so let's just unpack that for a second.
This guy's so bad because Donald Trump was bad, and
since Donald Trump is bad, they're for this is just
how bad it is, Like that is the new spin.
Graham Plattner, a Nazi Democratic communist candidate, is somehow the
fault of Donald Trump. Graham Plattner's campaign has also responded
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to Lindsay Fitfield's interview, and this is what they said
moments ago in a statement to CNN after their exclusive
sit down.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
This afternoon, our team reached out to the Platner campaign
regarding these allegations made by Fivefield against Graham Plattner in
the portun of our conversation that we just brought to
you In a statement to CNN, the Plantner campaign says
or claims are quote categorically false and come from a
person with a well documented political agenda.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Unquote political agenda. Now, what is the political agenda? Why
are all these people coming out of the woodwork right now?
It's real simple. This is a political hit job by
the Democratic Party. This is exactly the same playbook that
they used against Eric Swawell. When you get former girlfriends
who they didn't talk to before now talking to them
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to trash him the way that they are, it is
obvious this is a orchestrated effort by the Democratic Party.
If you are a grand Platner, by the way, do
you actually drop out by the thirteenth and allow for
another candidate or do you stay on the ballot drop
out after the thirteenth to screw everyone that's now screwing you.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That's the big question. Now.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
There's also another piece of audio from the former Platner girlfriend,
and here's what she said in this quote exclusive interview
with CNN.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
At the time. Weirdly enough, this isn't a soundpathetic. I
felt like, oh, he really loves me. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
It felt like he really cared, like, oh, his jealousy.
When I started new relationships at that time felt like
love and now I know that that was not love
and it was not it was not really we thought
we were in love, but it was. That sounds very toxic, Yes, yeah,
toxic is a great word.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I do now at this moment, continues to deny all
of these allegations against them, the sexual assault allegations. He's
called them false, and he has not announced he's leaving
the race. Instead, he said he is taking time to
determine quote the best path forward.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Two.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It still seems like he has some sort of campaign
apparatus that is putting out instant responses to the new
allegations to destroy him as a person. And in the
last several days you have the entire Democratic machine going
against him. Democratic leaders, including the Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer and Senator Bernie Sanders. They're now publicly calling multiple
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times on Platner to drop out of the race. Now,
the reason why they're putting maximum pressure is all.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Because of the date.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
If he doesn't step aside before the States July thirteenth deadline,
the party will not be able to nominate a replacement
candidate and what's remarkable is now how quickly the political.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Landscape has changed.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
For months, all of these same Democrats defended Platner through
previous controversies, but after the latest allegations, really because of
the poll numbers, then they all said, we're going to
be done with you. And if Platner wants to know
what his future looks like, he should probably just call
Eric Swallwell talk to him about what's happening to his race,
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because he knows all about it. This is, by the way,
the Democratic Communist Socialist Marxist Party. They'll use you if
as a Communist Socialist or Marxist until they think you
can't win, and when you can't win, they will get
rid of you faster than they even try to get
rid of Donald Trump. Well, it finally happened. After days
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of mounting pressure, Graham Platner has dropped out of the
main Senate race, leaving Democrats scrambling to save one of
the races they believe gave them their best chance to
flip a Republican Senate seat, which could easily meet them
having the majority in the Senate after the midterm elections.
But before we get to what happened next, let's remember
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exactly what brought us to this point. This wasn't one controversy,
it was a cascade. Platner's campaign had already been rocked
by resurface social media posts that generated massive backlash. Then
came the scrutiny over at tattoo, a ss Nazi tattoo. Then,
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of course the candidate said, oh, I just got it
well intoxicated in the Marines. It just happened to resemble
the Naziss symbol, but he didn't really know it. But
then later he covered it up. Former partners then came
out and made allegations about abusive behavior and non consensual
sexual conduct rape. Finally, a former girlfriend publicly accused him
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of sexually assaulting her in twenty twenty one, an allegation
that Platner has repeatedly and categorically denied. Now, as all
those allegations mounted, the political support was solid until the
very end, when pulling that has showed that Graham may
not be able to win the race. And that is
when things changed. Overnight. Bernie Sanders, who stood by him
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no matter what until the poll numbers switched, called for
him to step aside. Then Senate Democratic leaders with drew
their support and said the money would be shut off
to his campaign. Progressive organizations who stood by him through everything,
once they saw the poll numbers, they abandoned him instantly
and helped destroy him. Then the main Democratic Party concluded
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he could no longer be their nominee, shutting off the money.
And then Graham Platner came out and was forced to
say this.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
Hey everyone, it's Cramp Platner here. I think, as many
of you know, over the past couple days, I have
faced some very serious allegations, and I just want to
make it clear this is all false. The things that
have been claimed did not happen. It's not real. It
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has placed an immense amount of weight on me as
I think about what needs to happen now. Amy and
I are regular people. We were not looking for this experience.
We were not looking to get into politics. We had
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no desire to run for office. I just want you
to think about what you would do as a regular
person in a position where a much larger world, large
forces were working against you personally to accuse you of
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the worst thing that a person could do, and it
was not remotely true. I learned about this through press
inquiries with no time to truly respond, no time for
investigations before a corporate media system and the political establishment
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got to act as judge, jury, and executioner. Accusations are
supposed to be the beginning of things, not the end.
I think it's really important to understand why this is
happening in the timeline, why this is happening right now,
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much like October when the first attack started, Much like
the news that was created the week before the primary.
There is a reason that this is happening now. I
only have until July thirteenth until I am officially the nominee.
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This was the last week to try to get me
off of the ballot, and that's why this is occurring.
It's not the false allegations, though that have brought us
to where we are. It's the fact that they are
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being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure
on us. We live in a political system that is
not built for normal people. It is a system that
is built structurally to make sure that movements like ours
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cannot flourish, that if they begin to succeed, they can
be crushed. What we have accomplished here you made possible.
The people of Maine the volunteers, the voters, the grassroots donors,
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and I have all the faith in the world that
we could win if we could continue to harness that.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But the brutal political.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Reality is that 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
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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 needs on the basic
level simply to function. Larger organizations, the national level party,
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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. What comes next needs to
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come from the people. Needs to come from the people
of Maine. Needs to come from the voters, who, on
June ninth, at a strength of over one hundred and
fifty thousand, the largest number in the history of Maine primaries,
said no to this kind of politics, voted for a
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politics that would actually represent them. Voted against the political system,
against the donor class, against the entrenched forces. And I'm
not asking for how this process is going to work.
I'm not trying to dictate to anyone who it should
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be or how we get there. But I will say this,
it needs to be open, transparent, and democratic. It needs
to be reflecting the will and the values of the
people that built this movement, the people that showed up
on June ninth. People in DC need to stay in DC.
Decisions should not be made in back rooms by people
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in places of political power. Party apparatics are not the
ones to make these decisions. These decisions need to be
made in the open by the people of this state,
the people who got us here. This is exactly the
kind of political system that everyone voted against June ninth.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Isn't it interesting?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
The Grand Platinum has been over the establishment pressure dropped
out of the race, but is calling them out, saying
you forced me out, and the media. The dude, by
the way, that pretended to be a big old fighter
totally surrendered. Now he's maintaining that all I want to
make this clear, all the allegations are false. He's saying,
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I just learned about them through the media because they
wanted me out. Now, the Democrats, to be clear, they're
not exactly celebrating at this moment either.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
They're panicked. This wasn't just any Senate race.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
For months, national Democrats considered Maine one of their very
best pickup opportunities in the country.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
The Republican Susan Collins has always.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Been one of the toughest Republicans for Democrats to defeat,
but they believe that Platner's outsider campaign had really energized
voters in a new, unique way. Now, just months before
election day, that entire strategy has collapsed, and instead of
spending that summer that they were hoping for attacking and
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talking about Susan Collins, Democrats are holding emergency meetings trying
to figure out who their nominee will even be. The
main Democratic party now has only a narrow legal window
to formally replace Platner on the ballot, with a party
convention expected to choose a new nominee before the state's deadline.
Now there's already several names that are being floated. Former
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Maine Senate President Troy Jackson has announced he's running for
the nomination former CDC director Narov Shah is also considering,
we're being told, entering the race. Jordan Wood is also
weighing a campaign, and there's many other names are actually
circulating as I'm talking to you right now.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Even the actor this isn't a joke.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Patrick Dempsey had to publicly say he wasn't interested because
the speculation was so intense. That's how chaotic this has
actually become. Now in Hollywood, actors have to deny that
they're running for Senate. You know, a political party is
searching for anyone that can stabilize a disaster of a race.
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And here's the question Democrats now have to answer, how
did we get here? Because, let's be honest, many of
the controversy surrounding Platner weren't new. Questions about his online history,
questions about his tattoo, questions about his past relationships. Much
of that had already surfaced before the Democratic primary. Voters
made him their nominee. Yeah, they picked him knowing all
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of this. One thing is for sure. Democrats are going
to rally like never before, with money probably coming in
from all over the country.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
And that is where the story is at this hour.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
We'll keep following this story, I can promise you that
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