EXPLOSIVE: Platner’s personal scandals threaten to eclipse ENTIRE campaign

[0:00] The Democrat Party doesn't seem to care so long as he opposes Donald Trump. [0:06] I will work with whoever the people of Maine elect, [0:10] but I hope that they elect somebody that is going to stand up to this president. [0:15] That guy has questions to answer, and that's what campaigns are for. [0:18] If we do not get the votes, we will continue to have an out-of-control president. [0:22] This is going to be a pretty clear contrast in Maine [0:24] between somebody who has spent his life protecting us [0:29] versus somebody who seems to be protecting Donald Trump's corruption. [0:33] This comes as Plattner leads Senator Susan Collins by nine points in a recent poll. [0:39] We reached out to Plattner's office for comment, but we haven't heard back. [0:44] We're still waiting for that one. [0:46] Mark, I want to go to you on this. [0:48] I want to start off with maybe the scandal, right? [0:53] This guy's had so many scandals. [0:54] We need the front and backs of the paper to keep up with him. [0:56] I'm not sure this is even the worst of it, right? [0:59] I think folks don't really bat an eyelash anymore [1:01] when there's infidelity or text messages, right? [1:05] That's where we've gotten to in this political world, for better or worse. [1:09] You know, it's not disqualifying anymore. [1:11] I think there's a long list of other things that bother me more [1:14] about this particular gentleman. [1:15] What I can't seem to figure out, and you follow this your whole career, [1:19] how is he polling so much better than Susan Collins, [1:22] who is not mega, right? [1:25] She's about as vanilla of mega as you could possibly get. [1:28] I understand polls are not always accurate, [1:30] but explain to me why someone as problematic as that [1:33] is doing as well as he is. [1:35] I can't really explain it. [1:37] I do know that Susan Collins tends to lose polls and win elections. [1:40] Okay. [1:40] So I don't think that this is dangerous for her. [1:44] But think about this. [1:45] His wife is disappointed, not in her husband sexting women, [1:49] but she's disappointed in us for caring about it, right? [1:52] And she's disappointed in people for exposing it for the voters to see. [1:55] That's what she's disappointed in. [1:56] I mean, that tells you a lot. [1:57] I think it's great news for Susan Collins in that [2:00] she couldn't have picked a better opponent, [2:02] a sexual deviant cheating sleazeball with a Nazi tattoo [2:06] is probably who you want to run against. [2:08] But I think you're right, Tommy, [2:10] which is that things that used to be obviously disqualifying [2:13] are no longer obviously disqualifying. [2:15] You just look at Jay Jones in Virginia, [2:17] running for attorney general, [2:19] chief law enforcement officer, [2:20] who was threatening his fellow legislators [2:23] and the legislators saying he wanted one woman's children [2:26] to die in their mother's arms. [2:28] And he won, not just one, he won decisively 53-47, [2:32] and the winning margin came from suburban women. [2:34] I mean, if that is not, [2:36] if Jay Jones can win an election in Virginia [2:39] with suburban women after what he did, [2:41] then, you know, I guess Plattner can do or say anything [2:44] or tattoo anything he wants on his body and be fine. [2:47] What you're saying is there is no moral floor on the left, [2:49] and I think you're exactly right about that. [2:51] Joe, I know you have a lot of thoughts on Graham Plattner just in general. [2:55] What's interesting to me is there have been a few Democrats [2:58] to their credit who have come out and said this is not the guy, [3:01] and they've even gone so far as to say [3:03] if that means losing this opportunity [3:05] and having a Republican, then so be it. [3:08] I give them credit for that. [3:09] But Democrats, by and large, [3:11] we just saw the clips there. [3:13] They're still standing by him. [3:14] They're using the same thing that they said about Jay Jones, [3:16] about, oh, well, he's got questions to answer, [3:20] but they're not saying that anything that he's done [3:22] is disqualifying or would qualify him [3:24] to be in the position that he's running for. [3:27] Yeah, I'm going to do this backwards. [3:28] Stick with me for just one second. [3:30] So I go through this list. [3:31] So the Nazi tattoo, it was a skull and crossbones tattoo, [3:35] and had I not gone to college, [3:37] if I'd have just gotten out of the Marine Corps, [3:39] I would have never known that that was a Nazi tattoo. [3:41] Somebody might have pointed it out to me, [3:43] hopefully before I got it tattooed on my body. [3:45] So when I hear that, [3:46] I think about being on a white pleathered couch [3:48] in the back of the Harley bar in Okinawa [3:50] and getting my entire ribs tattooed, [3:51] not knowing much about anything at 20, 21 years old. [3:55] So, okay, maybe there's a story behind this tattoo [3:57] I can forgive. [3:58] And then we move on to what's the next thing? [4:00] He talked crap about a Purple Heart recipient. [4:03] Then I find out there's a whole Facebook group [4:05] dedicated to criticizing this Purple Heart recipient [4:07] because of how he earned it, [4:09] like, the thing, disobeying orders and all this. [4:12] I don't know if it's true or not, [4:13] but, okay, I can see getting into one of those Facebook groups [4:15] and saying, this guy's an idiot. [4:17] Don't know I'd say what Graham said, [4:18] but I also have buddies that say ridiculous things [4:20] in dark humor in small circles. [4:22] That's different than publicly. [4:23] Okay, so then, you know, you said it publicly. [4:25] Okay, so then, you know, you said it publicly. [4:26] But then the list just keeps going, [4:27] and that's the problem. [4:28] The stuff about the Port-A-Johns and all that, [4:31] like, I've seen those same comments from men I respect. [4:34] It's dark humor, but it belongs in small circles [4:37] among people you love and respect that know how to take it. [4:40] It doesn't belong on Reddit. [4:41] It doesn't belong in the public sphere. [4:43] And the last thing you should do [4:44] is when you're caught doing it, [4:46] hide behind the valor of your friends, [4:49] which is what he did. [4:49] You say, well, I've got all kinds of friends with Purple Hearts. [4:51] Well, okay, bro. [4:52] Good. [4:53] You know, that doesn't excuse you from your bad behavior. [4:57] You've got to own up to it. [4:58] If you're going to be the guy who campaigns on the fact [5:01] that you had PTSD or you have PTSD [5:03] and that shouldn't be disqualifying, [5:04] then you have to own up to what that means. [5:06] And what that means is you're in a bad place, [5:08] you got to a better place. [5:09] If you haven't got to a better place, [5:11] you don't need to be running for the Senate. [5:12] You need to be looking for help. [5:13] And we'd be happy to help you. [5:15] The nonprofits I work at or work with, [5:17] but just going out there being an a-hole [5:19] for the purpose of being an a-hole doesn't get it done. [5:22] And that's where he is. [5:23] All these things pile up to bad character, [5:25] bad decision-making. [5:26] And we don't need more of that in the Senate [5:27] because quite frankly, we've got plenty of it there already. [5:30] Lydia, to that point, though, [5:31] we know all of his baggage. [5:33] I have not heard what he is going to do [5:35] for his constituents. [5:36] I know that he campaigns with Bernie. [5:38] Actually, about him that I find so troubling [5:40] is actually his policy positions [5:42] of those we've heard so far. [5:43] We haven't heard a lot of them [5:44] because everything has been overshadowed [5:45] by his personal issues. [5:47] But I don't know what qualifies him [5:49] to lead in the Senate of all places. [5:52] And I don't know what part of him [5:54] is going to make his constituents in Maine proud. [5:57] Yeah, I agree with you. [5:58] And I'll keep this short. [5:59] I mean, I don't know enough about him. [6:00] I was trying to figure out what he actually stands for. [6:02] And what stands out more are all the things [6:04] that we do know about him, which are extremely troubling. [6:07] I find it troubling that his wife has to come out here [6:09] on social media and offer some type of defense for him. [6:11] Why she's in that position, I don't know. [6:13] We clearly reached out to his office [6:15] as you just read in the intro. [6:16] He has had the opportunity to explain this for himself [6:18] and why he's not saying anything, I think speaks volumes. [6:21] There might be a lot more to come. [6:24] Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest [6:27] on YouTube and catch full shows streaming now on Fox One.