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Democrats’ civil war is blazing — now the GOP will feast
NY Post ^ | 7/13/26 | Joe Gruters

Posted on 07/13/2026 7:49:45 PM PDT by Libloather

The Democratic Party is at war with itself — and in Maine, the fight has spilled into the open.

Graham Platner, an alleged rapist with a Nazi tattoo on his chest, won the Democratic nomination for United States Senate last month, beating the candidate the party establishment had recruited by a commanding 53-point margin.

For months, Republicans and others had warned that Platner was unfit for the job.

The Democrats did not care.

As soon as party leaders saw polling that suggested he could beat Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November they embraced him, hosting him in Washington, DC, and pledging as much campaign cash as he needed.

His baggage didn’t matter. His poll numbers did.

Then the numbers turned, and Platner’s lead collapsed into a dead heat.

That’s when fresh allegations of Platner’s monstrous behavior toward women appeared to confirm what Republicans had been saying for months — and within hours, the man Democrats had celebrated as their rising star became radioactive.

So the machine moved in for the kill — yanking endorsements, choking off the money, threatening to abandon the Maine Senate race entirely unless he got out.

Within days, the nominee Maine Democrats had chosen was gone, run out of his own campaign by the very same people who had gladly leaped on his bandwagon before its wheels came off.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; democrats; feast; gop; grahamplatner; maine; susancollins; war

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1 posted on 07/13/2026 7:49:45 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Democrats’ civil war is blazing — now the GOP will feast

First pounce. Then feast.

2 posted on 07/13/2026 7:55:46 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Libloather

Hosting him in Washington DC, they all choked their chicken in portable toilets.


3 posted on 07/13/2026 8:01:34 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Steely Tom

Never fear, GOP is great at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.


4 posted on 07/13/2026 8:01:35 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: Libloather
"Maine’s next Democratic nominee for US Senate will be picked in a backroom in just two weeks, crowned by a few hundred party insiders at a convention the public never voted for."

Bait and switch.


5 posted on 07/13/2026 8:02:47 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Libloather
now the GOP will feast

Yeah, I got a good chuckle out of this wishful thinking.

6 posted on 07/13/2026 8:06:50 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Everyone that voted Trump/R in '24 needs to show up in '26.)
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To: Libloather
“As Mr. Platner’s star rose through the winter and early spring,” the Times wrote Wednesday, “Mr. Katz was privately promoting him as a future presidential candidate for as soon as 2028, if he won his senate bid.”

These are not serious people. Dishonest, dishonorable, and very dangerous, but not serious.

7 posted on 07/13/2026 8:10:03 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: clearcarbon

That’s the way it should be when you think about it. You know that 17th amendment stuff.


8 posted on 07/13/2026 8:11:14 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Libloather

There it is.


9 posted on 07/13/2026 8:17:59 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Libloather
This article is a few months premature. First let's win some elections, and then we can 'feast.' Keep the biblical proverb in mind:

"One who puts on his armor should not boast like one who takes it off." (I Kings 20:11)

10 posted on 07/13/2026 8:26:22 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Indeed.


11 posted on 07/13/2026 8:39:29 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: for-q-clinton

that’s the party with which we grew up—

-—this R configuration is better....with Cornyn, McConnell, Tillis GONE, and a new senator from SC.

You should get on board and assist, rather than dwell on past weaknesses


12 posted on 07/13/2026 8:55:39 PM PDT by chiller ( Davy Crockett said:"Be sure you're right, then go ahead." I'll go ahead.)
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To: for-q-clinton

“Never fear, GOP is great at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.”

No guts, no balls. Some gutsy PACs should run Willie Horton style ads against the Democrats. For example, use the picture of that fiend standing over a cringing Iryna Zarutska.


13 posted on 07/13/2026 9:58:24 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Libloather

Let them all move to Cuber to get themselves straightened out.


14 posted on 07/13/2026 11:12:40 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Steely Tom
Exactly, our QUISLING COWARD "representatives", all the way up to TRUMP don't have the MORAL POTENCE to go in for the kill.

Still ZERO "elite" arrests.

Still ZERO impeached judges.

Kyle Rittenhouse granted us more justice than 5-1/2 years of Trump.

15 posted on 07/14/2026 12:32:27 AM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: chiller

“this R configuration is better....with Cornyn, McConnell, Tillis GONE, and a new senator from SC.”

I agree and Massie also gone.


16 posted on 07/14/2026 12:44:44 AM PDT by 1035rep
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To: rxh4n1; for-q-clinton

Never fear, the fickle finger of fate has thrown a new game. Soon Dems will be showing pictures of an ICE “murderer” standing over the body of a legal immigrant, who wasn’t even their target for action. Republicans likely to stay home in droves.


17 posted on 07/14/2026 2:19:32 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question Authority: report facts and post their 'links" in your messages.)
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