Democrats switch out candidates all the time. The last time was when they illegally replaced Toricelli with Lautenberg in the NJ Senate race when it looked like the Torch might lose.
Colmes should be careful if he values his health. Of course, it could be he knows the FBI will not investigate.
If the FBI starts and investigation..it will just shut down any enquiries until it is complete..sometime in 2018. It would just be a stall delay hide operation.
There are investigations and then there are “investigations”. My sense if an investigation sees the light of day, some agent will be provided a very narrow path to follow for instance, go ask them if they did anything improper. They will take that to the US Attorney who will ask what are your results and the answer will be were were not able to cooberate any of the allegations and the subject denied any wrong doing. Also more likely than not, it will be done by the civil rights division rather than the public integrity unit.
Case closed and filed.