‘The View’ to host battle with Graham Platner after scandal-plagued Dem wins Maine primary
After Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner won Tuesday’s Democratic primary, “The View” co-hosts locked horns Wednesday about whether to put aside concerns about his many controversies and support him.
“If you show me that you have so much hatred in your heart, that you can erase entire groups of people and name them, fill in the blanks, they have, that Nazi painting that they say has been closed and said that he did not know what it meant, but many former girlfriends said that he used to call himself the Totenkopf, which is the symbol of Sarah’s Nazis,” said Haines of Sarah.
“You have shown us who you are.”
“This is a MeToo party. Women are suing,” she continued.
“It has not been confirmed yet, but shouldn’t we have listened to them and heard? We are actually in a period of opposition. The numbers of hatred against antisemitism and this boy proudly wore a tattoo for years, all the things he showed us and we will say them, well this time because we may agree with his policy and we can turn our heads. I can’t turn my head to other people.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin who hosts the show said, “He also made fun of wounded veterans, he has a lot of homophobic slurs that came out on the internet. The track record is really bad.”
“I know his accuser — I’ve known him for over a decade — who spoke to the New York Times,” Griffin continued.
“I believe him. I believe that what he accuses him of is honest. He denies it, but we have to pay attention.”
Griffin concluded that just because Democrats don’t approve of the current administration doesn’t mean they should engage in a “race to the bottom.”
Meanwhile, his partner Sunny Hostin, who declared last week “I’ll hold my nose” to vote for Platner if he stays in Maine, doubled down on his support.
“I don’t think Republicans, right now, can ask us to take the moral high ground,” he said.
“It’s over now, I’m sorry.”
Hostin went on to urge Democrats to “put emotions aside, let’s have a strategy, let’s get power, take the Senate, take the House and right the ship. Let’s get our country back.”
“I’m sorry, I’m a person who believes in morality, I’m a person who believes that morality is important,” he concluded.
“But because of the state of this country, I would – if I lived in Maine I would hold my nose and vote for Platner.”
Platner, a military veteran and oyster farmer backed by progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., defeated two longtime rivals in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary.
Platner has been on the defensive for the past month, amid a flurry of controversies, including fiery online comments made on Reddit, a well-publicized and now-covered tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol, recent reports that he has been sexually explicit with several women while married, and new allegations last week from ex-girlfriends of a history of rape and violent incidents.
Platner called the allegations of violence unequivocal.
Fox News Digital reached out to Platner’s campaign but did not immediately receive a response.
