The Democrats have a massive gender gap so the logic of putting up someone like Graham Platner in Maine, a Madison Avenue liberal’s idea of what working class looks like, is winning back men.
But after the sexting scandal, the math has shifted so that Dems have to bet that they’re not going to lose more women, a group they’re couniting on, than they’re going to gain men, a group they’ve been losing to Republicans. And the problem is that there’s something gross and off-putting about Platner. It might be the Nazi tattoo, the smelly hobo look, the insistence that his wife release a video defending him for sexisting, the campaign and its allies intimidating a female whistleblower, the other video in which his wife emphasizes that their fertility problems aren’t his fault, the lies about the sexting, and the long trail of bigoted Reddit posts.
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