During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is just discovering who he is, has a dicey past, and “doesn’t need a term in the Senate. He needs a gap year in Costa Rica”, “I would still urge the folks in Maine to vote for him, for two reasons: One, we need to restore balance in our government and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that. And two, get used to it. America is a country filled with a lot of broken, horribly-educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people.”
Maher began by saying that Platner “has a backstory that screams, don’t ask. Now I don’t judge Graham Platner, because I’m just learning who he is. Problem is, so is he. What I do know is he served his country in the Marines, in war, and you can never discount how big that is. But then there’s the sexting while married, scary behavior so say some of his exes, old posts about how he’s a Communist and all cops are bastards and black people don’t tip.”
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