this guy is such a fuckin amateur

Maine voters decide, not DU pundits!

You think this seat is about Maine ONLY?

too.

We're not going to stop posting about it.

The Maine voters would not be choosing the candidare.

Conditions for withdrawal? He hasn't got a lot of leverage there.

for the party to nominate someone else. And there is less than a week left for him to do it.

He can't be forcibly removed.

That kinda says it all rights there, if the reporting is accurate.

They were both endorsed by Bernie Sanders.

“Madam, we’ve already established what you are. Now we are merely haggling over the price.”

Accused rapist threatens not to withdraw until his demands are met.

🤔

Meet my demands or the party gets it!

Hostage situation

They can't expel him from anything (like they could Swalwell) since he isn't in anything.

Not a great look.

I must have missed that. Must have been a remarkably fast trial.

Until then, they are accused rapists.

thank you.
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And no, you become a rapist when you RAPE somebody.

However, only two people (usually) know that -the victim and the rapist.

The rest of us have to wait for the facts to be sorted and a conviction before we start calling people rapists.

Apropos of nothing, maybe, what's your opinion of Bill Clinton? Is he a rapist?

Yet has never been convicted.

No one doubted the accusers.

If it's [Redacted], then he's been adjudicated of sexual assault. "Rapist" is good enough in that case.

Now, maybe someone somewhere in these posts has doubted the women. I didn't and I don't. What I do want to see is convincing and verifiable evidence in context. The evidence so far is helpful in advancing the claim, but not really in context.

And we were calling him a rapist long before the adjudication. If we don’t like the person, it seems the court of public opinion is plenty due process.

I have seen many posts questioning the woman’s accusations.
Why did she wait? How much was she paid? Accusations she’s working with AIPAC. Accusations she’s working with Republicans.

Worst of all, I have seen people saying even if the accusations are proven to be true, we should support him anyway because Republicans would do that.

For instance, none of these imply the allegations aren't true:

All such questions are directly towards the credibility of the accuser and indirectly denying her accusations

Definitely not a criminal conviction. But keep on making excuses.

And he's President of the United States. What does that tell you about voters?

Let Platner be sued, then. If he loses, I'll call him an adjudicated rapist, too. If he wins...well, I guess it'll just disappear for most people.

After all he was just an accused rapist.

But most of all, he was a lousy judge. That should have disqualified him.

But does that mean the allegations against him of sexual assault should have been ignored since they were just accusations about something from years earlier. A number m of the things I’ve seen here today questioning Platner’s accuser — such the assertion that her accusation should be discounted because she waited so long to come forward— sound a lot like the statements made to discredit Kavanaugh’s accuser.

I certainly never said ignore any SA allegations. In fact, I've said the opposite. I've said every one of them should be investigated.

As for what others have said, I don't believe I'm answerable for their statements or attitudes.

While it is curious that the accuser waited until now to come out with the rape allegation, that means nothing on its own. People are certainly free to look into that since the allegation could have been lodged when he announced rather than after he was nominated.

But that has absolutely nothing to do with allegation itself or its veracity. Those are separate issues.

This is why women stay silent.

whoever the DNC thinks has the closest chance of winning, and that they can vet within an inch of their life over the next week?

I have disliked this guy from the start, and he only gets worse every time he opens his mouth.

Those are the rules, since he got the nomination. He has a week to do it.

After all, they are always complaining about the DNC screwing up, not doing the right thing, supporting the wrong candidates, etc.

I'm not a DNC hater , yet even I think it would be a terrible idea to let the DNC pick a nominee to replace Platner.

No more DNC, DNCC, third-way whatever.

Just what we need, even if they can run Collins out of office.

Mainers voted for, and the whole country needs, a PROGRESSIVE. And a FIGHTER.

"Yes, I've been credibly accused of rape, but you have to do what I say or I won't step down."

The national and State parties have already told him to go.

Fuck him, he needs to go and now.

The primary is over and he won it. No one can make him drop out.

Do any of you defenders have daughters?

probably 0

Someone above said that it's good he's leaving this up to the people of Maine. I do agree with that statement.
I also think he should be replaced by someone who has the views and policies that he has. That's what made him so popular and people want that bad. Getting away from that and replacing him with someone who's a moderate would not go well and I can't see how it would.

tel him they will replace him with xxx... he withdraws..... replace hime with whoever they want

Is not someone with that kind of a policy agenda there will be no chance to win that seat. With that — his supporters will be willing to work to get a Democrat elected and that is what we all want. Nominating a safe candidate with an incremental agenda and not recognized as a fighter is dooming any chance and will only give the consultants and pundits a chance to blow it,

That makes no sense whatsoever. It's not like there's never been a political race anywhere in which a state's voters had to choose "the lesser of the evils." By the way, I am not a Maine resident--but I do want to see the Democrats win this seat.

If he does withdraw, then Governor Mills will get it. Will some of Platner's supporters just stay home?

Now, regardless of what Platner decides to do in this situation, as many have already indicated, this does show a definite double standard. The Felon and Ken Paxton--just to name two quickly--had as much baggage, but still won? Is it right for voters in Maine to hold Platner to a higher standard than they did the Felon and that Texas voters have done for Paxton the times he has been elected AG and in this spring's Republican primary?

it doesn't mean that governor Mills will get the nomination. Party will have to nominate, and they don't have to stick with those who were on the ballot.

Not Platner or anybody else.

Will he stay in to spoil the race?

He has about a week to drop out.