Rob Flaherty

One of the single greatest political ads of all time x.com/MediumBuying/s…

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NKA LIVE: We can't believe Lindsey Graham died. PLUS: The latest with Graham Platner and @JoshShapiroPA's gunshyness with @axios' @hollyotterbein x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Well. What a day. We talk about ALL OF IT. Plus that latest with Maine with @hollyotterbein! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Jude — and I can’t stress this enough — Bellingham

I do have the misfortune of having to be on the panel with Molly Murphy, one of the most insightful people I’ve ever met, but you can watch her carry the whole thing

Let’s party

we're doing the job graphics again btw. if we missed you let us know.

@rohanspatel I think anyone intimating that you should vote for susan collins or not vote is doing a disservice!

I’m sure Maine voters appreciate Joy Reid’s permission slip to stay home if some vague ideological twin of Platner is not nominated. @Rob_Flaherty - hope you’re doing tweets about these folks who claim to care about winning majorities.

@rohanspatel Thanks for being a loyal viewer

Does kind of feel odd that @Rob_Flaherty couldn’t just say…“Jake Auchincloss was right. I was wrong.”

.@Rob_Flaherty reacts to Graham Platner saying none of the allegations happened. FLAHERTY: Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck him. Fuck that. How much do you expect from us to go along with your stupid bullshit? Fuck you, fuck this guy, fuck the whole fucking thing. Crazy."

🚨 TWO DEMOCRATS REACT LIVE TO GRAHAM PLATNER DROPPING OUT 🚨 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🚨 TWO DEMOCRATS REACT LIVE TO GRAHAM PLATNER DROPPING OUT 🚨 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Okay well. We're gonna go back live in a second. x.com/grahamformaine…

NKA LIVE Platner on the clock and WTF is happening in Michigan (w/ Sam Brodey) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

NKA LIVE Platner on the clock and WTF is happening in Michigan (w/ Sam Brodey) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Fuckin delusional

And the winner of the Bad Take Award™️ is...

I think people have heard enough of my opining about Maine for one cycle, but before I shift my focus fully to the other 49 states, a few scattered thoughts on Graham Platner: 1) There are a lot of people who bear responsibility for this. The team that didn’t vet him properly. The people (like me) who bought his schtick hook line and sinker and used their platforms to not just promote him early on, and stuck with him after just an insane amount of obvious red flags for months on end — I should have known better, and I for one will be doing a lot of introspection (and hopefully lesson-learning) on how I got to that place of cognitive dissonance. Schumer for clearing (what could have been a very talented field) for Mills, who clearly didn’t want to run. Mills for announcing so late. Maine’s Democratic primary voters for sticking with him throughout all of it and giving him the most votes than any other Democratic Senate candidate in the history of the state. But responsibility lies the most with the man himself. Not only did he know that he did these things before he ran, not only did he have the hubris to think that they wouldn’t be unearthed (especially the digital footprint stuff in the year 2026) — he repeatedly insisted that nothing else would come out. Delusion, denial, whatever you want to call it. It’s not only heinous, it almost cost us a Senate seat and potentially a majority. 2) Jenny Racicot is an absolute hero. So are the people that helped her prepare for this moment. What happened to her is unimaginably horrifying, and then having the courage to stand up after so many women in her position over the decades have been ripped to shreds once they come forward. I simply cannot imagine. The debt can never be repaid. 3) Thank god Maine Democrats have a mechanism to remove candidates this late. Republicans were clearly sitting on this (and likely other devastating oppo) for right after the July 13 deadline, and now pretty much any other candidate should have a better shot at beating Susan Collins (inshallah). 4) If folks need to do the “I told you so” thing, that’s fine. Knock yourself out. Take a week or two. Get it out of your system. We need to lock in for the general here after Maine Dems pick a new nominee. But to act like poor vetting is uniquely a problem for the left wing of the party is beyond laughable. You wanna throw stones, we can unearth Eric Swalwell, Andrew Cuomo — and even Joe Biden in the run up to the 2024 debate. Enjoy your dunks, but just know that the bill will inevitably come due in the other direction, whether it’s 2028, 2030, or another cycle soon thereafter. 5) Graham tapped into some very real anger in the electorate. He did inspire people. That shouldn’t be lost on all of this. The man himself is *deeply* flawed, but the foundation of message remains appealing, at least to Mainers. We are seeing that across the country. We need to figure out — as a party, not just a progressive-left anti-establishment faction — a way to harness that without compromising our values as human beings and Democrats. Fin.