Sometimes the New York Times takes a respite from its non-stop vituperation of President Trump to indulge in a side-quest of leftist hostility against another successful Republican, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The New York Times Magazine issued a 5,000-word-plus collaboration with the left-wing non-profit news site ProPublica, “Capital Punishment Is on the Decline. Except in Ron DeSantis’s Florida.” It’s written by Pamela Colloff, who “has been covering the death penalty for more than 25 years.” The online edition headline deck: “Why Is Florida Executing So Many Prisoners? – In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.” The opening lines observed strange new respect for religion, of the anti-death penalty variety. This spring, Father Dustin Feddon began waking up in the middle of the night. Heart racing, he would stand at the bathroom sink in the dark, splashing cold water on his face until the feeling passed. For about a dozen years, Father Dustin had visited prisoners on Florida’s death row as their appeals wound their way through the courts. Some had waited for decades, but the priest learned, more or less, how to accompany people through years of confinement and isolation without losing himself in their desolation. Then in January 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at an accelerated rate. What followed was the busiest period of executions in more than eight decades in a state that has long been a stronghold of capital punishment. Colloff noted grimly that “the Sunshine State accounted for 40 percent of all executions in the United States in 2025,” though the actual figures are modest: Florida has executed nine men this year, more than all other states combined. The pace has transformed death watch, which had typically been empty or held one man at a time. Now all three cells are often occupied, with the next man scheduled to die housed closest to the chamber…. She noted that President Trump “has long been one of the death penalty’s most outspoken champions, making it a cornerstone of his law-and-order agenda….having “resumed federal executions in 2020, ending a 17-year hiatus.” Nowhere has the president’s vision been pursued more relentlessly than in Florida, thanks to an unusual concentration of power in the governor’s office …. ….When I asked his office for comment, the head of communications, Alex Lanfranconi, sent a short response: “My advice to those who are seeking to avoid the death penalty in Florida would be to not murder people.” Some observers see a different calculus. DeSantis is term-limited and will leave office in January, but his political future remains an open question. Since ending his campaign for the White House in 2024, he has worked to repair his relationship with Trump; in April, Axios reported that he was lobbying for a position in the administration, with an eye toward attorney general. Few who follow Florida politics believe he has abandoned his presidential ambitions. The sheer number of death warrants, wrote the editorial boards of The Orlando Sentinel and The South Florida Sun Sentinel last summer, “gives rise to wonder: Why the sudden rush? Is it another sign that he’s planning another run for president in 2028? Would he campaign as the governor who tried to empty his state’s death row?” The local Orlando Sentinel paper mentioned above has been sometimes offensively biased in its DeSantis-related death penalty coverage. The relative invisibility of executions — the sense that they take place with little public awareness — was what prompted Melanie Verdecia, a Jacksonville attorney, to start writing a newsletter on Substack, “Tracking Florida’s Death Penalty”…. Invisibility? Supposed death row doubts make the front page of the Orlando Sentinel on a regular basis. Colloff laid on the bathos with a bare mention of the victims of the men on death row. That day, Hanna was drafting a news release, as her team did every execution day, to be sent out after Willacy was put to death. It began by acknowledging the victim at the center of the case, Marlys Sather, who was 56 when she returned to her home in Palm Bay during her lunch break one day in 1990, interrupting a burglary. Court records show that Willacy beat her, bound her and set her on fire before fleeing. These news releases try to hold two realities at once: the suffering caused by the crime and the complicated path that led there….

The elitist media put Independence Day fireworks on national TV, but afterward, they treated the smoke as a health hazard caused by President Trump. Politico's headline was "Trump plans record fireworks show, internal docs warn of smoky skies." PBS made a classic Democrat programming choice with a half-hour "news" special on Bruce Springsteen, who claimed his vicious partisan attacks should be described as "critical patriotism." We hate, because we love? He didn't offer any "critical patriotism" of Obama or Biden.   MRC Video director Eric Scheiner and CNS News managing editor Craig Bannister join the show to discuss America 250 and the politics around it. Conservatives always face the choice of liking rock stars despite their politics, and not because of it. Scheiner pointed out that actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is being trashed as a coward for backing away from making political statements.  The breaking so-called scandal on Monday is President Trump’s call to the FIFA World Cup people to inquire about the “red card” or ban on an American soccer player.  CBS was whining about the lack of integrity of the competition now. Unless America’s player was banned for tripping, it had no integrity? Craig wrote a cheeky piece asking: If America truly is the 250 year-old systemically racist, economically unjust, heartless dystopia that liberals claim, why aren’t they demanding that the government secure the border to protect migrants from coming here and ruining their lives? He suggests they know better.  On Friday, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a blatantly anti-American speech from City Hall, supposedly to mark America's 250th Birthday, accusing America of being full of racism and bigotry, where "not all are created equal. You would think this would be newsworthy, but on Friday, the Big Three evening newscasts and PBS News Hour all passed on it, while Fox News shows whipped him for disrespecting America. Speaking of Mamdani, on Friday's PBS News Hour, pundit David Brooks struck a true centrist pose, denouncing Trump's "authoritarian power grabs," and then turning around and trashing the ascendant "authoritarian wing" of the Democratic Socialists of America, insisting the Democrats need to reject the left-wing authoritarians. In reply, Jonathan Capehart claimed this trend of DSA victories is not yet "a thing," and that Mayor Mamdani is doing just fine. On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish let a guest describe President Trump's alleged corruption in accepting the gift of a plane from Qatar, but shut the guest down when he attempted to discuss Nancy Pelosi's enrichment while in office. "You're [getting into] modern politics, and I brought you guys on because it's been a time for historians." On many occasions, it seems the definition of political relevance or newsworthiness is measured by its degree of helpfulness for the Democrats. If it's inconvenient, it should be omitted.  Enjoy the podcast below. The audio is here. 

As the Democratic Party is taken over by radical democratic socialists across America, the Republican Party has begun sounding the alarm regarding the socialist shift. On the other hand, Monday's MS NOW Reports found itself more focused on attacking the Republicans. Instead of tackling the socialist takeover of their own party, host Antonia Hylton accused Trump of socialist policy this Monday in a bizarre and incoherent attack on his new “Trump Accounts”: A program using public funds and taking money from private billionaires to transfer wealth to children. The kind of setup conservatives have sometimes described as socialist. All the while, the president and his allies are hammering Democratic candidates with that very label.   On MS NOW Reports this morning, trying to defend the Dem's radical leftist shift, the cast took the bizarre route of claiming that the "Trump Accounts" program is actually kind of socialist itself. It seems they can't tell the difference between donations and confiscation. pic.twitter.com/zFfk87yQME — James Waterman (@jwatermaniv) July 6, 2026   Hylton avoided the obvious fact that the billionaire’s funds are voluntary contributions to the program, and not the seizure of their wealth like the radical Democrats endorse. She glossed over all the good this program will do in order to unsuccessfully try and make Trump look like a hypocrite. Later, political analyst Molly Jong-Fast would even try to compare the program to Zohran Mamdani’s socialist policies in New York City: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's a little on the nose, right? And again, this is the thing. So many of these programs and- and you hear this, Zohran talks about this. They're free buses. They're what New York just enacted, universal Pre-K and childcare. MS NOW didn’t stop with frivolous accusations of hypocrisy, however. They had hypocrisy of their own to broadcast. Jong-Fast would try and pretend that the Democrats were in need of defense against these Republican attacks: JONG-FAST: Part of the problem with Democrats has been this taking the high road. And when you're in a world where the mainstream media is so small, it it falls to Democrats to narrate what's happening, to narrate the corruption, to narrate how Trump is comparing himself to autocrats, and then to give advice, you know, to sort of explain what they want to do. The poor tiny mainstream media, so weak and frail that they can’t even defend the Democrats! Unbelievably ironic that the massive media network actively defending the Democrats would try and claim themselves to be tiny and struggling. Then on top of that to claim someone needs to call out Trump, as if their network doesn’t slander Trump constantly. They even asserted there were no communists among the Democrats. Hylton claimed: “To be clear, though, not a single democratic primary candidate who’s won this cycle is a communist. Joe Walsh echoed: “There are no communists running for office right now. I mean, take that lie head on and punch back.” They ignored the fact that Graham Platner proclaimed he was a communist on Reddit a few years back, and Darializa Avila Chevalier was exposed covering up a ton of communist tweets. Speaking of slandering Trump, the hypocrisy continues when Joe Walsh steps up to the plate. While being up in arms about the Republicans’ accusations of communism against the Democratic party, he repeatedly accuses President Trump of being a fascist: Trump is literally a fascist. Point to one thing: ICE. Masked federal thugs on our streets lawlessly abusing the constitutional rights of immigrants and citizens. My god, talk about that. Talk about everything Trump's doing that is fascist.   While complaining about the Republicans calling Democrats communists, and how Americans don't know what "fascist" means, Joe Walsh hypocritically accuses Trump of fascism, continuing to devalue the word in the process. You're literally the cause of the problem, Joe! pic.twitter.com/9Rgz1vxVdx — James Waterman (@jwatermaniv) July 6, 2026   It’s obviously hypocritical to be mad about your opponent’s political accusations only to accuse him immediately after, but Walsh doesn’t stop there. He goes on to claim, “most Americans don't know what communism or fascism is.” If this is true, it’s the fault of people like Joe Walsh, people who accuse anything they don’t like of being fascist. Like the boy who cried wolf, the left have drained all meaning from the word fascist with its rampant overuse. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read. MS NOW Reports July 6, 2026 11:00:26 AM Eastern (...) ANTONIA HYLTON: Trump accounts are like a college or retirement fund. But for most babies born this year through December 2028, there is an initial $1,000 deposit funded in part by private donors like the founder of Dell and distributed by the federal government. So, a program using public funds and taking money from private billionaires to transfer wealth to children. The kind of setup conservatives have sometimes described as socialist. All the while, the president and his allies are hammering Democratic candidates with that very label. Actually going even further this Independence Day weekend by inaccurately equating the progressive movement to communism. [Cuts to video] DONALD TRUMP: There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. It's the enemy of the constitution. You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both. America will never be a communist country. Won't happen. Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world, only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America. We're not going to let it happen. It's like a cancer. You got to cut it out. You got to cut it out fast. [Cuts back to live] HYLTON: There are clear echoes here of the red scare rhetoric that followed the first world war and defined the cold war. To be clear, though, not a single democratic primary candidate who’s won this cycle is a communist. But there is a shift going on within the party, with many candidates leaning further left and challenging the establishment, sometimes making it harder for others to find their lane.  Just look at what's happening in the Michigan senate race. State Senator Mallory McMorrow just suspended her bid after failing to successfully define a balance of some sort between the establishment choice and the progressive pick.  Let's get right to our panel with MS NOW political analyst Molly Jong-Fast and former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, who's since left the GOP and become a Democrat. It's good to see both of you guys this morning.  So, Molly, if it is communism, when Democrats fight for the expansion of public benefits, what do we call it when Trump creates a policy, a program that takes money from billionaires and then redistributes it to families, to children around the country? MOLLY JONG-FAST: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's a little on the nose, right? And again, this is the thing. So many of these programs and- and you hear this, Zohran talks about this. They're free buses. They're what New York just enacted, universal Pre-K and childcare. And we see that in New Mexico too. Those are- you know, New Mexico is a great example. They had money from oil and gas, and they used it for free childcare. That's a state that has a high rate of poverty, and the idea here is that mothers and fathers can go to work and have children.  Now you have a country where they want, you know, the birth rate is in decline. And they're, you know, there’s constantly these conversations about how to get people to have more kids. And here is a great option. So that's where we are at this moment. And look, I think it's- you know, remember, Trump runs on fear and he thinks that this is a scary word and that it will get people scared and get them voting for him. But a lot of people feel that capitalism, though it's great and it works, and, and I'm a big fan, that some limits on it, like, you know, higher taxes for people with unspendable wealth, that's really an 80/20 issue. So that's where we are, I think. HYLTON: Joe, I want your take on how successful this kind of message could be outside of Trump's base and, and existing supporters. I ask because there's a new Washington Post analysis of data from the bipartisan National Conference on Citizenship. It shows a +43 percent influx of Republicans and right wing figures invoking communism since last summer, now averaging about 600 times a week. House Speaker Mike Johnson is one of them, and I want you to take a listen to some of his comments. [Cuts to video] MIKE JOHNSON: There are many Mamdanis popping up running for Congress around the country, and you better be very serious about this. This is a serious threat to our whole system of government. These are Marxists. It's communism, socialism. We have to fight this. We're no longer just in an election cycle. We were saying it was common sense versus crazy. Now it's common sense versus communism and everybody needs to wake up. HYLTON: So, Joe, do you think that kind of message resonates, again, with anyone who's outside of the preexisting MAGA base? JOE WALSH: It shouldn't work, but it will if Democrats don't fight back. And that's what Trump and Mike Johnson and all of my former Republican colleagues are counting on, is that, like in the past, Republicans will throw out b.s. like this to - Molly's right - to scare people. And Democrats will just like, act above it all and not fight back. It'll work unless Democrats fight back and punch Trump figuratively in the nose. I mean, he's trying to scare Americans about communists. My god, he's a fascist. Antonia, this is why it works. The Democrats got tagged back in the day with. They all want to defund the police, which was b.s. But the Democrats didn't push back. Trump won to a large degree in 2024 because he threw out all the scare tactics about transgender Americans, and the Harris campaign didn't fight back.  This communism thing will stick with people outside the MAGA base if Democrats think they're better than this and they don't need to get down in the mud and fight back against this, that's what Democrats have to do. HYLTON: Molly, what does fighting back look like? Because there is the reality there are these primaries going on. So there is this intellectual sort of raging debate happening within the Democratic party itself. But then there's also just Trump's own actions on this front. I mean, he has this rhetoric that he's using to attack the left, but he is constantly sort of flirting with, and saying that he likes, for example, XI Jinping. That guy runs a communist country. Then I want you to take a listen to some of his comments in a recent interview with my colleagues at CNBC about the stake the government has taken in Intel. Listen to this: [Cuts to video] TRUMP: Intel came in. They had a problem. I said, I can solve your problem, but I want 10% of the company. They said, what? I said, I want 10% of the company. And he agreed to me. And the stock has gone through. So I think we made $60 or $70 billion in eight months. Do I get credit for that? No. Somebody said, that's not very American. I said, no, I think it is very American, actually. [Cuts back to live] HYLTON: Molly, what would Republicans have done if Barack Obama had done something like that? JONG-FAST: Right. I mean, look, that's what this is about. And I think part of it, I actually totally agree with Joe. Part of the problem with Democrats has been this taking the high road. And when you're in a world where the mainstream media is so small, it it falls to Democrats to narrate what's happening, to narrate the corruption, to narrate how Trump is comparing himself to autocrats, and then to give advice, you know, to sort of explain what they want to do.  I mean, one of the great examples, I think, where Zohran has been really effective is at sort of narrating the things he wants government to do for people in New York City, because it's one thing to say like, you know, they want socialism, they want this, they want that. But then for him to say, you know, “I want you to have fast free buses.” Like that is something that's an 80/20 issue. Who wants a slow bus? You know, who is like, I don't pay enough for public transportation.  And so I think that's a really good example of the way the Democrats have to push back. But I do think Joe is totally right. If you don't meet them on every single, you know, every single one of these fearmongering tactics, everything, every single one of these phrases has to be responded to, either in the negative or in some kind of other pushback, because otherwise you are- If you don't respond, it just sticks. HYLTON: Joe, do you think that there is a Democrat who's doing a good job of this? I ask because I think I have a graphic of all the different kinds of Democrats- actually, it's not even just Democrats who have been called things like communists and marxists by Trump in the past.  Adam Schiff definitely would not qualify as a communist. Kamala Harris: not a communist. Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Liz Cheney, General Mark Milley. I mean, you get the point here, Joe, but is there someone who you think is pushing back on this kind of framing and doing a good job of kind of calling out how little teeth it all has? WALSH: I think some of these newer Democratic candidates who are fighting. Democratic voters want fighters. Look Antonia, I come from the right. We always believed on the right that we could scare Americans with these culture war issues, and Democrats would never fight back. And generally, that's always worked. So what I've been pleading with my new party is: fight back. The Democratic party isn't communist. There are no communists running for office right now. I mean, take that lie head on and punch back.  Trump is literally a fascist. Point to one thing: ICE. Masked federal thugs on our streets lawlessly abusing the constitutional rights of immigrants and citizens. My god, talk about that. Talk about everything Trump's doing that is fascist. Knowing most Americans don't know what communism or fascism is, but you've got to get in the ring and fight, throw off your coat.  And again, don't think like- don't think like you're speaking to people who listen to MS NOW. Speak like you're- you're talking to regular Americans out there and get in Trump's face and punch him back on this stuff.

The left loves to crow about how conservatives ban books, equating the removal of gay pornography from elementary school libraries to the Nazi book burnings of the 1930s. But one look at their real-life practices, and you’ll see that the liberals are the real book banners of our time. Amazon, run by notably left-of-center executives, has a history of banning books that they don’t want the public to have easy access to. The latest of these books was Mark Dice’s bestseller, The War on Conservatives, which was recently banned from the site but then restored after the company received backlash. In his YouTube video discussing the ban, Dice, an independent media analyst, explained that the book “wasn't just banned. It was dumped down the memory hole, preventing [him] from listing copies, preventing anybody who read the book from listing used copies for sale on the Amazon marketplace, deleting the thousands of five-star ratings, the hundreds of written reviews, making it as if the book just never even existed.”      Dice’s book details how “Conservatives are under attack on numerous different fronts by a well-funded, highly organized Marxist movement. The war is being waged in the public schools and universities, in corporate America, the media, and in the streets.”  From that description, it’s hard to see how Amazon could ban the book, which had thousands of five-star reviews and reached number four on the overall bestseller list, on the grounds that “the content might result in a disappointing customer experience,” which was all the justification that Amazon’s Executive Customer Relations Department gave in response to Dice’s appeal. Dice then reached out to conservative news outlet The Daily Caller, who asked Amazon for comment. Shortly thereafter, The War on Conservatives was restored to the site. “This title was removed in error and is now available for sale,” Amazon’s spokesperson told The Caller. In a statement to NewsBusters, Dice said, “I think the book came to the attention of someone at Amazon who was personally and ideologically opposed to its content. Between the title, the cover art, and the arguments presented in the book, they decided it shouldn't be allowed on the platform and decided to ban it.” Adding: “When Amazon first banned the book, I assumed it had to be some kind of mistake that would be corrected through the normal appeals process. But when they rejected my initial appeal, it became obvious this wasn't simply an automated error or the result of a bot mistakenly flagging the book.” It wasn’t just new copies. “It wasn't just delisted. They banned the book. They deleted the listing with several thousand five-star ratings and hundreds of written reviews, and even deleted the used copies that third-party sellers had listed for sale,” he explained. Dice was very direct with his thoughts about Amazon’s excuse: “Amazon's claim that the book was removed because of an "error" is beyond ridiculous. Quite frankly, they’re full of shit.” We in the conservative movement have seen this song and dance before from big companies like Amazon and Google, who continuously try to repress and silence our voices on the public stage. Amazon infamously banned the 1973 French dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, about Indian migrants moving to France and destabilizing Western society. They also banned Ryan T. Anderson’s 2025 book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. In both cases, and also in Dice’s, Amazon quickly caved and restored the books after public backlash.  Amazon very rarely delists books promoting a leftist agenda. If they did, you could imagine the outcry that would come from the liberals and their media. They would do what they’re currently trying with CBS and Bari Weiss, attacking a company for supposedly repressing their views.  So, the next time the left accuses the right of banning books and attacking free speech, just remember which side celebrated shooting a man in the neck just for engaging in civil debate. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: Mark Dice YouTube, "Amazon Banned My Book!" 7/1/26 0:00 - 4:04 MARK DICE: Well, my book, The War on Conservatives, which came out in November 2023 and immediately broke into the Amazon Top 10 Bestseller list, reaching number four, was banned by the book giant two weeks ago. Stay tuned and I'll explain why. I'm just going public with it now. It wasn't just banned. It was dumped down the memory hole, preventing me from listing copies, preventing anybody who read the book from listing used copies for sale on the Amazon marketplace, deleting the thousands of five-star ratings, the hundreds of written reviews, making it as if the book just never even existed. Luckily, the listing and all that information was saved in the internet archive, the Wayback Machine.  And so I came up with a four-stage plan to try to help Amazon do what was right and stop censoring my book. And so phase one was just appealing the ban.  They sent me an email and they said, "We recently reviewed your book and we found it violates our content policy."  And so I wrote a very detailed, very friendly and professional appeal, which they then denied. And so then I found the CEO's email address which is public. And so I sent another, second appeal to him that was then forwarded to the Amazon executive review team and they then later emailed me, said that they conducted their own review and they were upholding the ban.  The only explanation they gave was a ridiculous lie saying that it might be causing a ‘disappointing customer experience.’  So then I moved on to phase two and started reaching out to my contacts in the media.  And big shout out to The Daily Caller which wrote this great article, ‘Amazon Delists Conservative YouTuber's Book Over Potentially ‘Disappointing Customer Experience,’ Then Claims Error,’ and goes into the details.  Now, I'm going to leave this article linked up in the description and in the comments below. Copy and paste this article and tweet it to all of the big news outlets in the media and the conservative media, all the big podcasters, all the big YouTubers because apparently none of the conservative media outlets other than the Daily Caller care about little old me, because they were the only one, at least so far, that published this story. It wasn't until this journalist reached out to Amazon's PR team or their media relations department asking for a quote and an explanation of why they're banning another book, another bestseller, that they miraculously discovered that they had just made a mistake.  It was just a little error because, well, they knew that it was about to turn into a big news story. Just like when they banned The Camp of the Saints, I think it was about a month ago when the book came back into print in English. They banned that. That's a novel from the '70s in France about how a bunch of migrants - million migrants or so, travel to France and ruin the culture there. So that's offensive. That's xenophobic. That got dumped down the memory hole, too.  But then after social media and some media outcry, they just miraculously realized they made a mistake and reinstated it. And of course, the liberal media was very upset once that book came back into print. The Atlantic complained that 'The Return of MAGA’s Favorite Forbidden Book' is just absolutely terrible.  And then they banned When Harry Became Sally back in 2021. That made some headlines. Even Ted Cruz started tweeting about it. It's a book that's critical of the gender bending agenda. And then, miraculously, last year, they reinstated it after the media pressure had died down. And then they issued a statement saying that they had re-evaluated it. They, you know, once construed it as 'hate speech.' So probably what happened is some executive at Amazon probably realized that one of their children came down with the woke mind virus and then realized 'You know what? Maybe we should actually allow books on the world's biggest bookstore to actually discuss these issues.'

Politico dropped a new Graham Platner bombshell Monday afternoon that ex-girlfriend Jenny Racicot alleged the Maine Democrat senatorial candidate “forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections.” MS NOW surprisingly was on it within 30 minutes and made clear that, aside from one guest arguing he stay in because Brett Kavanaugh “raped” Christine Blasey Ford, they have had enough of their now-former darling. Notably and separately, The New York Times spoke to Racicot for a June 4 story, but reportedly refused to include this allegation despite Racicot volunteering that information. But back on MSNOW, their coverage began with The Moment as host Katy Tur had congressional correspondent Mychael Schnell summarize the Politico piece and remind viewers Platner had a week from Monday to drop out for Maine Democrats to replace him on the November ballot. “The sentiment that I was hearing was..Democrats didn’t see him as the perfect candidate, that there were these concerns about these indiscretions and these — these poor reports. But at the end of the day, Maine is such an important pickup opportunity for them, and he was their candidate. So, they were letting it go by the wayside,” she added. The first real sign of trouble on this liberal flagship cable network was The Weeknight co-host and longtime Swamp nepobaby Luke Russert, who said “the person who made the accusations was very conflicted about coming forward” because she’s a fellow progressive. Because of that, he argued, “I don’t see how he can be the nominee for senator in Maine for the Democratic Party.” MSNOW host Luke Russert on the Politico article about Graham Platner: “I don’t see how he can be the nominee for senator in Maine for the Democratic Party.” “Well, I think something that jumped out to me in the article, which I just read, is that the person who made the… pic.twitter.com/BSOMDxgZLg — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 “I think what you have here, though, is a pickup opportunity is incredibly important in Maine for the party if they want to get control of the Senate...but now is looking that it’s significantly worse than what was advertised, and especially for a party that was so intertwined with Me Too, and believing women, it looks very hypocritical if there is not, I think, a real examination of him moving forward,” he concluded. New York Times columnist Charles Blow went in the other direction with a serious, double-dose of whataboutism. Once he deployed standard platitudes that Racicot deserves to say whatever it is she wants, Blow whined “Democrats and Republicans are playing by a completely separate, separate rulebooks [sic]” because “Donald Trump was found liable of sexually abusing a woman” and “Christine Blasey Ford gave, I thought, compelling testimony against Brett Kavanaugh about what she said — she was raped.” NYT columnist Charles Blow DEFENDS Graham Platner staying in the race after the Politico story alleging sexual assault, arguing the GOP has stuck behind Kavanaugh despite Blasey Ford’s “compelling testimony” that “she was raped”.... “Well, the first thing I always want to say in… pic.twitter.com/LQssxeKB38 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 Going to Deadline: White House, fill-in host Antonia Hylton solemnly began with the “deeply disturbing new report, published in the last hour about Graham Platner, is shaking up the crucial U.S. Senate race in Maine” with a “new bombshell” in Politico. Hylton’s panel consisted of Schnell as well as former fellow The Weekend: Prime co-host Ayman Mohyeldin and far-left pundit/columnist Molly Jong-Fast. Hylton noticed Platner’s video denial included verbiage “in the past tense as though he’s about to...suspend this campaign” while Mohyeldin blasted the Nazi tattoo guy as having “a credibility problem” as the litany of denials have come with an “open-ended” tinge to leave open the possibility of more damaging stories. It's all coordinated. It's all by design. Listen to how this MSNOW panel talked about Graham Platner. *Now* they want him gone pic.twitter.com/JEzZZM5tHA — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 Once you add in Jong-Fast’s admission that “this is not a candidate who is ready for prime time in any stretch of the imagination,” and she’s “baffled that the vetting and the vetting process for this candidate” failed so spectacularly, you have a liberal media ready to throw him overboard after months of standing by him. Within that larger clip, however, were a series of vile attacks we have to address. First, Mohyeldin took aim at Lyndsey Fifield, another Platner ex-girlfriend who spoke to The New York Times, falsely claiming Racicot was the first ex to have brought “receipts” or “told other people about” him and thus has “so much more credibility.” PANTS ON FIRE: MSNOW’s Ayman Moyheldin falsely claims Jenny Racicot’s allegations to Politico about Graham Platner are the first time an ex-girlfriend of his brought “receipts” or “told other people about” him, thus she has “so much more credibility” than others. Fact-check:… pic.twitter.com/UAOq6fcUq8 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026   Fact-check: Pants on fire. Fifield offered friends, texts, and diaries as well. The Times never spoke to her friends. Hylton also set Racicot apart as more credible because “she’s clearly wrestling with the consequences of her coming forward, of her putting her reputation, her own personal story out there” and “you can tell this is something that she’s dealing with in real time and that she cares, it seems, about our democracy.” But Hylton also charged Racicot with more credibility in comparison to other exes because, in Fifield’s case, she was “associated with right-wing politics.” MSNOW’s Antonia Hylton rips @LyndseyFifield, arguing she was less credible than Jenny Racicot because she’s “associated with right-wing politics” pic.twitter.com/jcHXqqCDOT — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 News flash: Believe all women is one of the biggest lies in modern politics. Next, pay attention to how these leftists are suddenly aghast Platner lied to them (click “expand”): HYLTON: You know, Ayman, when Graham Platner was on with our colleague Chris Hayes, he told him that nothing else was coming. Chris asked him directly, is there something else out there? Will there be more allegations? And he said, no. He brushed it off. MOYHELDIN: This is the crisis that Graham Platner has created by his own doing, because throughout the allegations that have come forward over the course of his campaign, and there have been a few different buckets of allegations, whether it was the Nazi tattoo, whether he knew what it was, the — the previous allegations of misconduct with women, and now the sexual assault allegations, per Politico. Every time there is an allegation or a question about his conduct, he either says it was because of, as in the case of the tattoos, he was drunk. He didn’t know what he was doing. It’s attributable to mental challenges that he had or mental health challenges that he had. But then he would try to close the chapter by saying there shouldn’t be anything else to come out. As you said, when he had that interview, he said there were no more allegations. And for somebody who has had a troubled past and has acknowledged that he’s had a troubled past and is a flawed candidate, there have been more than, you know, ample moments for him to come forward in full disclosure and say, there have been a lot of mistakes that I have made, with as many specifics as you can, so that the people who are voting for him, the citizens and the residents of Maine, are aware of what those allegations are. Now, does that mean he has to come forward and name every single person? No, that’s — that’s not the case. But there’s always this sense when Graham Platner came forward to defend himself, that his apologies while he tried to project them as being sincere, always kept the door open, that there still may be more allegations, and at some point you have to wonder, when is it up? You know, enough is enough in terms of all of these problems that are — keep — that are being, you know, coming forward as a result of the reporting[.] Hylton and Mohyeldin actually had the gall to argue viewers should feel bad for the Democrats who “have staked their reputation by standing alongside Graham Platner, people who have endorsed him and have stood by him” as well as primary voters “who so many of them have been crying out, wanting change, desperate for a younger person to represent them in the Senate, someone with new ideas to bring to the table.”  MSNOW wants you to feel bad for the Democrats who endorsed, campaigned with, and stood beside Graham Platner and Maine Democratic primary voters “who so many of them have been crying out, wanting change, desperate for a younger person to represent them in the Senate, someone with… pic.twitter.com/1XxAgWCCww — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026 Once Schnell further explained the process the Maine Democratic Party would use to replace Platner if he did quit, Mohyeldin gave his final thoughts by arguing “you can make a compelling argument that you have to try to find somebody within the Democratic establishment in Maine that represents closest to Graham Platner viewpoints” instead of who finished second in the primary, Governor Janet Mills. As for Hylton, the supposed journalist agreed because “Mills does have these serious, you know, vulnerabilities, both because voters were concerned about her age,” had “different conflicts with Native American communities,” and “really didn’t travel the state to the extent that Graham Platner did.” In other words, Platner better be replaced by a fellow socialist...or else! To see the relevant MSNOW transcripts from July 6, click here (for The Moment) and here (for Deadline: White House).