After considerable deliberation subsequent to new scandalous revelations, Maine’s Democrat Senate nominee Graham Platner has decided to suspend his campaign. His lengthy announcement video triggered a wide range of reactions, including harsh condemnation on what many would consider to be a friendly outlet. Watch as MS NOW’s Catherine Rampell, sitting in for Chris Hayes, absolutely nukes Platner after running his suspension video: BRUTAL: Watch as MS NOW's Catherine Rampell buries Graham Platner over his campaign suspension video GRAHAM PLATNER: From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank all of you. And keep fighting. We're gonna win someday. CATHERINE RAMPELL: Well, that was Graham Platner officially… pic.twitter.com/KGIRE4jcAt — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 9, 2026 MS NOW ALL IN WITH CHRIS HAYES 7/8/26 8:23 PM GRAHAM PLATNER: From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank all of you. And keep fighting. We're gonna win someday. CATHERINE RAMPELL: Well, that was Graham Platner officially announcing that he is dropping off of the ballot for Maine Senate or for, excuse me, for federal Senate from Maine- but taking zero responsibility for any of the scandals and more troubling things in his past that have destroyed that campaign, instead blaming, let's see, corporate media, the political establishment, lots of hate for the political establishment, saying that “We banded together. We did it the way we were told we were supposed to make change, and we won. And now they are not going to let us have it.”  So lots of finger-pointing and blame and not taking any responsibility. Note that whoever he conceives of as the political establishment, you do have many of his once allies, including Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna, also calling for him to drop out- people who believe many of the same policy ideas believe in many of the same policy ideas that Graham Platner himself says that he was taken down for. He also said during that ten-minute video that “All we were asking for was healthcare, was to end the genocide, to use our taxpayer dollars at home to uplift our communities instead of waging war overseas. We were asking for a fair system. We are asking for an end to the corruption.” So, lots of allegations that he was being taken out by nefarious forces that are forcing him to suspend his campaign rather than the drip, drip, drip of scandal after scandal that has dogged his campaign and that have littered the last few months with red flags. Rampell is right. Herr Oystergruppenführer devoted a lot of time to blaming his woes on many external factors- whether it was “the system”, the women who were victimized by his multiple aggressions, or Israel. As Rampell rightly notes, Platner never took personal responsibility for his behaviors and for the impacts of his failure to disclose them. It is interesting that Platner blamed “the media” for his woes. If anything, the media coddled him and put him in a protective cocoon. His Totenkopf tattoo should have been a disqualifier but the Elitist Media looked the other way. In fact, the tattoo wasn’t mentioned until the message board scandal broke. And when The New York Times published the accounts of former girlfriends, the focus and scrutiny shifted away from Platner and to the conservative ex. Rather than scrutinizing and vetting Platner, the media coddled him and hid his glaring defects from public view. His failure is also their failure.