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OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

With apologies to baseball legend Yogi Berra, the Democratic Party finds itself experiencing \u201cdeja vu all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During his 2004 presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, sought to explain away his change of heart on an $87 billion supplemental funding bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Campaigning in West Virginia on March 16, 2004, Mr. Kerry said, \u201cI actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though his about-face was predicated on changed circumstances, the quote was ridiculed by critics as an embarrassing flip-flop.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward to today, and numerous prominent Democrats \u2014 most notably Sen. Elizabeth Warren, coincidentally Mr. Kerry\u2019s fellow Massachusetts Democrat \u2014 find themselves similarly flip-flopping, having to explain why they were for scandal-plagued Maine Democrat Graham Platner before they were against him.<\/p>\n

Mr. Platner won the party\u2019s nomination for U.S. Senate and the right to take on five-term Republican Sen. Susan M. Collins a month ago, on June 9, despite a slew of scandals that had been exposed.<\/p>\n

Though sufficient to sink any other candidate for office, none of the scandals to that point had cost Mr. Platner the support of the far-left base of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

One Maine Democratic supporter went so far as to say that although the huge Nazi skull tattoo on Mr. Platner\u2019s chest would not cost him her vote, a hypothetical Israeli flag tattoo would have been a bridge too far.<\/p>\n

Mr. Platner\u2019s Democratic primary voters continued to stand by him, despite follow-on revelations of \u2014 among other things \u2014 his online musings about masturbating in porta-potties and his admiration for penis graffiti on restroom stall walls.<\/p>\n

Not even credible accusations of physical abuse committed against girlfriends in the past and of sexting with other women after getting married eroded that fanatical support.<\/p>\n

That being the case, Mr. Platner\u2019s fellow Democratic candidates and officeholders \u2014 with one notable exception \u2014 held their tongues and continued to back his candidacy, despite baggage enough to fill the overhead bins of an airliner.<\/p>\n

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That was until Monday, when yet another former girlfriend went public in Politico and on CNN with a credible accusation of a drunken sexual assault by Mr. Platner in 2021. The difference this time was that the accuser is a like-minded liberal who said she supports his far-left political agenda \u2014 but not him.<\/p>\n

As such, it could not be dismissed as a partisan or ideological attack.<\/p>\n

Even Ms. Warren \u2014 once second only to socialist Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent, among Mr. Platner\u2019s loudest cheerleaders \u2014 said in a statement that Mr. Platner should \u201cstep aside as the Democratic nominee and address these serious allegations outside this Senate race.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a brief written statement Tuesday, Mr. Sanders concurred: \u201cIn light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Mr. Platner\u2019s polling in free fall, along with his chances of unseating Ms. Collins, Democrats are only now deserting the sinking ship, with several others withdrawing their endorsements.<\/p>\n

\u201cGraham Platner needs to immediately withdraw as the Democratic nominee for Senate and allow Maine Democrats the opportunity to choose a new candidate who can defeat Susan Collins,\u201d Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, both New York Democrats, said in a joint statement Monday.<\/p>\n

Despite the walls closing in on him, Mr. Platner continued to insist that the newest allegation is \u201ccategorically false,\u201d but added that his campaign is reflecting on \u201cthe best path forward,\u201d whatever that means.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins,\u201d he said in a video his campaign posted on X. \u201cThose were the goals we launched this campaign with, and they remain my goals today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, until now the only prominent Democrat to repudiate Mr. Platner, said flatly that Mr. Platner was \u201ca dead man walking, politically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, Maine Democrats cannot unilaterally remove Mr. Platner\u2019s name from the November ballot. Under state law, to replace him as their nominee, he has to withdraw from the race by July 13.<\/p>\n

If he does, they will huddle behind closed doors to select a replacement. It will be reminiscent of the way the national Democratic Party pooh-bahs in 2024 coronated Vice President Kamala Harris to replace President Biden as their presidential candidate \u2014 without any input from the party\u2019s rank-and-file voters.<\/p>\n

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Deja vu all over again, indeed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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