Democrats are trying to find men who can seem the most: seem like a pastor, seem like a working man.
In Maine, Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner is mired in scandal as evidence of his horrible judgment keeps oozing into the public eye. In Texas, Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico seems like a space alien who’s trying to play a human on television.
The Democrats have elevated terrible candidates in a critical election year.
It’s not a surprise. To understand Platner and Talarico, understand Machaela Cavanaugh and Haley Stevens.
Cavanaugh, a Democrat state senator in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature, famously shut down much of a legislative session in 2023 by filibustering every bill over her opposition to a bill to end transgender child mutilation procedures. Finally allowing trans-focused legislation on puberty blockers and youth sports to reach the floor, she warned that the votes would be preserved in the legislative record: “I want the bloody hands recorded. This is a genocide.”