Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has a breaking point — and he laid it out bluntly in a Wednesday night <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399969120112">sit-down</a> with Sean Hannity on Fox News. The outspoken Pennsylvania Democrat said there&#8217;s exactly one thing that could push him out of his own party: if Democrats formally declared, as part of their party platform, that Israel has no right to defend itself or exist.
“For me, what my real concern is the Democratic Party is going to and put it into the platform, you know, is an anti-Israel party, that Israel does not have the right to defend itself and to exist,” he declared. “And the second that becomes a formal part of our platform, that&#8217;s the one thing that would push me out of this party because I&#8217;m deeply alarmed the way the Democratic party is going after Israel and allowing rank antisemitism to just flourish in the Left on the campuses as well.”
Fetterman pointed to Colorado Democrat Melat Kiros, a socialist who won her primary over a 15-term incumbent earlier this week. Kiros recently dodged questions about a firebombing attack on Jewish demonstrators rallying for hostages. She also said 9/11 was the result of American foreign policy and argued that October 7 was “the inevitable consequence of apartheid.” That kind of rhetoric, Fetterman warned, is becoming disturbingly common on the Left and on college campuses — and if it ever gets codified into official Democratic policy, he&#8217;s out.
The Hannity appearance is just the latest chapter in Fetterman&#8217;s increasingly public break from his party&#8217;s mainstream on foreign policy. In June, he <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/06/fetterman-warns-trump-iran-deal-nuclear/">warned</a> that President Donald Trump might be tempted to accept a watered-down nuclear deal with Iran, one that leaves Tehran&#8217;s uranium stockpile intact. Fetterman has been the only Senate Democrat to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fetterman-says-theres-one-thing-trump-cant-afford-to-do-on-iran?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Fetterman+Says+There%E2%80%99s+One+Thing+Trump+Can%E2%80%99t+Afford+To+Do+On+Iran">oppose</a> every Iran war-powers resolution this year, arguing the president shouldn&#8217;t have his hands tied while the Iranian threat persists. He&#8217;s repeatedly praised recent strikes on Iran&#8217;s regime as effective and necessary, comparing negotiations with Tehran to trying to <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602207153">reason with cancer</a>.
In April, Fetterman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fetterman-issues-ultimatum-to-dems-israel-or-raging-anti-semites-like-hasan-piker?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Fetterman+Issues+Ultimatum+To+Dems%3A+Israel%2C+Or+%E2%80%98Raging+Anti-Semites%E2%80%99+Like+Hasan+Piker">went after</a> leftist streamer Hasan Piker by name, branding him a dangerous antisemite for saying he&#8217;d side with Hamas over Israel and for dismissing the terror group&#8217;s record of violence against civilians as beside the point. Fetterman demanded the party publicly distance itself from Piker&#8217;s brand of politics.
Back in March, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/baffled-by-his-partys-response-fetterman-cheers-trump-israel-as-they-pummel-iran-love-it?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Baffled%E2%80%99+By+His+Party%E2%80%99s+Response%2C+Fetterman+Cheers+Trump%2C+Israel+As+They+Pummel+Iran%3A+%E2%80%98Love+It%21%E2%80%99">broke ranks again</a> to praise the Trump administration&#8217;s joint strikes with Israel against Iranian leadership, saying he was mystified why colleagues wouldn&#8217;t celebrate the elimination of regime figures responsible for decades of oppression.
And in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-daily-wire-sits-down-with-john-fetterman-who-doesnt-hear-from-democrats-anymore?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+Daily+Wire+Sits+Down+With+John+Fetterman%2C+Who+Doesn%E2%80%99t+Hear+From+Democrats+Anymor">November interview</a> with The Daily Wire, Fetterman admitted he&#8217;s become something of an outcast within his own caucus — not a single Senate Democrat, he said, reached out after he urged his party to accept blame for the government shutdown. He noted bitterly that MSNBC has gone quiet on booking him since he started breaking from the party line, while conservative outlets have welcomed him.
Fetterman insists he isn&#8217;t going independent or flipping parties — he still considers himself a &#8220;regular Democrat.&#8221; But between his hawkish stance on Israel and Iran, his border security views, and his shutdown criticism, he acknowledges he now finds himself lining up more with Republicans than with his own leadership.

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A longtime Democrat senator’s bid to become governor of Colorado ended on Tuesday in another embarrassing defeat for the Democratic establishment. 
Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser upset Senator Michael Bennet to earn the Democratic nomination to replace outgoing Governor Jared Polis. With about 90% of the vote in by Wednesday morning, Weiser had 56% to Bennet’s 44%.
“We did it! Thank you to all who believed in this movement, donated, knocked on doors, hosted events, &amp; voted! Tonight it&#8217;s clear the future of CO doesn’t belong to out-of-state billionaires or corporations; it belongs to us. I promise to be a Governor for all of us,” Weiser’s campaign posted on X. “Thank you!”
Bennet, who has been in the Senate since 2009, had the backing of Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper and three of the state’s congressional representatives. He also had a significant financial edge over Weiser. 
Both candidates made attacking President Donald Trump a focal point of their campaigns. In his concession speech, Bennet continued to attack Trump. 
“Donald Trump has made matters so much worse. He is trying to convince Americans to hate each other just to serve his own selfish purposes,” he said. “Donald Trump, as I&#8217;ve said during the course of the campaign, is the worst president in American history.”
Weiser, who sued the Trump administration over 60 times during his time as state attorney general, says on his campaign page that he will “defend reproductive rights,” ensure “access to gender-affirming care,” and combat climate change. 
The Democrat is expected to win in November as Colorado has not elected a Republican governor in decades. Former Vice President Kamala Harris also defeated Trump in the state by over 10 points in 2024. 
Colorado’s primaries also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/socialist-hot-streak-continues-as-radical-leftist-unseats-15-term-democrat?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Brecca+Stoll&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Socialist+Hot+Streak+Continues+As+Radical+Leftist+Unseats+15-Term+Democrat">featured an upset</a> with far-Left Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeating longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) for the nomination in Colorado’s 1st congressional district. Kiros ran on a platform of abolishing ICE, jacking up corporate tax rates, and transitioning away from traditional policing. 
Hickenlooper, Bennet&#8217;s fellow Democrat senator, also performed poorly, but managed to fend off a leftist challenger by just 10 points.
The Colorado results come just one week after a number of Democratic socialists won in New York despite opposition from more traditional Democrats, causing panic in the party.

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New York Has Been Taken Over By The Communists. Your Town Might Be Next.

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Marxist political commentator Hasan Piker celebrated his favorite New York socialist candidates defeating moderate Democrats in the New York primary elections, held on Tuesday.
“It feels like were painting the town red tonight, ladies and gentlemen,” Piker <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2803627514">said</a> to his Twitch audience, celebrating wins from Darializa Chevalier, Claire Valdez, and Conrad Blackburn in “tonight’s unbelievable primary race.”
“I&#8217;m so happy to be able to share this incredible experience with all of you, here in the f*cking Commie Corridor — the tip of the spear of the American Socialist Movement — an absolute f*cking blowout,” Piker said.
Piker disowned and hurled expletives at some of the more moderate members of the Democratic Party, accusing them of selling out to big business and Israel.
Piker took aim at Brooklyn borough president Antonio Reynoso, calling him a “wonderful person&#8221; before pivoting to label him a “byproduct of the machine.” He then argued that Reynoso had come to his <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/03/pro-palestinian-pal-pac-endorses-claire-valdez-congress/412325/">anti-Israel position</a> — claiming that Israel was committing &#8220;genocide&#8221; in Gaza and calling for the United States to end all arms sales to the Jewish state — too late, and should be ousted from office because of it.
“And why do I say this?” Hasan added. “Becaasue Israel committed a genocide for two and a half years. And it took Reynoso to recognize that only after he was campaigning against the Commie Corridor. To me, a lot of people can smell the inauthenticity there.”
Piker also reserved harsh judgment for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), saying, “That b*tch right there — read it and f*cking weep, Hakeem!”
Piker also bragged about his own influence in the New York elections, saying that the phone bank he helped with for Chevalier had called some 90,000 people, allegedly swinging the election in the socialist candidate’s favor.
“After tonight, my price went up,” Piker said after learning the news. “You have to be a Democratic Socialist if you want some of this f*cking shine.”
Piker stated that the socialist victories in New York are ushering in “a decade of socialism” that is “coming to a neighborhood near you.”
“When I said we were going to let a thousand Zohrans bloom, this is what I meant,” Piker said. “And that’s because the American people are tired of the same old business as usual politics — the corruption, the ineptitude, the feckless nature of the Democrats that don’t want to fight back against the growth of fascism in this country. This is Americans fighting back. It’s only the beginning.” 
Piker later said that “hopefully we [The Democratic Socialists of America] won’t stop until we can elect socialists in every state and in every district.”
Not all of Piker’s New York endorsements won. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), one of Congress’s most outspoken supporters of Israel, easily <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/outspoken-zionist-dem-defeats-hasan-piker-backed-primary-challenger?row=0&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;rowType=Web+Search+Overlay">defeated</a> a Left-wing primary challenger Michael Blake, drawing an angry response from the streamer.
Piker has become known for his radical, violent rhetoric, such as saying that “America <a href="https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2048814928874655931">deserved</a> 9/11,” and <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2048217117221065201">calling on</a> his followers to “let the streets soak in their f*cking red capitalist blood.” He routinely praises and makes excuses for designated terrorist organizations — like Hamas and Hezbollah — while criticizing the United States and its allies.
He has also faced backlash over a lavish lifestyle that is in clear conflict with his anti-capitalist screeds. For instance, Piker received pushback from his fans and critics for wearing a $1,000 <a href="https://dexerto.com/entertainment/hasan-responds-to-backlash-over-his-1000-coachella-outfit-1807194/">Gucci shirt</a> at the 2022 Coachella music festival. 
He has also recently has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flashback-hasan-piker-admitted-to-colluding-with-cuban-regime-a-year-before-feds-investigated?row=0&amp;elementPosition=14&amp;rowType=Web+Search">subpoenaed</a> by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for his alleged collusion with the Cuban communist government.
Piker has also received some pushback for his radical positions. Piker was slated to speak at SXSW London when the British Home Office suddenly revoked his visa, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-dont-need-open-borders-for-bad-ideas-actually?row=0&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;rowType=Web+Search">stating</a> it would “not be conducive to the public good” for him to enter the country. Piker has also been barred from three Denver-area venues for his planned leftist rallies.

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Establishment Democrats fear an “earthquake” after far-Left socialist candidates swept the New York congressional primaries.
A trio of candidates, including two avowed democratic socialists, backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, defeated establishment-backed Democrats on Tuesday, igniting fears that the results could damage the party’s national image. 
&#8220;People who do not support the [Democratic Socialists of America] wring their hands at cocktail parties, while the DSA is organizing,&#8221; Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/06/24/mamdani-lander-valdez-chevalier-espaillat-goldman">told</a> Axios.   <iframe style="aspect-ratio: 9/16; max-width: 220px; display: flex; justify-content: center; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/T14HN0201QYUYI02CcBBjSmvi01zIj1NOm201?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=ae5c26cb-da6b-4b21-8bd1-2b9ee97dfae0&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=2026-6-24%20Fetterman%20scorches%20anti-American%20socialists%20&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2Ff20646d2-0136-4a89-bc8f-ca1de872dc36.png&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
&#8220;Economic insecurity, climate change, and immigrant injustice are all real problems, and alternative solutions must be offered,” he added. “It&#8217;s time for a great deal of hard work to out organize the extremists on the right and the left!&#8221;
Far-Left Democratic socialists Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier both declared victory in their respective primary races. Avila Chevalier is a self-described “prison abolitionist” and opposes deporting any illegal immigrants. The Mamdani-backed Brad Lander also defeated incumbent New York Rep. Dan Goldman. 
Rep. Greg Meeks (D-NY) described the outcome as a “tough night.” 
Another unidentified House Democrat told the outlet that the results were a &#8220;huge defeat” and could cause an “earthquake,” adding that “calling it a headache is an understatement.” 
&#8220;Appeasement doesn&#8217;t work. You have to be tough,” the House Democrat added. “Nancy Pelosi brought a machine gun to a knife fight. You can&#8217;t win with these guys by playing patty cake.&#8221;
Senior Democrats told Axios they were worried about the results. 
&#8220;Holy sh*t,&#8221; a senior House Democrat said. &#8220;Buckle up.&#8221;
Jaime Harrison, the former chair of the Democratic Party from 2021 to 2025, posted on X after the results were in that people who “hate” the Democratic Party should not run in its races. 
“I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination,” he <a href="https://x.com/harrisonjaime/status/2069570034868047996">said</a>. “Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign. Focus on building the party you actually support.” 
Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dirt-bag-left-trump-and-fetterman-respond-to-socialist-election-sweep?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98Dirt+Bag+Left%E2%80%99%3A+Trump+And+Fetterman+Respond+To+Socialist+Election+Sweep">decried</a> the results.
“It’s just been the dancing days of the dirtbag Left with some of these candidates [being] outrageous,” Fetterman <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399220644112">said</a> in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “You have candidates [who want to] abolish ICE, abolish the police, abolish the border.”

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There is a contest this year among Democrats to find the worst possible candidate for the general election. As a Republican, this is great news, as it should lead to Republican wins, but as an American, I am appalled.
This September marks the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and, were it not for brave patriots who overpowered hijackers and downed a fourth plane, the attempted attack on the U.S. Capitol or White House. Yet if you can believe it, the Democratic House candidate from New Jersey, Adam Hamawy, was affiliated with Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh&#8221; who attempted to take down the World Trade Center in 1993. Hamawy is <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/hasan-piker-democratic-primaries-00949340">backed by radical podcaster Hasan Piker</a>, as is Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race. Both are radical leftist candidates.
The Democratic candidate for Senate in North Carolina is Roy Cooper. As its former governor, he drew strong criticism for his <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/new-trial-over-cooper-s-covid-lockdowns-ordered-by-nc-supreme-court/22127718/">heavy-handed</a> COVID lockdowns and policies. Recently, it was reported that he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-dem-gov-hot-seat-complete-failure-insane-early-release-thousands-inmates">released violent criminals</a> before their sentences were up with a secret agreement with the NAACP. Many of those released criminals reoffended. Decarlos Brown, who slashed the neck of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska as she rode the train in Charlotte, was on that early release list.
Next, look at Texas State Rep. James Talarico’s comments about God, made in the Texas legislature and from the pulpit, which are totally out of the mainstream. He has said, “God is non-binary … God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.” On the border, he suggests the U.S. should have a “welcome mat.” In a deeply traditional Christian and America’s most border-y border state, these are not Texas values. They’re also not American values.
Then there’s Graham Platner. No doubt Democrat party leaders searched high and low for anybody, anybody else to run for U.S. Senate in Maine. Some say the Democrats’ only chance to take control of the U.S. Senate is to <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2026/democrats-weigh-whether-a-senate-majority-is-possible-without-platner">flip Maine’s Senate seat</a>. It’s been almost fun watching national Democratic leaders squirm, hesitate, and contort themselves into knots while trying to explain their support for this lunatic.
Platner, until recently, had a Nazi SS tattoo (and most likely knew <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/platner-democrats-furious-new-york-times-report-00951496">it was when he got it</a>), has made racist and <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/politics/2025/10/23/platner-sounds-off-on-controversial-past-at-ogunquit-rally">homophobic</a> comments, has <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/graham-platners-wife-flagged-sexually-explicit-texts-to-his-senate-campaign-628ec832">sent sexually explicit texts</a> to multiple women, is on a social media platform that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/platner-still-has-active-account-anonymous-app-dubbed-predators-paradise-amid-cheating-scandal">seeks out underage girls</a>, and has allegedly been <a href="https://apnews.com/article/senate-election-graham-platner-susan-collins-a07b35d03ee1acc419471c048572b065">violent with past girlfriends</a>. He has intimated that <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/politics/2026/03/18/in-maine-senate-primary--platner-responds-to-mills--ad-highlighting-past-comments-on-sexual-assault">rape victims deserve</a> what they get, has spoken <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/left-wing-dem-senate-hopeful-cheered-antifa-violence-unearthed-rant-kill-motherf-er">in favor of political violence</a> as a means to an end, and has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-platner-doesnt-apologize-purple-heart-recipient-voters-when-confronted-post-mocking-soldier">disparaged veterans</a>.
To add insult to injury, he claims that he said these things in a “dark” period of his life and attributed them to PTSD from his time in the military. As if insulting and devaluing women isn’t enough, he insinuates PTSD is an excuse for his bad behavior and vile words. Understandably, this has incensed many veterans.
There was a time not long ago when these types of behaviors and comments would have elicited calls for cancellation by party leaders, yet Platner’s have been glossed over by supporters like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA). Their hypocrisy is off the charts. Whatever happened to “Believe all women”? Eric Swalwell must be kicking himself, thinking he caved too soon.
Democrats’ support of Platner is insulting to women. Women voters in Maine, unless they have an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, should be running as fast as they can toward Maine’s moderate Republican incumbent Susan Collins.
Platner campaigns with the party’s backing as its official candidate, and it seems Maine’s Democratic voters are sticking with their man. Still, there are whispers that even more salacious allegations are to come. If the Democrats do end up dumping him, it will only be when they become convinced he will lose.
These horrible candidates now constitute the Democrat Party’s norm. They’re radical, corrupt, indecent, and just plain strange — poster children for a party that has completely lost its moral compass. Some are socialists. Some are opportunists. Some are both. But they are all products of a Democratic Party that has decided winning matters more than decency, and ideology matters more than the Constitution.
It is time for Americans to reject these candidates and the un-American values they peddle before they get the chance to act on them. We have a Tricentennial to celebrate in 2076. Let&#8217;s make sure we get there. God Bless America.
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Martha Jenkins is president of the <a href="https://www.nfrw.org/">National Federation of Republican Women</a>.

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A bitter public feud between Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is exposing growing fractures within the Democratic Party as left-wing activists and establishment figures increasingly find themselves at odds ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The latest clash erupted Sunday when Platner, speaking at a town hall in Maine, referred to Fetterman with a profanity while discussing lawmakers he would potentially work alongside in Washington. &#8220;The Senate really is a place of relationships,&#8221; Platner <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/platner-calls-fetterman-a-hole-town-hall-democratic-feud-heats-up">told supporters</a>. &#8220;You can&#8217;t just go down there and be John Fetterman and just sort of be an a**hole.&#8221;
When audience members reacted, Platner doubled down, adding, &#8220;He&#8217;s said mean things about me, I&#8217;m allowed to say that.&#8221;
The comments marked the latest escalation in a war of words that has increasingly become a proxy battle over the future direction of the Democratic Party.
Fetterman has emerged as one of Platner&#8217;s most vocal Democratic critics in recent weeks, repeatedly attacking the Maine progressive over a growing list of controversies that have dogged his Senate campaign. The Pennsylvania senator has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/politics/graham-platner-senate-democrats-maine">referred</a> to Platner as a &#8220;creeper,&#8221; questioned his past conduct, and accused fellow Democrats of overlooking behavior they would ordinarily condemn.
&#8220;What kind of a creeper has spent a decade on a platform like Kik, and send a dozen explicit kinds of messages and who knows what else?&#8221; Fetterman said during a recent CNN interview. In another appearance, Fetterman argued that Democrats were supporting Platner primarily because of party loyalty rather than enthusiasm for the candidate himself. &#8220;If they&#8217;d just be honest, they&#8217;d say, &#8216;Well, the only thing I can say about him is, well, he&#8217;s a Democrat,'&#8221; Fetterman <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/politics/video/fetterman-roasts-maines-dem-senate-candidate">said</a>. &#8220;He&#8217;s not really technically a Democrat — in his own words, he said, &#8216;I&#8217;m a communist socialist.'&#8221;
Platner has fired back repeatedly, accusing Fetterman of abandoning progressive principles and aligning himself with more moderate and pro-Israel factions within the party. Over the weekend, Platner <a href="https://x.com/grahamformaine/status/2063395224592761326">wrote</a> on X that Fetterman had become &#8220;a stooge for AIPAC and the Republican Party,&#8221; highlighting one of the major ideological fault lines driving the dispute.
The increasingly personal nature of the conflict comes as Fetterman himself has become a controversial figure among many leftists due to his strong support for Israel, criticism of anti-Israel activists, and willingness to break with fellow Democrats on several high-profile issues.
While Democratic leaders have largely attempted to focus attention on defeating Republicans in November, the Fetterman-Platner fight underscores deeper tensions simmering beneath the surface. Those divisions pit an ascendant hard-left contingent that embraces democratic socialism and confrontational politics against more moderate Democrats who argue the party risks alienating voters through ideological purity tests and controversial candidates.
The dispute could also offer an early preview of broader battles expected to intensify ahead of the 2028 presidential election. As Democrats search for a post-Biden identity, competing factions within the party are increasingly wrestling over questions of ideology, messaging, foreign policy, and the type of candidates they want representing the party on the national stage.
For now, those disagreements are playing out in Maine, where Platner remains the heavy favorite to secure his party&#8217;s Senate nomination. But the increasingly public feud with Fetterman suggests that even if Democrats remain united against Republicans at the ballot box, unity within the party itself may prove far more difficult to maintain.
If Platner wins the nomination and advances to a general election showdown against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, Democrats may face a difficult balancing act: defending a candidate embraced by the party&#8217;s left-wing grassroots while answering questions raised by one of their own sitting senators.

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Fetterman Vs. Platner: The Democrat Civil War Is Getting Ugly

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A fierce ideological civil war has erupted within the Democratic Party over the candidacy of Graham Platner, who is running for a Senate seat in Maine.
The deep-seated factional split was thrust into the national spotlight during a contentious segment on CNN hosted by Abby Phillip. The debate exposed a glaring double standard as establishment figures and Democratic strategists locked horns over how to handle a baggage-laden candidate with a Nazi tattoo, sexually explicit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-graham-platner-has-active-profile-on-predators-paradise-messaging-app">messaging scandals</a>, and regressive comments on race and gender.
The rift became clear during an exchange between former Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-SC) and Democratic strategist Yemisi Egbewole. Cunningham epitomized the pragmatic, win-at-all-costs wing of the party, shrugging off Platner&#8217;s mounting personal liabilities. First, he mocked the GOP, saying, “I&#8217;ll withhold my comments about, you know, the Republican Party having — you know, speaking from the high ground of moral clarity, which I don&#8217;t believe that they do considering the candidates that are running this cycle under the Republican banner.”

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He then argued, “You know, Democrats right now just want a candidate who can, you know, speak plain English, and communicate to voters and be authentic, and talk about issues that resonate with people, not, you know, these obtuse issues, like whether it be like, you know, save democracy, and so vague.”
Egbewole, however, dismantled this narrative, delivering a devastating rebuke to the leftist establishment, as she stated:
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I think we&#8217;ve lost the plot on authenticity. I think Graham Platner is cosplaying working class. He wears it like a Halloween costume, and that has been placed on him by the same people who have run a lot of progressive candidates across the nation.
In this pursuit of getting to know the everyman, we keep picking these people who I think show the worst parts of society. If I am to believe that Graham Platner can relate to everyday Americans, then that means I am to believe that everyday Americans are okay with Nazi tattoos because they get them accidentally when they&#8217;re drunk. Or because they served in the military, they have very regressive views on race and on gender. I just cannot accept the fact that to gain the working class, we have to dress up people who show the lowest of our values.</blockquote>
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Democrat Strategist Yemisi Egbewole TORCHES Graham Platner:
“We have lost the plot on authenticity. To think Graham Platner is cosplaying working class. He wears it like a Halloween costume, and that has been placed on him by the same people who have run a lot of progressive… <a href="https://t.co/C4Rrq3wnIO">pic.twitter.com/C4Rrq3wnIO</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/2061643458549281249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2026</a></blockquote>
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CNN host Abby Phillip further fueled the intraparty division by seemingly trying to downplay Platner&#8217;s actions, attempting to frame them as no worse than the controversies surrounding Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. Phillip noted that despite the &#8220;drip, drip&#8221; of scandals, voters in Maine have actually made Platner more popular, suggesting that Democrats are now doing exactly what they have accused Republicans of doing since 2016: shrugging off personal scandal.
However, this attempt to establish moral equivalence between Platner and Paxton was quickly shut down by former New York City Republican councilman Joe Borelli. Borelli forcefully illuminated the critical difference between the two men, pointing out that Paxton was acquitted by the Texas Senate of the corruption and bribery charges brought against him while Platner still faces ongoing scandals.
&#8220;To be clear, I think the Nazi tattoo is disqualifying. I think the idea that women are responsible for their own rapes is completely disqualifying and he should be punched in the face, to be frank with you. I mean, that&#8217;s an appalling thing to say,&#8221; Borelli said.
Ultimately, the segment laid bare a Democratic Party in crisis, caught between Egbewole’s refusal to sacrifice basic morality for political expediency and an establishment willing to embrace anyone to win.

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‘Cosplaying Working Class’: Dem Strategist Highlights Party’s Big Graham Platner Problem

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What the Democrats are doing in Maine is totally insane.
Graham Platner is the Senate Democratic candidate in Maine. He has a Nazi tattoo; he wrote on public Reddit threads about how happy he was that an American soldier had been shot; he has posted repeatedly about how he likes to pleasure himself in porta-potties; he has been exposed in a sexting scandal.
But Democrats say that you must vote for him to stop Susan Collins.
Susan Collins is the most moderate GOP member of the United States Senate; I agree with her roughly 65% of the time.
She voted to convict Donald Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial. She voted against the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act. She sank the Affordable Care Act repeal bill in 2017. She even blocked it from going through. She&#8217;s one of three Republicans who voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in 2022.
But Democrats say you have to vote for Platner to stop her.
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Graham Platner is a fake oyster farmer from Maine who had a privileged upbringing, volunteered for the United States military, and then decided to crap on his fellow troops when he came back.
Platner’s wife, Amy Gardner, who married him in 2023, told a senior campaign aide that her husband had been exchanging sexual messages with multiple other women.
It&#8217;s worse than that. The Daily Wire&#8217;s Tim Rice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-graham-platner-has-active-profile-on-predators-paradise-messaging-app?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=SEE+IT%3A+Graham+Platner+Has+Active+Profile+On+%E2%80%98Predator%E2%80%99s+Paradise%E2%80%99+Messaging+App">reported</a> that Platner has an active profile on the messaging app Kik, known as &#8220;predator&#8217;s paradise.&#8221; Rice reported, “The National Center on Sexual Exploitation deems the anonymous messaging app a ‘predator’s paradise,’ thanks to a number of features that allow underage users to join the app and communicate with adults.”
The report continued:
<blockquote>A <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/08/03/kik-has-a-massive-child-abuse-problem/#53f0fc31a142">Forbes investigation</a> found that Kik had a “huge child exploitation problem,” while the BBC found that the app was at the center of over <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45568276">1,100 child sexual abuse cases</a> in the United Kingdom between 2013 and 2018.
But even among consenting adult users, Kik is no ordinary messenger. The platform has been <a href="https://www.wave3.com/2025/10/23/messaging-app-allegedly-used-louisville-sex-crimes-case-described-predators-paradise/">described</a> as “the app with the most severe sexual content.” Kik offers sexually explicit live chats with women, and is often found at the center of “sexploitation” cases, wherein predators coax someone to send nude photos, and then use the images for blackmail, the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/us/social-media-apps-anonymous-kik-crime.html">reported</a> in 2016.</blockquote>
Seventy percent of users on the app are between the ages of 13 and 24. Platner only deactivated his profile in the last couple of days.
The Democrats are insisting you must vote for the National Socialist with the sexting problem to stop Susan Collins.
I don&#8217;t want to hear any more from Democrats or anyone supporting this kind of garbage about Republicans having a moderation problem.
It&#8217;s ridiculous. Graham Platner is running against Susan Collins, who has long been the bugaboo of the traditional Republican Party. It’s better to have her there than a Democrat —  but only by a marginal amount.
She votes on major issues with the Democrats a significant percentage of the time, but Democrats still argue that you should vote for the ambulatory psychotic who has to routinely visit counseling so he doesn&#8217;t randomly sext women in Maine.
Wacko Connecticut Senate Democrat Chris Murphy said on Face the Nation:
<blockquote>I have not followed this story as closely as others have, but I mean, Graham Platner is somebody that served our country. He served his community. He&#8217;s also made mistakes. And he has admitted that. Character also involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country. And this race is going to be a contrast between somebody that has put his life on the line for this country, against somebody that is literally empowering the moral hollowing out of our nation from the White House.</blockquote>
The idea is, “We must defend this guy no matter what because — Trump.”
Once you&#8217;re in this mode, there are no limits.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is getting roasted online after an obscene verbal slip-up during a live mayoral debate became one of the night’s most viral moments.
The awkward exchange happened while Bass was defending her administration’s handling of the catastrophic Palisades fires that devastated parts of Los Angeles earlier this year.
“Was that a mistake?” the moderator immediately asked as Bass stumbled through the response. Attempting to explain problems with the city’s emergency response, Bass appeared to accidentally say “fire f*cks” instead of “fire trucks” before quickly correcting herself.
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Clips of the moment spread rapidly across social media, where critics mocked the mayor for looking flustered and unprepared during one of the most high-profile debates of the race so far.
The gaffe came during an especially rough night for Bass, who repeatedly found herself on defense over Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis, public safety concerns, and the city’s wildfire response. Several moments during the debate saw Bass interrupted or forced into lengthy explanations as challengers pressed her on the city’s ongoing problems.
Much of the criticism centered on Bass attempting to blame former Fire Chief Kristin Crowley for staffing issues during the deadly fires. Bass argued that firefighters had been sent home before conditions spiraled out of control — a claim that immediately sparked backlash online from critics accusing the mayor of trying to shift responsibility.
The debate quickly turned combative as frustration over the condition of Los Angeles dominated the discussion. Questions about rising crime, drug addiction, homelessness encampments, and taxpayer spending repeatedly put Bass on the defensive throughout the night.
Political observers noted that Bass often appeared tense and struggled to regain control during several exchanges as the audience reacted loudly to attacks over the city’s decline.
The viral debate performance now adds even more pressure to Bass as anger continues to build over the direction of Los Angeles ahead of the June 2 mayoral election.

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President Donald Trump commented on the federal charges facing the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) early Friday morning, arguing that the leftist group&#8217;s potential fraud &#8220;is another Democrat Hoax&#8221; that places the 2020 election results into doubt.
Trump made the comment in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116457972455781406">post</a> on Truth Social, marking the first time he has publicly addressed the allegations against the SPLC, which was charged earlier this week with multiple counts of wire fraud over its scheme to pay the leaders of multiple white supremacist groups in exchange for information.
&#8220;The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the greatest political scams in American History, has been charged with FRAUD. This is another Democrat Hoax, along with Act Blue, and many others,&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;If it is true, the 2020 Presidential Election should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter.&#8221;
The SPLC, which started in the 1970s as an organization to push back against racism and segregation in the South, has been paying leaders of extremist groups for decades, according to an indictment unsealed by the Justice Department on Tuesday. The indictment states that the SPLC secretly used donor cash to pay so-called informants affiliated with racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, over $3 million between 2014 and 2023.
The SPLC is closely aligned with Democratic Party goals and talking points and has a political action fund that almost exclusively <a href="https://www.splcactionfund.org/endorsements/">endorses</a> Democrats in state and local elections in the South.
Between 2015 and 2023, the SPLC <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lefty-anti-hate-group-paid-white-supremacist-to-plan-infamous-charlottesville-rally-indictment">paid</a> a member of a white supremacist group that planned the &#8220;Unite the Right&#8221; rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, according to the indictment. The rally, which turned deadly when a man drove his car through a crowd of counter protesters, became the main reason behind former President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 election campaign. Biden pointed to the rally in his campaign announcement video, pinning blame on Trump and saying, “In that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.”
The SPLC has also engaged in a campaign to label mainstream conservatives as &#8220;extremists&#8221; and has used its influence to pressure social media companies and the federal government to censor conservative voices. The SPLC was used as a resource by the FBI to identify extremists before FBI Director Kash Patel cut the bureau’s ties with the leftist organization last year.
In his post on Friday morning, Trump also called out Democratic Party fundraising platform ActBlue, which is under scrutiny over accusations that it allowed foreign contributions in American elections. Trump maintains that he was the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election, which Biden won by over 70 electoral votes amid major controversy over mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting methods.

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Democrats in Michigan nominated a Muslim attorney who has honored terrorists for a position on the University of Michigan&#8217;s Board of Regents.
At the Michigan Democratic Party&#8217;s nominating convention on Sunday night, delegates chose Amir Makled over incumbent regent Jordan Acker for a seat on the board that controls the university&#8217;s budget and leadership appointments, The Detroit News <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/19/jordan-acker-university-of-michigan-board-of-regents-amir-makled-wins-democratic-convention-vote/89691921007/">reported</a>. The contrast in the race could not have been clearer for Democratic delegates, who ultimately picked a Muslim who recently shared a post that referred to Israelis as &#8220;demons&#8221; over a Jewish regent who has faced antisemitic attacks.
Last June, Makled <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/04/09/university-of-michigan-regent-candidate-lawyer-amir-makled-deletes-posts-praising-hezbollah-leaders/89533176007/">shared</a> a post that called former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah a &#8220;martyr,&#8221; less than a year after Nasrallah was taken out in an Israeli airstrike. Another post shared by Makled honored Hezbollah official Abu Ali Khalil as a &#8220;martyr on the road to Jerusalem.&#8221;
In July 2025, Makled shared a post from Candace Owens, in which Owens referred to Israelis as &#8220;demons&#8221; who &#8220;lie, steal, cheat, murder, and blackmail.&#8221; The Muslim lawyer has since deleted those social media posts.
Makled secured the nomination over Acker, who has faced antisemitic threats from anti-Israel radicals following Hamas&#8217; attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. In December of 2024, Acker&#8217;s home was vandalized and damaged, and his wife&#8217;s car was spray painted with the words &#8220;Divest&#8221; and &#8220;Free Palestine.&#8221; Anti-Israel radicals also vandalized Acker&#8217;s law firm building, which police investigated as a hate crime, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/09/us/university-of-michigan-regents-vandalized-acker">reported</a>.
Last year, Acker, along with regents Mark Bernstein and Sarah Hubbard, were given 24/7 security due to threats from anti-Israel demonstrators. Makled represented anti-Israel students who were arrested and charged last year with trespassing and resisting arrest when police broke up an encampment on Michigan&#8217;s campus.
The nomination of Makled over Acker reflects a major shift in the Democratic Party throughout the country, which has seen multiple leftist Muslims elected to public office. That shift is on full display in Michigan this year as another leftist Muslim, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, is in a tight race for the Democratic nomination to the open seat for U.S. Senate. El-Sayed <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/19/politics/michigan-senate-democratic-primary">told</a> CNN over the weekend that Hamas is just as evil as the Israeli government.
The Michigan Democratic Party did not release the vote tally for Sunday&#8217;s nominating convention. For many statewide offices in Michigan, the Democratic Party chooses its nominees through delegates who meet to cast their votes at a nominating convention. Acker&#8217;s ticket-mate, Paul Brown, who has also called for punishment for anti-Israel demonstrators, was renominated to run alongside Makled in the general election.
Makled rode a wave of support from leftist University of Michigan students and campus labor unions to his nomination victory.
“This is beyond the support that I was expecting,” Makled <a href="https://www.michigandaily.com/news/administration/amir-makled-defeats-regent-jordan-acker-at-democratic-convention-to-run-alongside-incumbent-paul-brown/">said</a> after he was nominated. “This is the largest convention I’ve participated in in 20 years, and I’ve been coming to them since 2006. This really shows how much the Democratic Party has expanded the electorate and energized the base of what people want to see come November.”
Makled will face Republicans Lena Epstein and Michael Schostak in the general election on November 3.
Not all Democrats were enthused by Makled&#8217;s candidacy. Brandon Dillon, a former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, blasted Makled and <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2026/04/17/dillon-the-democratic-party-has-no-room-for-amir-makled/89665735007/">wrote</a> in a Detroit News opinion piece that Makled&#8217;s social media posts &#8220;reflect a pattern of extremism and bigotry, all of which should be disqualifying for someone seeking one of the most powerful positions in Michigan higher education and statewide office.&#8221;
Acker faced opposition from Makled and many within the Michigan Democratic Party for his desire to hold anti-Israel radicals accountable after they intimidated Jewish students and obstructed law enforcement officers. Acker also faced scrutiny just a few days before the Democratic nominating convention when The Guardian published a report on alleged messages sent by Acker on Slack that appeared to be sexual in nature and included obscene comments about a female Michigan student.
Acker said that parts of the messages sent to The Guardian appeared to be &#8220;doctored,&#8221; adding that Acker &#8220;has never been on Slack.&#8221; Acker told The Detroit News that the allegations published in The Guardian are &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; and &#8220;fake.&#8221;

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