Hot Air

“Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible.’” —New York Times headline

Circling the Wagons

“Graham Platner may drop out. (I hope he doesn’t, but.)” —author Stephen King

“Congratulations to national media on politically assassinating Graham Platner. If he drops out and Democratic Party tries to give us two candidates who are both for Israel and corporate pacs, they’ll face a revolt like they’ve never seen.” —"The Young Turks" cohost Cenk Uygur

Re: The Left

“[Platner] had been vetted. … It was all out in the public, and people like Ro Khanna, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Tim Walz, The Bulwark, ‘Pod Save America’ — all these people came together to overlook it all, to explain it all, to rationalize it all. He was vetted; people knew all these things. And a whole bunch of Democrats in Maine showed up and voted for him anyway.” —Scott Jennings

“Platner is not an oddity. Last year, news broke that the Democrat candidate for attorney general in Virginia fantasized about conservative children dying in their mothers’ arms in order to teach conservatives a lesson. … The Democrat won by seven points. … Today’s Democrat Party is being overrun by Marxists and Islamists. They have made a pact with the devil because they want unbridled power over your life.” —Gary Bauer

“Platner is probably going to lose in November. That’s what really matters here. Frankly, that’s all that ever matters. This was always about power, is about power and will always be about power. If Democrats believed that Platner could still deliver a U.S. Senate seat in November, they’d be by his side, enthusiastic as ever before, frantically painting him as a progressive warrior who simply must be placed in Congress, no matter the cost.” —Ian Haworth

“With Tim Walz as their standard bearer, the young men of America swung by double digits to the Republican Party in the 2024 election. So, the Democrat Party set out to find normal white guys to run for office who could win them back. The result was Graham Platner and James Talarico.” —CJ Pearson

“Democrats did not stumble into Graham Platner. They went looking for him. For a decade, the party has been losing men — young men, blue-collar men, veterans, the guys who fix your truck and pour your beer. So the smart set decided they needed a man who could win those men back. … And when they went hunting for the most aggressively masculine figure they could find in a swing state, they landed on a Marine with a Nazi death’s-head tattooed over his heart. That should tell you something about how the modern left thinks masculinity works.” —Erick Erickson

“I’m beginning to conclude that the reason all the progressive white women are so neurotic and struggling with mental illness is that they surround themselves with men like Platner and Talarico, and that is who they think normal guys are.” —Erick Erickson

Belly Laugh of the Day

“Elizabeth Warren wants to retract her endorsement of Graham Platner but she doesn’t want to look like an Indian giver.” —Jimmy Failla