CNN Panelist: Ignore Platner Sexting Scandal, Skip ‘Purity Culture’
Mark Finkelstein
June 2nd, 2026 8:23 AM
On Monday’s edition of CNN This Morning, a panel discussing the Senate race in Maine featured Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D-Md.) defending scandal-plagued candidate Graham Platner. While admitting that Platner's scandals would give him pause as a voter, Olszewski quickly pivoted to attacking incumbent Senator Susan Collins. She "isn't doing enough to stand up to Dnald Trump and his corruption."
Are we talking about the same Republican senator who voted to convict President Trump in his second impeachment trial, Congressman?
Olszewski claimed "I'm looking for candidates who address cost and corruption, and that's something Mr. Platner is doing, notwithstanding the concerns."
Riiiight.
CNN panelist and TikTok babbler V. Spehar then weighed in, agreeing with the freshman congressman: "We need to be talking about what we're gonna do for people, not what any kind of scandal coming up is, because there's so much getting lost in the conversations that we're having if we're trying to police, and do purity culture on every single candidate, and that's kind of an issue."
Great point, V! Because the Democrats and the liberal media haven't spent years obsessing over every real and imagined scandal involving Donald Trump, or literally policing him, right down to mug shots and multiple criminal trials. Oh, wait.
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