Catastrophic senate candidate finally recognizes the obvious

I don’t know if it counts as “doing the right thing” when you do it in the kindest construction 2 and a half days after you should have, but Graham Platner has finally decided that it’s not worth giving away a Senate seat for his own ego:

Democratic nominee Graham Platner said he would suspend his campaign for Senate in Maine, ending a run that had drawn broad grassroots support but was plagued by controversy.

Platner announced his exit in a video Wednesday night, in which he blamed the media and political establishment for acting as “judge, jury and executioner” and continued to fiercely deny the allegations against him.

The decision came several days after a woman he was romantically involved with publicly alleged that he sexually assaulted her. The allegation, which Platner denied, prompted top Senate lawmakers and close allies to rescind their endorsements, cut off funding and call for him to drop out.

Democrats are scrambling to find a backup candidate in what they see as a must-win race against Republican Sen. Susan Collins, with a deadline later this month to put a new name on the ballot. The Democratic State Committee of Maine announced Wednesday that it would hold a nominating convention, but it didn’t lay out details of who would attend or what the threshold for winning the nomination would be set.

This is the lack of graciousness I would expect but at this point I don’t care as long as Maine Dems have the chance to nominate a candidate who could beat Collins, and there are multiple attractive options.

Platner’s narcissism and the self-dealing of the advisors trying to run an extortion racket did give time for some degenerate DUDE PROCESS guys to reveal themselves again:

We have a loooong way to go here.