Dem Senate Hopeful's Disturbing Reaction to the 9/11 Terrorists

3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Join Jim and Greg for the Tuesday 3 Martini Lunch as they serve up three disturbing but important martinis. They dig into a Democratic Senate candidate’s shocking post-9/11 comments, the latest grim polling in the New York City mayor’s race, and the sharp cultural divide between pro-Trump and pro-Kamala Gen Z voters.

First, they react to reports that Maine Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner wrote in 2002 that we should try to understand the motivations of the 9/11 terrorists because "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." Platner was in high school at the time and subsequently served four overseas deployments as a U.S. Marine. But he is also publicly touting his student activism as part of his campaign. He is also strongly anti-Israel and enthusiastically aligns himself with Bernie Sanders.

Next, Jim and Greg recoil at the latest New York Times/Siena College poll showing socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani with a commanding lead in the New York City mayor’s race. While numbers tighten in a hypothetical two-person race, it's not a two-person race. They also wince at Mamdani's recent comments about why he wants government-run grocery stores, when they have a long track record of failure.

Finally, they go through the numbers of an NBC News poll, as Gen Z men who voted for President Trump have much different and much more traditional ideas of what constitutes success compared to Gen Z women who voted for Kamala Harris. The differences are especially stark on whether marriage and children are a big part of being successful.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the three martini lunch.
0:05.0	Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.6	Three martini's coming up.
0:14.1	So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch.
0:17.6	So many different things to get to today.
0:19.2	We're going to be talking a little bit about campaign 2026. The Democrats think they've found their guy to take down Susan Collins. Graham Platner is his name, but Graham Platner is not your run-of-the-mill Democrat. But as we're learning, a lot of Democrats these days aren't run-of-the-mill Democrats, including Zohran Mundani, got some new polling out of New York City to take a look at both in a four-way race and a two-man race, if it's him head-to-head against
0:42.3	Andy Cuomo, as Curtis Sleeva called him, a couple of weeks ago.
0:46.5	And then an interesting poll on what matters most to Gen Z men and Gen Z women.
0:52.4	The divide is pretty significant, about as significant as it was between who they picked for
0:57.1	President of the United States.
0:58.4	So a lot to get into there, Jim.
1:00.8	What's got you most excited today?
1:02.5	There are two things I love, Greg.
1:04.3	First is being told that this Democratic candidate that I've never heard of is going to
1:08.2	knock off a Republican senator who has won every
1:12.3	re-election bid, crushes all opponents, sits on a throne of skulls. And I also like giving
1:18.7	young people advice. Not that they like taking it, not that they like hearing it, but I think
1:22.6	you and I are going to have some thoughts to share on this one coming up later today. Yeah,
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