Just a heads up here at the top, we taped the interviews you're about to hear yesterday,

and things are moving really fast with the Graham-Platner story.

So there's a chance that by the time you listen, things will have shifted.

And of course, this episode deals with sexual violence, so take care.

Before Graham Platner's run for U.S. Senate became a complete mess, before we knew about the Nazi tattoo, before we knew about the questionable posts on Reddit, before the extramarital sexting,

or the accusations of dangerous behavior or finally the alleged sexual assault.

In Maine, there was something else. The town halls.

I mean, hundreds of people were being turned away at these town halls.

Lori Fleming was electrified by Grand Platner's Town Halls.

And the place that I saw him, it holds about 300 people and they turn people away.

He held that room in the palm of his hand.

I mean, he's just, he has so much charisma and he's,

he's clearly very, very smart. And he said to this roomful of people, nobody is coming to save us.

And it kind of sent chills through everyone, I think. And then there was much applause. And he said,

we're going to do this together. I called Lori up, because as I sorted through the latest

round of Platner News, I wanted to speak with someone like her about how we got here, how we reached the point where a guy with so many red flags finally flew one flag too many.

Lori gave money to Platner.

She was all signed up to Canvas for him, too.

And she was following the drip, drip, drip of bad news.

But none of it stuck until Monday when Politico ran its

interview with a former girlfriend of Platiners. She said five years ago, he showed up at her house,

drunk, and raped her. The end of that story was what really put me over the line.

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