Tara Palmeri and Stuart Stevens covered a lot of ground, starting with Graham Platner's overdue exit from the U.S. Senate race. Stuart delivered a blunt message that his only path to any future is helping elect a Democrat in Maine. As for Trump's defense of Platner, Stuart called it predictable since they both belong to “the brotherhood of sexual harassers.”
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They discussed Trump’s E. Jean Carroll payout, Mitch McConnell's mysterious hospitalization, Trump’s Qatari plane fiasco, and the Republican Party's complete abandonment of any coherent governing philosophy.
Stuart's takeaway: the GOP never actually believed any of it — the values were always marketing slogans, and Trump just proved it.
