MeToo Democrats like AOC and Warren mum on Platner sex scandal while Schumer plots damage control

Top female Congressional Dems who have built careers championing abuse victims have kept conspicuously quiet about scandal-scarred lefty Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner — even as Minority Leader Chuck Schumer scrambles to contain the damage before the party loses its shot to win the chamber this fall.Lefty warrior Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens/Bronx) — who once revealed she was a survivor of sex assault — had nothing to say about married Platner’s alleged physical abuse of girlfriends, his sexting other women while married, or his fantasies about raping intruders.“I have to read up on this latest reporting,” the Squad member waffled, when asked about Platner.

“I don’t want to speak until I’ve dug into what’s out there.”Lefty Sen.Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) minimized questions as to whether party leaders should step in and “referee” the mess involving Platner — who was accused in a New York Times story of physical abuse and locking a former girlfriend in a bedroom.

“Referee what? That’s up to the people of Maine,” Warren told The Post, days after she joined a meeting of party elders who grilled Platner about any further potential revelations.Sen.Mazie Hirono (D-HI) told the men of the country to “just shut up and step up” and “do the right thing for a change” when Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was grilled over high school assault allegations during his 2018 confirmation hearings.But she demurred on Platner, who is trying to unseat longtime Republican incumbent Sen.

Susan Collins.“It’s mainly a voter thing that the people of Maine are going to have to decide how they think about these factors,” she said. “I’m leaving Maine up to Mainers — I’m not weighing in,” said Sen.

Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), who has pursued answers about “decades long” sexual assault in the US Coast Guard.“I think inappropriate sexual behavior is wrong, no matter who does it, but it’s up to the voters to de...