"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin dug into the Democratic Party over the "botched" vetting of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on Wednesday as he remains embroiled in several scandals, including sexual abuse allegations.Co-host Sunny Hostin said that Platner needed to get out of the race because Democrats needed to flip the Senate."I’m just struck by how Dems botched this so badly though, because, to your point, the path to Dems taking the Senate, I think, always ran through Maine," Griffin said. "That was always going to be one of the important pickup seats.They had six years to recruit against Susan Collins and to vet somebody and to look into their past statements, to look into the tattoos that they might have.
I mean, listen, Texas just nominated a lunatic in Ken Paxton, so it’s not like the other party isn’t guilty of this as well.But when the stakes are so high, and when the path to the Senate runs through this, how were they not able to find this?" she asked.PLATNER’S THREE-DAY VETTING JOB COMES BACK TO HAUNT DEMS AS RAPE ALLEGATION ROCKS SENATE BIDAlyssa Farah Griffin, co-host of ABC's "The View," speaks during the show on July 7, 2026.
(ABC/TheView)She continued, "And this is where I think consultants did know.I think that a lot of people who are making a lot of money around him knew.
There were whispers, now there's reports, but that he had issues with women and people kept saying, ‘No, no, no, look away,’" Griffin said.Whoopi Goldberg argued people knew about Platner and said the hosts had discussed it."You know what, I don’t know — given what’s happened just in our world right now, how the country — who’s in charge of it, I think people held their nose and said, ‘I’m going to take a step,’" she said.Goldberg said people vote for flawed candidates despite allegations such as these.FORGET CORRUPTION: FROM GRAHAM PLATNER TO KEN PAXTON, BOTH PARTIES EMBRACE THE POLITICS OF HYPOCRISYThe hosts agreed as Griffin argued...